P a p u a N e w G u i n e a ' s (P N G) blunder

Just before the Holy Week, our agency said that our employment contract for P N G (P a p u a N e w G u i n e a) had arrived, only to be returned back due to some discrepancies. The contract stipulated a wrong number of years of employment and the salary was not the agreed one. Now, it's another waiting time. It's been a month since the wrong contract was sent, but still we are in this dilemma. We are a total of 9 IT specialists waiting for the contract. Five are Oracle developers, two are network administrators, and two are Oracle database administrators (including me with a senior position).

I have read that P N G government has a notorious bureaucracy. One forum site said that even those Chinese workers already in the mining field in P N G had to wait six months for the work permits to be issued. Another site mentioned that even missionaries waited more than six months for their visas to be issued. Is this the kind of government that I will be dealing with in the next chapter of my life? Am I ready to deal with this kind of bureaucracy? I will be working with P N G's Department of Finance, and being a future government employee, I will be part of this bureaucracy. Tsk, tsk. But I hate this kind of slow-paced processing of papers. Grrr. If not for the juicy offer, I would not have waited this long. Luckily, all of my future colleagues are still willing to wait. According to them, the fortunes that we'll be receiving are worth the wait. Probably, that's the reason why P N G is hiring a lot of IT specialists to improve its processes.

Lord, please give me more patience.