{"id":1847,"date":"2014-06-06T11:05:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T11:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2026-09-04T15:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:22:08","slug":"aquarius-featuring-jared-counsellor-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/aquarius-featuring-jared-counsellor-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Authentic Living in Dubai: Counsellor Jared Alden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Jared is working as a counsellor in Dubai at the German Neuroscience Center<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Story by Louisa Wilkins, Aquarius Magazine, 5 May 2014<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Keeping up with the Jumeirah Jane\u2019s &#8211; featuring Jared Alden, counsellor in Dubai<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1848\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Best-counsellor-in-dubai-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"Best counsellor in dubai\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Best-counsellor-in-dubai-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Best-counsellor-in-dubai-600x813.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Best-counsellor-in-dubai.jpg 988w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/>So, you\u2019ve got a fast car and a snazzy home. Your kids go to an \u2018outstanding\u2019 school and your nails are simply dazzling. Everything\u2019s looking and feeling, well, pretty great. Everything except our bank balance, that is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you are wondering whether this article applies to you, ask yourself one question: How often do your friends in your home country get their nails done? We are not disparaging about it \u2013 we also have loyalty cards at N.Bar (and all the other nail salons), get our hair blow-dried for the weekend (they just do it better), and eat out three times a week (it\u2019s actually cheaper than eating in).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the life we lead in the place we live.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We\u2019re not going to feel guilty, or apologetic for the high-end lifestyle we are privy to. Dubai is here for anyone\u2019s taking \u2013 we choose to live here and enjoy our cheap shawarmas and free ladies\u2019 nights, while other people choose to live in cities where life isn\u2019t as glamorous, or \u2018easy\u2019. That\u2019s their choice, this is ours. Deal with it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But with a recent survey* finding that 97 per cent of UAE-based Western expats spend their money on \u2018luxurious lifestyle options\u2019 (as opposed to 49 per cent in Singapore and 53 per cent in Hong Kong), there\u2019s a nagging question casting a shadow over our sunny patch on the beach. Are we living a life beyond our financial means?<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0The Dubai Dream<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After years of coming to the UAE on holiday to visit family friends, Nicola, 31, from London, made the leap and moved here with her husband in April. She says, \u201cWe both had jobs back home, but we think we will be able to earn more here. We\u2019re not planning to stay forever \u2013 we\u2019ll probably be here for two or three years. Just long enough to save enough money to buy a house back home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For those of us already living in Dubai, this story sounds familiar \u2013 we\u2019ve heard it a thousand times before and probably even said the same thing ourselves when we arrived. But how many of us actually leave Dubai after two years with enough money to buy that house in our home country?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How many of us leave Dubai with anything at all?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jessica Cook is a glamorous-looking, smart- talking money expert, based in Dubai. As a private client adviser at AES International (financial- advice-dubai.com), she has a good understanding of the spending culture of the UAE and says that our lavish lifestyles are eating into our financial futures. \u201cPeople can get into a habit of justifying expenses to themselves. I do it myself \u2013 I get my nails done every week here, which I would never do back home. It\u2019s the clothes you wear, the beauty treatments you tell yourself you need&#8230; The problem is, these things are just so accessible. A lot of expats come out with a master plan to save lots of money and many go back with nothing, or are even worse off.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Dubai Dream<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fact is that while most of us arrive with a \u2018master plan\u2019, that goal of living within our means and saving money soon gets lost in a haze of expensive brunches and luxe living. The affluent lifestyle that is on offer becomes too much of a temptation to turn down and, before you know it, your expectations of life have shifted. Suddenly it is absolutely imperative to buy a new dress for the World Cup\/try out the hottest new eatery at DIFC\/ have a four-wheel drive. Why? Well, why not?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Noman Ali, 36, is a Dubai-based blogger whose site (www.thatguynoman-blog.com) shot to local fame in September of last year when he created a series of memes poking fun at the privileged nature of Dubai living, inspired by the \u2018First World Problems\u2019 memes. The \u2018Dubai Tragedies\u2019 series went viral with over 88,000 hits and, months later, people are still tweeting amusing examples of spoilt behaviour and hashtagging #DubaiTragedies on Twitter. Ali says, \u201cThere\u2019s a huge conformist thing that goes on here, with people trying to fit in and keep up with each other&#8230; We\u2019ve got a lot of luxuries and people can afford a lot. Would I be able to afford a big apartment and a live-in nanny in the West? Probably not. People come here and suddenly they can afford things they couldn\u2019t before and it goes to their heads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI know a couple that moved here and bought a Jaguar, just because they could. They said, \u2018It\u2019s fine&#8230; we wouldn\u2019t be saving any money if we were still living in India anyway, so we are no worse off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, Ali says he isn\u2019t pointing accusatory fingers at anyone; the Dubai Tragedies memes were based on real-life quotes from his friends and family. \u201cDubai is a brand at the end of the day. Every one of us helps to build that brand. We are all party to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Keep it real<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Put simply, we Dubai-ites have got it really really good. We have expendable income.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our \u2018public toilets\u2019 are grandiose, marble-clad, jasmine-scented oases of calm. Our kids go to private schools. We have help in the home. And, when we aren\u2019t working or parenting, we have so many concerts, festivals, malls and social events to choose from that we literally have to schedule downtime into our busy calendars. The terms FOMO (fear of missing out) and YOLO (you only live once) could have been spawned by the \u2018Dubai Dream\u2019 \u2013 why shouldn\u2019t we capitalise on our lot in life and get the most out of each weekend\/month\/lunch break? The only fly in the fun-loving, live-for-the-moment ointment is the future. Finance expert Jessica says, \u201cThere\u2019s nothing wrong with wanting to have fun, or look your best. But there is something wrong with getting to 50 and having nothing to fall back on. People can fall into the trap of living every day like they are on holiday, which prevents them from saving. You should prioritise your essentials, such as rent, then your savings, then your non-essentials. I\u2019d say 95 per cent of people do it the wrong way around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the risk of sounding boring, perhaps we need to replace our FOMO and YOLO attitudes with something a bit more&#8230; realistic. A bit more grown-up and, dare we say it, sensible. Fear of missing out on a good evening is a difficult thing to overcome. But what about fear of being penniless in old age because our retirement fund was eaten up at champagne brunches and weekly blow-dries and mani-pedis?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cindy van de Kreke-Freens, a personal and professional development coach at Authenticity Coaching and Consultancy, says, if you are finding it hard to turn your back on the glamour, or to say \u2018no\u2019 to a spending splurge that you really don\u2019t need, it can help to remind yourself of your values. She says, \u201cIt\u2019s about having clearly defined values, a compelling vision and a thrilling life purpose. Ask yourself, \u2018Who am I? What\u2019s important to me? And what are the things that make me unhappy?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If that doesn\u2019t work, she suggests keeping your eye on your end-game. When you finally leave the UAE, do you want to leave with some money in your back pocket? Or do you want to leave feeling like you didn\u2019t miss out on anything? \u201cThere\u2019s temptation everywhere,\u201d says Cindy. \u201cYou\u2019ve just got to remember what\u2019s important to you<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Get it real<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jared Alden, counsellor and psychotherapist at German Neuroscience Centre (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/\">www.gncdubai.com<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI would not say that Dubai and its people are much different from the rest of the world. But we live in A first-class city and that exposes us to some very nice things. Some of my clients say they feel so much pressure to have the nice things that they get into debt.&#8221; says the dubai counsellor. \u201cWe are influenced by what we see, and by what others do, around us. And, in the UAE, we are surrounded by beauty&#8230; lovely homes, cars that always seem to be clean, people dressing nicely. Our town centres and high streets are the biggest; we have the busiest malls in the world, going to the supermarket, or going out for dinner, often takes us through malls where we are exposed to the latest and greatest consumer items, or through luxurious five-star hotels. is it any wonder that we often feel a need to live the high life?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Counsellor Alden: \u201cwe tend to notice what is sparkly and new, but not everyone has the latest and greatest. there are restaurants outside of the malls and hotels. why not give them a try? instead of going to the gym, why not play volleyball at the beach with friends? also, dubai has some good volunteer opportunities \u2013 what a great way to give back. by changing what you see you can step away from the social competition. Competing can be fine on the sports pitch, or at work. But socially, it is a bit of a no-win game.\u201d says Alden, Counsellor in Dubai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jared is working as a counsellor in Dubai at the German Neuroscience Center Story by Louisa Wilkins, Aquarius Magazine, 5 May 2014 Keeping up with the Jumeirah Jane\u2019s &#8211; featuring Jared Alden, counsellor in Dubai So, you\u2019ve got a fast car and a snazzy home. 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