Any work for a bricklayer?
 

Hi, I am a bricklayer and my girlfriend is a techer and we both want to live and work abroad. Can anyone tell me if there is much call for brickies in Spain?

Re: Any work for a bricklayer?
 

You any good?
Because if you are you won't fit over here at all!
The standard of brickwork is generally (where we are) diabolical.

Re: Any work for a bricklayer?
 

There is plenty work for brickies in Spain.
If you are prepared to work hard / none stop from 07:30 - 14:00 then 15:00 - 19:00 (ish) for around €7 per hour (less deductions), and speak Spanish. Then you might have a chance.

There are of course thousands of Sth American, Portuguese, Eastern europeans etc. Who are willing to work cash in hand for much less. :(

Re: Any work for a bricklayer?
 

so that's pretty much a no then? does anyone else know about the rest of europe? Presumably pretty much more of the same?

Re: Any work for a bricklayer?
 

Can be as sh*t as the next man if needs be!

Re: Any work for a bricklayer?
 

You will probably only be able to get work among the expat community unless you speak fluent Spanish.

Your girlfriend's teaching qualifications - if she finds work in an English-speaking school she could be OK, but these only tend to be in the larger places.

If she speaks Spanish - I don't know whether her qualifications would be recognised here in Spain, she would need to enquire about that - although I think they might be.

Re: Any work for a bricklayer?
 

As bricklayer you won't have problems in finding work. You can work in a company (there are companies that pay very well, in fact it is well remunerated, mainly if you are official bricklayer) or to work as autonomous. This last has the advantage that you are you who it puts the schedule, but this finishes it is chancier because you should have people that knows you, I suppose that beginning in an area where many british live you would not have problems, mainly for the language and for the nationality

Re: Any work for a bricklayer?
 

You don't believe that all these people want to work as bricklayer, this can assure it. This usually makes the south americans, moorish or east european, that they are recently arrived and they are waiting the papers, but when they find another work, they stop to work as bricklayers or in the gatherin

And the salaries, it depends. It depends in what company you work, mainly being peon. I was a time as peon, I substituted to a friend and this way to win me a small money, and to my they paid me 60 Euros/day (and I was only a peon, so imagine what an official would get paid), of Monday to Friday (On Friday only I worked in the morning). My salary was more than 1350 Euros/month, and I was only a peon beginner

Re: Any work for a bricklayer?
 

But you're Spanish!!!! Its different for us foreigners :D

You buy something in a shop in Spain you get charged the English price, which is more than the spanish price.
You get a job you get paid the english wages which are less:D

Re: Any work for a bricklayer?
 

The Spanish construction industry is going to go into a recession, in the south and in Madrid this has already started. We are saturated with unsold apartments and villas in both those areas (I really don't think many people realise how much unsold property there is out there), promoters are selling at offer prices because they cannot sell what they have finished already. Building fiascos have stopped building projects and are putting many people off buying in Spain. This would tell me that we will have a hell of a lot of bricklayers out of work or looking for other work in other areas before long... so I don't understand how as a bricklayer coming from outside the country how you won't have problems finding work unless you had contacts.

Hope this helps