Unfortunately there are still a lot of Brits on this and other forums who have not fully digested the consequences of Brexit .To do anything other than visit an EU country as a tourist for 90 in 180 days you need a Visa .That is the reality of the situation now

Remember that a friend will tell you what you NEED to hear not what you WANT to hear

As an aside, I voted remain.

Many thanks, that was very helpful.

Thank you, this is exactly the sort of constructive advice, teamed with local knowledge I was looking for. I have an offer of work with friends & family. So, to be legal, they would need to administrate the visa and I apply for the NIE ahead of buying flights? Re: the Campervan, I will not be bringing it in the first instance- I am aware they've caused some angst in the Punta Prima/ Los Balcones/ La Zenia areas and are now very much frowned upon!

Unless it is on the approved list where they cannot find Spaniards available to do the job you will not get a work visa. Incidentally 95% of those jobs are on the maritime industry.

Frankly, I think you are wasting your time attempting to get a legal job in Spain.

To be able to work you need a working visa, to get one of those you need a job offer, which you could get when visiting as a tourist for up to 90 days and attending job interviews. Then once you have the offer you could return to the UK and apply for a working visa. And the company could only offer you a job if they could show they tried and failed to find someone already in Spain who could fill the position.

But working while visiting for 90 days as a tourist is no longer an option.

Perhaps another option would be applying for a digital nomad visa but then unless you were able to choose when you work and still reach the lower income limit on the visa, you'd be working 9-5 and not seeing the country in the camper van.

If you give people a vote on something which impacts trade, logistics, employment, cross-border working, research and development, etc... to a population whose main experience with the EU is two weeks holiday a year, the result will not be in the country's best interests.

This is the procedure you must follow to be able to work in Spain.

https://www.exteriores.gob.es/Consul...nta-ajena.aspx

I have two issues with the above.
Firstly all jobs are advertised with the condition that you are able to work in the country (exactly the same thing as in the Uk and everywhere else) Most application forms have a box for you to indicate that you can. So dont tick the box and your application goes in the bin, do tick the box and you have committed minor employment fraud and will be told to leave as soon as you try to explain.... Ive been sort of looking to go back to work and the legality of being able to be employed is the FIRST thing I have been asked, each and every time... The OP doesn't sound like they are a brain surgeon, rocket scientist etc so its almost impossible for them to be given hope that an employer MIGHT pay for the visa application (apologies to the OP if they are in fact a rocket scientist et al)

Secondly, if the majority of a population decides to vote for something and its enacted, then that is what was best for the country. Its called democracy.
Unlike Ireland and other countries who just kept having referendum after referendum until the ruling classes got what they wanted in the first place.
Oh and I never voted leave even though I dont like what the EU stands for. I campaigned whole heartedly for the third option which would have saved all the bother, but none of the over 100 MP's I wrote to even knew of what I was speaking.
I an uneducated London lout had to explain the terms of the freedom of movement act and what each nation could do to apply the act to those who bothered to write back to me. And they still did nothing...

Anyway...none of this helps the OP.
So, options, spend 90/180 travelling around but not working and spend the other 180 working in the uk.
Try for the DNV but you already need to be working remotely for this to happen.
Try for the NLV but you need a reasonable level of income and cannot work. After the year is up it is possible to change it to a work visa but again you need a job offer.
Move to Ireland and stay there for however long it takes to get a plastic Irish passport and then BINGO freedom of movement restored.
Or, if you are a rocket scientist etc start contacting companies to see if they will pay for the employment visa.

Oh or marry a Spanish citizen and bob (or Paco) will be your uncle....

The unquoted part "And the company could only offer you a job if they could show they tried and failed to find someone already in Spain who could fill the position." makes it clear enough that some kind of skill is required.

Please stop taking this thread off topic. Brexit occurred, rehashing it at every opportunity is not helpful to posters who ask questions about the here and now.

Rosemary.

All I would say is that the reality is that the OP cannot do what he would like to do precisely because of Brexit - no other reason.Many of us all over the EU have been able to "live the dream" and many probably did exactly what the OP wants to do due to the UK being a member of the EU so Brexit is the cause of the OPs problem

And I do not think that working for friends/family is going to get the OP a work visa.

Spot on. We wouldn't even be having this debate if it wasn't for Brexit.

It seems that nobody can advise the OP how to proceed with her plans because they are just not possible in the post Brexit world. That is why UK nationals should have been properly informed and told exactly what losing FoM would really mean. Sending out a daft leaflet telling people FoM would end in the event of a Leave vote was not enough, it needed to be spelt out in intricate detail.

The best advice so far is get an Irish passport.

Your family and friends cannot just administer a visa. There has to be a proper salaried job advertised and registered so that anyone can apply and it then has to be offered to any EU national first .Only if other applicants are fairly rejected could it be offered to you. Obviously this has to be done or else everyone would be pretending to offer jobs to family and there would be no way to limit immigration.
If you want to come to Spain for 90 days and during that time helped out friends in an informal way and was paid a small amount of cash it is unlikely anything would happen. However if your friends had a bar or business and you worked in a proper sense for them and someone reported this then they could face quite hefty fines and you could be barred from entering Spain etc.
You don't need an NIE if you are only in Spain for 90 days and are not opening a bank account or buying a property.

So don't give the people a vote on anything that may impact the country, because they might not vote the way the govt want? Or are too ill informed? Okay then. That's not democracy, more like communism and a rather dangerous way of thinking. Doesn't matter if you, I, or anyone else doesn't agree with it, the choice was made, I don't see any major political party in the UK rushing to re-join either the EU or the single market.