Possibilities
Jun 18th 2013 | 9:27 pm
#16
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Joined: May 2013
Posts: 1,176
Re: Possibilities
SJE,
I really hope that you can make this work as Spain is a wonderful country.
However, as people are advising, work is very difficult to come by even for the Spanish!
I´ll put this into perspective. During my first year here we had planned on taking a year off work. I am English and my wife is Spanish.
However, during this year a friend of mine advised that an office in Granada was looking for English speakers to liase with official offices in the UK. When I started working there (40 hrs per week/approx 1-1.2k per month in your pocket salary) I realised that most people working were well over qualified. In my section there was a qualified pilot, approx 3 qualified teachers, a PT instructor, a few guys that had owned their own companies, one or two engineers and the list goes on.
Most, if not all of these people put up with the job as there simply wasn´t another choice...I went back to my original plan of taking time off as the job was very stressful and demanding and at this time, I simply didn´t need the money.
During our second year we put our original plan into action by opening our own business. (We are both Opticians).
As other people have advised, to open your own business you will need a lot of money. The banks are very strictly controlled so don´t expect a single penny of finance, regardless of how thoroughly you do your research and prepare your business plan.
Secondly, with my wife being native, even for her the process has proved incredibly complicated so your understanding of Spanish needs to be of a very high standard.
Simply put, my Spanish is intermediate and I could not have possibly jumped through all the hoops that will be put infront of you!
So when all said and done, I hope you do find a way of making a life here but do be warned, unless you have a lot of money, it will be very difficult to find work and even more complicated if you set up on your own.
I hate to sound negative as we love it here and the stress of setting up our business has been worth every minute.
What ever you decide, I wish you all the very best of luck!
I really hope that you can make this work as Spain is a wonderful country.
However, as people are advising, work is very difficult to come by even for the Spanish!
I´ll put this into perspective. During my first year here we had planned on taking a year off work. I am English and my wife is Spanish.
However, during this year a friend of mine advised that an office in Granada was looking for English speakers to liase with official offices in the UK. When I started working there (40 hrs per week/approx 1-1.2k per month in your pocket salary) I realised that most people working were well over qualified. In my section there was a qualified pilot, approx 3 qualified teachers, a PT instructor, a few guys that had owned their own companies, one or two engineers and the list goes on.
Most, if not all of these people put up with the job as there simply wasn´t another choice...I went back to my original plan of taking time off as the job was very stressful and demanding and at this time, I simply didn´t need the money.
During our second year we put our original plan into action by opening our own business. (We are both Opticians).
As other people have advised, to open your own business you will need a lot of money. The banks are very strictly controlled so don´t expect a single penny of finance, regardless of how thoroughly you do your research and prepare your business plan.
Secondly, with my wife being native, even for her the process has proved incredibly complicated so your understanding of Spanish needs to be of a very high standard.
Simply put, my Spanish is intermediate and I could not have possibly jumped through all the hoops that will be put infront of you!
So when all said and done, I hope you do find a way of making a life here but do be warned, unless you have a lot of money, it will be very difficult to find work and even more complicated if you set up on your own.
I hate to sound negative as we love it here and the stress of setting up our business has been worth every minute.
What ever you decide, I wish you all the very best of luck!
Jun 18th 2013 | 9:32 pm
#17
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Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 6,404
From: East Sussex
Re: Possibilities
SJE,
I really hope that you can make this work as Spain is a wonderful country.
However, as people are advising, work is very difficult to come by even for the Spanish!
I´ll put this into perspective. During my first year here we had planned on taking a year off work. I am English and my wife is Spanish.
However, during this year a friend of mine advised that an office in Granada was looking for English speakers to liase with official offices in the UK. When I started working there (40 hrs per week/approx 1-1.2k per month in your pocket salary) I realised that most people working were well over qualified. In my section there was a qualified pilot, approx 3 qualified teachers, a PT instructor, a few guys that had owned their own companies, one or two engineers and the list goes on.
Most, if not all of these people put up with the job as there simply wasn´t another choice...I went back to my original plan of taking time off as the job was very stressful and demanding and at this time, I simply didn´t need the money.
During our second year we put our original plan into action by opening our own business. (We are both Opticians).
As other people have advised, to open your own business you will need a lot of money. The banks are very strictly controlled so don´t expect a single penny of finance, regardless of how thoroughly you do your research and prepare your business plan.
Secondly, with my wife being native, even for her the process has proved incredibly complicated so your understanding of Spanish needs to be of a very high standard.
Simply put, my Spanish is intermediate and I could not have possibly jumped through all the hoops that will be put infront of you!
So when all said and done, I hope you do find a way of making a life here but do be warned, unless you have a lot of money, it will be very difficult to find work and even more complicated if you set up on your own.
I hate to sound negative as we love it here and the stress of setting up our business has been worth every minute.
What ever you decide, I wish you all the very best of luck!
I really hope that you can make this work as Spain is a wonderful country.
However, as people are advising, work is very difficult to come by even for the Spanish!
I´ll put this into perspective. During my first year here we had planned on taking a year off work. I am English and my wife is Spanish.
However, during this year a friend of mine advised that an office in Granada was looking for English speakers to liase with official offices in the UK. When I started working there (40 hrs per week/approx 1-1.2k per month in your pocket salary) I realised that most people working were well over qualified. In my section there was a qualified pilot, approx 3 qualified teachers, a PT instructor, a few guys that had owned their own companies, one or two engineers and the list goes on.
Most, if not all of these people put up with the job as there simply wasn´t another choice...I went back to my original plan of taking time off as the job was very stressful and demanding and at this time, I simply didn´t need the money.
During our second year we put our original plan into action by opening our own business. (We are both Opticians).
As other people have advised, to open your own business you will need a lot of money. The banks are very strictly controlled so don´t expect a single penny of finance, regardless of how thoroughly you do your research and prepare your business plan.
Secondly, with my wife being native, even for her the process has proved incredibly complicated so your understanding of Spanish needs to be of a very high standard.
Simply put, my Spanish is intermediate and I could not have possibly jumped through all the hoops that will be put infront of you!
So when all said and done, I hope you do find a way of making a life here but do be warned, unless you have a lot of money, it will be very difficult to find work and even more complicated if you set up on your own.
I hate to sound negative as we love it here and the stress of setting up our business has been worth every minute.
What ever you decide, I wish you all the very best of luck!
