Ive got a friend whos looking to work from home on /off line whilst in Spain ,she`s qualified in numerous office / clerical skills,book keeping, audio typing etc and is looking to work in english language so proberly for a UK company/agency,anyone had any success doing this? Any advise?Whos offering this type of work?

Rgds

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I'm doing it.

And your keeping it all to yourself??

Working from home is pretty easy to do. I have more than I can handle.

I don't have experience of working for them but have used their services so try guru.com as they are a global freelance site. The people I've used have been great. Registring there and other places plus being proiactive should see the work trickling in

Well, I can't really help with advise or contacts.

However, my situation is that I work for a big UK company as a programmer. Have to keep popping back to the UK every two or three months to remind them who they're paying and always get the usual sarky comments, you know - "Oh, I expect you just lounge by the pool tapping away on your keyboard..." sort of thing.

But there's a bit of jealousy in the office because people only see the holiday side of Spain and not the actual living bit.

Whenever I book a bit of holiday the others predictably come out with "but you live on holiday!"

It's not all as easy as it might sound and I think it would be difficult to actually get a company to trust someone that they are actually working instead of just replying to posts on expat forums. It might be easier being self-employed or working for a third-party company, but not when you are an actual employee, the same as all the other office bods.

I couldnt have put it better meself

I do the same but I`m autonomo

I work from home, for a multinational. I get this flak all the time. I get the last laugh, though, for now.