If you know anyone in or around Barcelona who is looking for a nanny for the summer, please read my post!

Oh, I just wanna add something to my previous post:
The reason I am asking you guys here if you know about any au-pair summer jobs in Spain because I had absolutely no luck trying to find a job online or through an aupair agency. I've tried several aupair agencies but most of the time what happens is that I search their database for families in Spain and I try to contact them only to receive a message similar to this one: "Sorry, but you cannot contact or add this family to your Favourites List because they are looking for someone of a different nationality to you".
OK, I am Hungarian, I suppose I cant deny that but I've lived in the US for a number of years and soon I am graduating from university with a Master's Degree in English and American Literature & History, yet none of the online aupair agencies want to accept my application because of my Eastern European nationality.... hmmm... and just imagine that I'm not even applying for a teaching position even though I'm qualified to teach English in the EU with a university degree in English - Oh, and I DID work in a nursery before - in the US and interestingly they had no problem of me being Hungarian :)
All i want is to find a childcare position for the summer. I sure hope I don't need a PhD for that :) :) lol (I'm not as upset as I probably sound - I'm just trying to figure this out)
any ideas? :)

I'm no expert, but from what I have seen, the Spanish seem to have a different attitude to childcare than the UK and the USA, and it is less likely that both parents will work and leave their children with anyone other than a family member - especially in rural areas.

In London, for example, there are hundreds of agencies and day-nurseries, and it is much more the norm for both parents to work full-time and not have a non-working family member to leave their children with.

The problems you have experienced with nationality are nothing personal I'm sure - it is probably down to the way the agencies offer choices to their prospective clients, by asking if they have a preference. Even Hungarian families in Spain would benefit from a Spanish-speaking nanny or au-pair if they are not fluent themselves, but I think that it is just unfortunate that you are in a profession where demand doesn't exceed the supply in your chosen location.

You probably wouldn't do any better as a carpet-fitter in Malaga or a central-heating engineer in Tenneriffe either :-)

It might be worth trying to contact a day-nursery in Barcelona directly, rather than to get an agency to place you with a family, but there are probably more day-nurseries in Alicante and Murcia than Barcelona.

Another thought - many hotels offer their guests a day-care service for their children, would that be worth a try?

Hi there,

I lived in Barcelona for 2 years and the women that I met there (all expats) needed someone, at sometime to look after their kiddies.....I know of one website in Barcelona that could help you, worth a go, www.tlcanguros.com, hope they can be of some help. Let me know.

Bye for now,

Alicia

THANKS everyone!!!! :) I kinda gave up finding a job for the entire summer but I will still be in Barcelona in the middle of July!!! Cant wait! I need to get my Barcelona "fix"! lol ...it has been 3 years....