How much work, how much life?

Hi,
Unless you are fluent in Spanish the chances of getting any sort of reasonable employment are pretty remote.
Adult unemployment here is currently around 25% and 52% for those in the 18-30 age group and that's for Spanish speakers...

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Thanks for the reply. OK., I know that the unemployment among the Spanish is very high, but isn't this different among foreigners? So far my experience shows that there is usually deficite of foreigners (who knows languages) in non-English speaking countries.

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mipel, thanks for removing the link.

Experience has shown that among the foreign contingents in Spain, employers tend to stick to their own nationality when looking for employees., ie., Brits tend to employ other Brits, Germans employ Germans etc etc. Your IP address decodes to Bratislava in Slovakia, is there a Slovak contingent here in Spain that you could approach for information?

The new government here has brought in Employment reforms that heavily favour the employer, at the expense of the employee, making it much easier to hire and fire employees; life here is tough if you dont have a job and I think it can only get worse. If you have some particular trade or profession that is in short supply here you will perhaps find it a little easier but generally immigrants have been leaving Spain because of the job situation.

The job scarcity in Spain affects all nationalities and competition for jobs is intense. On top of this you would need to be earning at least 1500 Euros per month to have anything like a decent life style, particularly in the major cities like Madrid and Barcelona.

I cannot in good faith say to you "Yes, come on in, the waters's fine", because it isn't. All I can suggest is perhaps, get some savings behind you then come over for an extended stay and see how you get on.

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I guess getting a job at a touristy destination for the summer seasons shouldnt be too difficult as I have been doing that for that last 2 years. Try aiming to travel over in the start of season and get started off with a secure season job, it will help if you know Spanish yet again the lovely people who first employed me could speak English very well and I didnt need it at the time. I got very paranoid when I enver knew what everyone was talking about so I slowly learnt some, to this day I still wouldnt say I fluent but Im work in progress.