My daughter and her partner are moving to Costa Del Sol, Nerja/Torrox area next week and have sold their apartment here in the UK and given up their self employed job. They have enough capital to keep them there whilst trying to find work for approx. 2 yrs.
I am worried that they are over optimistic about getting work in Spain which has a much higher unemployment rate than here in the UK, though many jobs on offer here in the UK are zero hr contracts and part time work (very often offering below minimum wage these days as my granddaughter has found
).Anyway, that apart my daughter is a qualified hairdresser but has decided not to set up a business in that but might do some mobile hair dressing in the short term (she cannot stand for long periods due to slight back problems and has heard that the Spanish women prefer their own hairdressers in any case). She is willing to do anything, as is her partner. He has owned his own company (engineering) some years ago and has always worked for himself for the most part. He says he will do anything from cleaning apartments to working behind a bar, to doing mobile discos, to the odd maintenance job. He is very positive minded and has always said "there is always work available for someone who wants to work". He speaks a little Spanish and is planning to learn the language fully when he gets there. His most recent job in the UK involves repossessing cars on behalf of Banks and HP companies and serving papers (legal documents).
However I am still worried, I don't see how any of those jobs he talks about doing in Spain will actually exist in a country where is it 20% of its population are unemployed
Surely unskilled jobs are the ones that go first in a country where there is high unemployment.If you had a relative coming over there to work, what would you suggest they might get work in ?
By the way what is a TEFL/EFL course ?
