Boyfriend needs advice PLEASE HELP

[FordhamMike]

Hello all!!



First I want to thank everyone who decides to take a look at my post and provide a response [IMG SRC=\"modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_beer.gif\"]



Here is my situation.  I am a American National living in New York.  I have just finished university (22 years old) with an BA in English and minor in Spanish.  I have also taken and passed the D.E.L.E. exam administered by the Ministry of Education in Spain (nivel basico-advanced level of spanish).  I have 3 years experience in the IT field and now about 3 months in the field of Property Management with Cushman & Wakefield working for JPMorgan Chase.  I am desperately seeking work in Spain.  Because of my knowledge of english, I thought that there may be some type of translation market to work in.  (Being that I have seen some of the translations in hotels and other pamphlets that are pretty pathetesad)  Can anyone help?



Many thanks

Michael Colligan[addsig]

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[Sibsie]

I can\'t give much help to someone from the US as I\'m an English ex pat.  But from what I can tell in Spain there really is a plethora of English Speakers.  It\'s the number one place for people from the EU to move to and they have the luxury of being able to live and work anywhere within the EU.  That\'s the main reason property prices are growing at such an alarming rate. The days of being able to pick up a finca for a few grand are long over. [IMG SRC=\"modules/phpBB_14/images/smiles/icon_frown.gif\"]



Do you have a visa worked out?  Maybe it would be an idea to go to a specific company with a proposition rather than relying on waiting for vacancies to be advertised?



Certainly in my area there are a huge amount of Brits, Germans, Dutch, Swedish etc who are all fluent in English and have no working restrictions and jobs for translators seem to be non existant.



Where in Spain are you thinking of settling?  Maybe if you went to a less concentrated area you\'d have more luck?



[addsig]

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