well i’m 18 from ireland i have always wanted to live in spain! so I always planned that as soon as i turned 18 i would move there myself. So i am just back from another great holiday with my family in mallorca and now even more determined to go and live out there or any part of spain really. But i’m going to spend all next summer there working to make sure i like it enough over there. So I put an add up on travel buddies website its a website were people who want to travel or work abroad can find people to go with them instead of going on their own. I said in the add that i was looking for someone to come with me to mallorca to look for some bar/waitressing work and accommodation. because my mother said she would rather me go with someone. I got an email back from a guy saying he would love to join me so i was delighted with that then another guy emailed me saying he was looking to go with someone too so all 3 of us decided to go together next summer. The first guy said he knows a guy who owns 2 bars over there a appartments so he’s able to get us work and accommodation so that was great i have everything sorted. The work and accommodation is in Magaluf were the 2 guys were hoping on going. I’ve never been so i don’t know what its like. Then i read and heard that its full of british people and no spanish people! I don’t mind british people but i wanted to go to a place where i can meet spanish people preferably spanish guys! lol and i heard its full of drunken teens too. The 2 guys i’m going with have been there before and love it, there mad into drinking all day and night clubs at night and out until like 5 in the morning! I like going out for a few drinks maybe 2 nights a week but not everyday. I have a feeling i won’t like magaluf. I think i’ll just stay in a few nights let the 2 guys go out and do my own thing i might even go out to palma some of the nights.
These 2 guys said they would definitely be interested in staying on over there like living there if they found winter work which is what i was planning but a different part of mallorca. But there more interested in staying on and finding work in magaluf. So i decided that when i finish the summer work at the end of august in magaluf that i’ll fly over to Barcelona and teach english to children which i heard there looking for a lot of fluent people to do particularly females so I sent out my application form. I think i will definietly like Barcelona i heard great things about it! and its a typical spanish town and i think ill like living there and make teaching english my carreer and it pays good too!
Also just a few weeks ago i got an email for a girl who would love me to go with her to mallorca to look for work and accommodation. She knows a spanish family that live in alcudia (which is more quieter and more spanish people out there) and is great friends with them, they said they will try sort out accomodation for her and maybe a job. I would definietly rather go to alcudia than magaluf its not as mad or british. But if i go to alcudia with her i’m not guaranteed work or accommodation like i am if i go to magaluf. Shes hoping on going over in june and coming home late august. but I wanted to go over around late march early april, which is when i’m going over with the 2 guys to magaluf. So i was thinking of going over to magaluf anyway and seeing how i get on with the work i have over there, and then in june while i’m over there i could meet that girl in alcudia and try get work with her then at least i’ll be only in magaluf for 2 months. Weither i go to magaluf or alcudia or both i still plan to go over to barcelona in september which is when the teaching job starts.
I don’t know what to! what do you think?
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i went 2 magaluf on holiday last year.
i can tell you that these guys wont stay working out there that long. they want a place so they can pull the women and have a good time. i wouldnt want to live with them. i dont think it would be safe. if they didnt pull a holiday maker they would try it on with you.
magaluf is basically hotels, bars, clubs and restarants. most people who go are there for the party atmosphere. theres something like 120 pubs/bars and clubs up magaluf strip. its every english tho there are some spanish things there its purely built for the holiday makers and nothing else!
palmanova is next door to magaluf (u can walk from magaluf-palmanova in 10 minutes) and its quiter and more of a family resort… you would probably be better there if your not into clubbing and drinking everynight.
alcudia is also in mallorca and is a big family resort.
your best choosing just 1 resort and sticking there all summer.
personally i wouldnt stay with those lads. they probably wont last all summer anyways.
Dia dhuit…I’ve no wish to put a dampner on your plans, but a few words of caution
1. If the global recession has not lifted by next summer, tourist numbers will continue to fall = less jobs available in the hospitality/hostelry industry. That IS a very probable situation.
2. I don’t understand why the first guy is looking to meet up with people (strangers) to go there, IF he knows someone there, and can get a job with accommodation.
3. I would be VERY reluctant to go there with people you don’t know. Maybe they are both very nice etc….but use your head. They have both already said they want to party and drink…if you are sharing accommodation and they come in plastered/hammered every night…doesn’t make for very comfortable living arrangements!
4. So you are worried that if you go to Alcudia with this other girl there is no guarantee of a job. Well neither is there any guarantee of a job in Magaluf! With the way things have been going, there is no guarantee that ‘this guy who owns two bars and can offer accommodation’ will even be in business next year!
5. I have never been to either resort, but from reading some of the questions and answers that have been posted here, I am POSITIVE that I wouldn’t accept a paid holiday there. In the Spain section > Islas Baleares > resolved questions…you will get an idea from what has been posted.
6. For teaching English, it would be very helpful if not essential, to do a TEFL course. Also start learning Spanish! There are probably videos on Youtube where you can listen to spoken Spanish.
7. Don’t be so confident that you will fall into a job in Barcelona in September! There will be thousands more people, most of them with more qualifications and experience than you, looking for jobs also.
And those jobs are usually very lowly paid, no contract, can be terminated in an instant and offer no security.
Although it may appear otherwise, I am not trying to put you off.
I think it’s wonderful for young people to travel to other places and live there. It gives you an education which no university could offer.
That said, these are very difficult times, and will be for the next few years. I know things are crap in Ireland, believe me, they are even worse here.
On a last note, I would urge you to excersise EXTREME caution with people online offering exactly what you want…
Slán agus beannacht..(you may have guessed I’m Irish!)
If you find a job, perhaps you could mention to the locals how you found it as there is great unemployment over here. Many locals a desperate for work and you aren’t even there and assume you can get a job quite easily. Best of luck!
Majorca is a holiday resort and is cold and mostly empty between October & May (it snowed there last November) The first time people go to spain they think its great and want to live there? unemployment in spain is a lot higher than the UK and there is millions of people want to do what you want – my cousin went to Ibiza at the beginning of the summer for a job and found nothing. As for teaching english, most children in spain talk english as it is part of the curriculum, you also need TEFL Certificate to be able to do that. In the late 70s I wanted the same as you and there was jobs available at that time but working 24./7 for very little money was not what I wanted and ex hubby was a teacher, there is about 500 people applying for 1 bar job and they are mainly asian and moroccans who will work for less than you would. My friend has owned a pub in Benidorm for a long time and business is so bad with the euro he has sold up and came back to UK, as for Alcudia or Magaluf – I love Alcudia and i am going in 4 weeks but it is for families not for young folk and I didn’t like Magaluf as it was full of teenagers. The choice is yours but be careful and don’t listen to the people that send emails inviting you over, they could be weirdos.
Finding a job in Spain… I would like to help but I’m in the same boat… and, to make matters worse for me, I’m a US citizen.
Who WOULDN’T want to live in Spain?
I’ve always wanted to live in Spain, and everyone tells me to forget it, but I WANT IT, dammit, and I figure I have nothing to lose by trying. Things are harder for us Americans, and I wish I’d been something else, but I’d rather play with the cards I was dealt than not play at all.
I’d be leery of people I met online. If you want to go to Spain, go for it, just exercise caution with people online.
Look at the book “Taking a Gap Year,” by Susan Griffith. It has some good ideas that may interest you.
If you wanna teach EFL then you really should do a TEFL course…
You have to be picky when you get training because there are fewer jobs and more competition.
oh and that other poster is right! Definitely learn some Spanish if you don’t know Spanish. If you go to Barcelona, you ought to learn at least a few pleasantries in Catalán, the language of the Catalunya region. The language that we call Spanish (castellano) is more essential and versatile.