Chile Forum

I have been living in Santiago for nearly a year and have a little spanish under my belt. I have been trying to find anykind of employement I have an electrical engineering background mainly cars trucks and plant.
On top of that I have considerable construction and maintenance experiance.
Apart for some ( 2 ) private english classes i have been unable to find any work here is there anyone that can help or point me in the right direction,
I thought living in london was hard but at least i had 3 meals a day and not one. going back home to the uk is not an option i have to make it here just to survive any ideas would be welcome.
keith.

Try Ian Raleigh at Comprobe - he works in mining but is always on the look out for snappy intelligent well motivated people.

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good luck

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Hi
thanks for that reply will do.
In case your wondering I had 6 months work with a company called <NAME REMOVED BY ADMIN> bidding on a hydro electric project in Rancagua and although we won the contract subject to dropping our price a little Camargo pulled the plug and were not interested in working in Chile Too many regulations ????.
But I have now been without any work for 3 months again mmmmm.
I will Try Ian Raleigh again thanks Keith

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If you're willing to teach for an institute, you shouldn't have too much trouble finding someone to hire you. There are many to choose from, some with better reputations than others, and some which give more training than others. If you show up reasonably dressed and give a good, professional appearance, you should be able to find that kind of work. I don't know about the other areas you mentioned being skilled in, but if you're not getting enough to feed yourself, certainly this would be a good stopgap measure. Also, some institutes give (or sell for a reduced price) Sodhexo passes so you can eat out for less money.

After a couple trips to Chile, I'm pretty well decided on wanting to make it my new home, and now have a couple locations that I'm looking at in detail. There are two main holdups right now. The first is taking care of things here in the US, mainly fixing up my home and selling out everything. The other is figuring out a way to make an income in Chile. I already have some plans to invest some money there but don't think it will bring in enough for me to live as comfortably as I'd like. My Spanish is getting better but nowhere near fluent so I don't think my job prospects there will be very good except maybe for teaching English. I'm just wondering how good the market is for English teachers. I have no degree but can go through a certification program if necessary. I'm just curious what the work environment is like and how much one can reasonably expect to make as a TEFL teacher. I've already done some homework and from what I'm finding it looks like the pay isn't very good and usually it's just part time work. I'd really like to get some firsthand feedback from those who teach or have taught English in Chile already.