Comments on: The Pearl in the Atlantic http://successabroadcoaching.com/blog/the-pearl-in-the-atlantic/20091130/ Inspiring Great Lives Abroad Tue, 08 May 2012 18:43:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Louise Wiles http://successabroadcoaching.com/blog/the-pearl-in-the-atlantic/20091130/comment-page-1/#comment-147 Louise Wiles Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:37:58 +0000 http://successabroadcoaching.com/?p=656#comment-147 Hi Jacqui - thanks for your comment and glad to hear the article was helpful. RE finding work here first. It is difficult for me to be specifically helpful as I don't know what your husbands area of experience/interest is? If you want to contact me directly my email is Louise@successabroadcoaching. Otherwise there are recruitment companies on the island and so it may be a good idea to contact them with your husbands CV, phone them for a chat etc. If he speaks Portuguese fluenty that will be a help as although a lot of English is spoken here because of the tourist trade, Portuguese is very much a basic requirement in a work situation. Best of luck and do contact me if you think it would help! Hi Jacqui – thanks for your comment and glad to hear the article was helpful. RE finding work here first. It is difficult for me to be specifically helpful as I don’t know what your husbands area of experience/interest is? If you want to contact me directly my email is Louise@successabroadcoaching. Otherwise there are recruitment companies on the island and so it may be a good idea to contact them with your husbands CV, phone them for a chat etc. If he speaks Portuguese fluenty that will be a help as although a lot of English is spoken here because of the tourist trade, Portuguese is very much a basic requirement in a work situation. Best of luck and do contact me if you think it would help!

]]> By: jacqui http://successabroadcoaching.com/blog/the-pearl-in-the-atlantic/20091130/comment-page-1/#comment-146 jacqui Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:15:49 +0000 http://successabroadcoaching.com/?p=656#comment-146 ola louise, your blog was very useful for me , as my partner and i have had plans , for a long time to return to madeira , as my partner came here (england) as a little boy with his parents ,so he has lived and worked in the uk all his working life and not in madeira , so i think we may find things a little hard ,as you have said that the wages are not very high out there , not like yourselfs, your husband had a job to go to ,if my partner had that then he would feel , yes lets go for it , we have the means to buy out right ,if we wont to sell here ,or we could ,,if we could get work keep the house here and have a little loan out there ,, so is there any way of getting work first ? his parents have came back to madeira some time ago , thankyou ola louise, your blog was very useful for me , as my partner and i have had plans , for a long time to return to madeira , as my partner came here (england) as a little boy with his parents ,so he has lived and worked in the uk all his working life and not in madeira , so i think we may find things a little hard ,as you have said that the wages are not very high out there , not like yourselfs, your husband had a job to go to ,if my partner had that then he would feel , yes lets go for it , we have the means to buy out right ,if we wont to sell here ,or we could ,,if we could get work keep the house here and have a little loan out there ,, so is there any way of getting work first ? his parents have came back to madeira some time ago , thankyou

]]> By: louise http://successabroadcoaching.com/blog/the-pearl-in-the-atlantic/20091130/comment-page-1/#comment-145 louise Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:42:04 +0000 http://successabroadcoaching.com/?p=656#comment-145 Hi Louise I just read your blog and and i think it´s great, it´s very helpful to share other peoples experiences and to see how they view living abroad. I wish i had of known about this type of network and support when i moved, i didn´t really see myself as an expat and didn´t really know or understand some of the difficuties that lay head. There is a sense from others that because we are living abroad we should be living this amazing life! It is great but we still have to deal with all the normal everyday stuff like everyone else and it can be even more difficult if you don´t have a good support stucture. I really enjoy living in portugal, i miss the UK and Australia but i get to go back there often to visit, if i do go back there to live in the future i know i´ll miss this place too! Wish i was in Madeira now, Lisbon is 14, dull & raining, just like the uk but in a different language! Hi Louise

I just read your blog and and i think it´s great, it´s very helpful to share other peoples experiences and to see how they view living abroad. I wish i had of known about this type of network and support when i moved, i didn´t really see myself as an expat and didn´t really know or understand some of the difficuties that lay head. There is a sense from others that because we are living abroad we should be living this amazing life! It is great but we still have to deal with all the normal everyday stuff like everyone else and it can be even more difficult if you don´t have a good support stucture. I really enjoy living in portugal, i miss the UK and Australia but i get to go back there often to visit, if i do go back there to live in the future i know i´ll miss this place too! Wish i was in Madeira now, Lisbon is 14, dull & raining, just like the uk but in a different language!

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