i am 27 and have been in my profession for almost 9 years. my native language is english and my level of spanish is conversational i want to move to peru to be with my wife but i do not know if i can find work that will allow me to support my 50% of our family. she has an mba and works for a peruvian bank. is this possible
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mmm wow i don't know but if you are white then that is going to help cause they are so racist (they help white or light skin people more than very dark people of Native American Indian descent-its very stupid go figure, well its the Spaniard system of racism imposed in the society to favor europeans and their descendants....long history), but electrician? mmm since u know English i would say a private high school or the embassy or in an hotel with tourists. I don't think electricians make much over there (its not like the USA, electricians are very poor) in Peru, the ones with money are the business owners and the PHD level professionals. (doctors, good attorneys, etc) I would give it a try but I would recommend you to bring your wife to the USA instead as you would have more opportunities here than in Peru (my country by the way). I love Peru but you gotta be lucky to find that good job even though speaking English helps, having a skill helps but you don't speak Spanish and that is going to be a problem. Go and experience yourself maybe you get the opportunity and stay if not, have a back up plan to come back, you have nothing to lose and if you are going to be there, learn Spanish, you will love Perú and I hope you find a good job there or open up a business (restaurant, hotel, etc) there are forums in the internet where US Americans talk, google it, google Americans living in Peru or American ex patriots in Peru. Also contact the embassy of USA in Peru as they have openings all the time, also look for English/American high schools.
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Why not bringing your wife here? As an electrician you are going to have to be lucky to do well. People in construction, electricians, and those areas don't make much money. Apply for a visa for your wife and bring her here, I would suggest that. Other thing you could try to do is to teach English in an institute. Take some teaching courses and apply to some private institutes, they pay ok. Hopefully everything works out. You are going to love Peru, but I don't know about being an electrician.
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In addition to the low pay already mentioned, it is very hard for a foreigner to work in any of the South American countries unless he can prove he has a skill or training that natives cannot provide. If you could get a job, and someone to sponsor you, as a teacher/trainer you might be able to get a work visa.
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well, you know, life is sometimes a matter of making the right choice, if the matter is how you would be, come back to your place, but, of course you have to consider who looses more, you electrician or your MBA wife who would have to loose her bank job and spend a couple of years here to get the same MBA in a very low financial career market. So, may be it is wise to go there, have her as the main home supporter and start looking for something in your field or in any field close related. Finally, that is what all immigrants have done (included me myself),
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You could actually open a new small business over there, give service to all the foreigners that live in Lima. There are many embassies, foreign companies, hotels, and ex patriates that are located in Lima and you could give them an excellent service being bilingual. You could first contact a local electrician so he can teach you the basics in Peruvian electricity and then open your business, contact the US Embassy in Lima and work for them or any of the diplomats families. Your business could really be top of the line. Good luck!
