Can you work on cruise ship to pay for your fare?
I want to travel to Peru from Australia. Is there a way I can work onboard a ship in exchange for my fare? Can you travel as a cleaner or dish-washer and in exchange they give you food and a room? I don't really have any skills to offer but I am 22, fit and healthy with a years university under my belt. If there isn't much call for cruise ships going to Peru, then I am prepared to go elsewhere if it means I can get to the continent at least. Did you see the movie "The Worlds Fastest Indian"? I wanna do what Anthony Hopkins did :)
Cruise Travel - 2 Answers
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Nope. Generally they only offer 6 month employment contracts.
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No this won't be possible cruise lines usually (depending on the line) offer 6 month contracts to people. It won't be possible to just get on and work as you wouldn't have had any training or anything. Why don't you apply for jobs on a cruise lines then you may be able to see more places than just Peru.
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Does anyone know who to get a US Embassy Job.
Does anyone know who to get a US Embassy Job.?
I am moving to Peru, and I am interested in working at the US Embassy in Lima. I have the website. Everything I read says that you have to be a related to a family member to work there either that or I am misunderstanding what EFM (eligible family member) means. Isn't that nepotism?
Embassies & Consulates - 3 Answers
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Most noncareer jobs at US embassies and consulates throughout the world (except those few requiring security clearances) are filled by natives of those countries, who are likely far better than you would be in understanding the political culture and in maintaining important contacts. I do understand your resentment at the preference given to family members, but you must understand that they too have had to pass security clearances, and if their husbands/wives were not on foreign-service duties might have had careers of their own in the US. If you don't think you can pass a foreign-service examination, there are alternatives: courrier, security officer, computor expert, communicator, secretary. But you can only get these through the State Department, and, as always, you have no assurance they will send you to Lima.
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If you are relocating to Peru on your own, with all of the necessary residency and work permits, then you would be eligible to apply for embassy jobs as an OR (Ordinarily Resident). If you are the most qualified, then you would be offered the position. However, if an EFM (or other, similar designation) applicant and you are equally qualified, then preference would be given to the EFM. This is not nepotism, but rather a way to provide job opportunities to adult family members who have accompanied their embassy employed spouses/parents overseas - it is standard practice throughout the US foreign missions. I recommend that you contact the HR department of the US Embassy Lima directly: Embassy of the United States Avenida La Encalada cdra. 17 s/n Surco, Lima 33, Peru Telephone: (51-1)434-3000 Fax: (51-1)618-2397 Hours of Operation Monday - Thursday 7:30 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Friday 7:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. http://peru.usembassy.gov/job_opportunites.html
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Look at this another way. Let us say that you are qualified for a position in the US emabssy in Peru. Of course you and your family will be relocated to that country. You have a son who is of legal age and can't find a job there because he does not speak the language. He may work for the embassy as he is given priority, which is EFM. Same thing goes for your wife. The reason behind is you have all been subjected to security clearances before you left. I deals more with security that anything else.**
I am moving to Peru, and I am interested in working at the US Embassy in Lima. I have the website. Everything I read says that you have to be a related to a family member to work there either that or I am misunderstanding what EFM (eligible family member) means. Isn't that nepotism?
Embassies & Consulates - 3 Answers
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Most noncareer jobs at US embassies and consulates throughout the world (except those few requiring security clearances) are filled by natives of those countries, who are likely far better than you would be in understanding the political culture and in maintaining important contacts. I do understand your resentment at the preference given to family members, but you must understand that they too have had to pass security clearances, and if their husbands/wives were not on foreign-service duties might have had careers of their own in the US. If you don't think you can pass a foreign-service examination, there are alternatives: courrier, security officer, computor expert, communicator, secretary. But you can only get these through the State Department, and, as always, you have no assurance they will send you to Lima.
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If you are relocating to Peru on your own, with all of the necessary residency and work permits, then you would be eligible to apply for embassy jobs as an OR (Ordinarily Resident). If you are the most qualified, then you would be offered the position. However, if an EFM (or other, similar designation) applicant and you are equally qualified, then preference would be given to the EFM. This is not nepotism, but rather a way to provide job opportunities to adult family members who have accompanied their embassy employed spouses/parents overseas - it is standard practice throughout the US foreign missions. I recommend that you contact the HR department of the US Embassy Lima directly: Embassy of the United States Avenida La Encalada cdra. 17 s/n Surco, Lima 33, Peru Telephone: (51-1)434-3000 Fax: (51-1)618-2397 Hours of Operation Monday - Thursday 7:30 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Friday 7:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. http://peru.usembassy.gov/job_opportunites.html
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Look at this another way. Let us say that you are qualified for a position in the US emabssy in Peru. Of course you and your family will be relocated to that country. You have a son who is of legal age and can't find a job there because he does not speak the language. He may work for the embassy as he is given priority, which is EFM. Same thing goes for your wife. The reason behind is you have all been subjected to security clearances before you left. I deals more with security that anything else.**
Saturday, July 7, 2012
going to peru in a few months... on a visit for now but may turn into a long term stay... what do i need
going to peru in a few months... on a visit for now but may turn into a long term stay... what do i need?
what are some important things to bring with me?? and hows the weather? how do visa's work? should i change my money in here before i get there? ....never been outa the country
Peru - 2 Answers
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Before you start planning your travel to Peru, you will need to get a passport. If you are from the USA, you will get a tourist visa stamped in your passport which will allow you up to 6 months in Peru, after which you will need to leave the country for a couple of days and then get a new visa when you return. A good Spanish phrase book, a guide book or partial guide on the ares you will be seeing, and a good tourist oriented map. You will arrive in Lima, which basically has a climate like southern California. The mountain areas can be very cold. The jungle and very north coast of Peru can get very hot and humid. So, you need to take clothes with you appropriate to the places you want to visit. Everything else you will need depends on your likes and dislikes. You don't need to pack a whole lot since everything is available in Peru at a reasonable price. There is no need to pack differently than traveling in the USA. Get a belt for your important documents (passport, credit cards, etc.). The best place to wear the belt is around your calf under some Levis. There are many good sites on Peru with a lot of tips. Don't worry, you'll have a great time!
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Well i think it is safer for you to exchange your money in your native country, obviously depending on where you intend to go! If you are going to the tourist areas, you should be fine. Basic sun-cream kinda stuff The weather will be hot in a few months, But i would advice some kind of bum bag, i know they are not fashionable but trust me you DO NOT WANT TO BE CARRYING A HANDBAG AROUND LIMA! I honestly wore a flat bum bag style thing under my tshirt like on the bottom of my tummy, i was with 32 people. EVERYONE got mugged, at least once. Having said that I am an aid worker out there and do not spend too much time in tourist areas. But tourists do get mugged a lot there. If you have a camera get it out appropriate places, get some kind of attached rope for it around your neck! so no one can grab and run. I would advice you to visit schools in poor areas and rich, it's an amazing experience and they always welcome a friendly face! Read up on Peru's history, incas and the shining path, because you will witness and experience a real peru not just as a tourist. be aware of police, they can be quite dangerous there and either not too friendly or TOO friendly. ALWAYS HAGGLE! People will up your prices as they see you comingha aha! I feel in love with Peru. Everything about it is amazing, and if you do open your eyes not just to the more developed areas, i promise you it will change your life! Good luck and have fun, you really will! Don't let me scare you with some of this, it's just i wish someone would have told me this kind of stuff, before i got there! It really is amazing, you will have the time of your life:) Love, Luck &Jealousy! oh just thought if you go to Mira Flores (outside Lima central) Try to stay at the flying dog hostel, it's great and a really good way to meet other travelers and make new friends! :)
what are some important things to bring with me?? and hows the weather? how do visa's work? should i change my money in here before i get there? ....never been outa the country
Peru - 2 Answers
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Before you start planning your travel to Peru, you will need to get a passport. If you are from the USA, you will get a tourist visa stamped in your passport which will allow you up to 6 months in Peru, after which you will need to leave the country for a couple of days and then get a new visa when you return. A good Spanish phrase book, a guide book or partial guide on the ares you will be seeing, and a good tourist oriented map. You will arrive in Lima, which basically has a climate like southern California. The mountain areas can be very cold. The jungle and very north coast of Peru can get very hot and humid. So, you need to take clothes with you appropriate to the places you want to visit. Everything else you will need depends on your likes and dislikes. You don't need to pack a whole lot since everything is available in Peru at a reasonable price. There is no need to pack differently than traveling in the USA. Get a belt for your important documents (passport, credit cards, etc.). The best place to wear the belt is around your calf under some Levis. There are many good sites on Peru with a lot of tips. Don't worry, you'll have a great time!
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Well i think it is safer for you to exchange your money in your native country, obviously depending on where you intend to go! If you are going to the tourist areas, you should be fine. Basic sun-cream kinda stuff The weather will be hot in a few months, But i would advice some kind of bum bag, i know they are not fashionable but trust me you DO NOT WANT TO BE CARRYING A HANDBAG AROUND LIMA! I honestly wore a flat bum bag style thing under my tshirt like on the bottom of my tummy, i was with 32 people. EVERYONE got mugged, at least once. Having said that I am an aid worker out there and do not spend too much time in tourist areas. But tourists do get mugged a lot there. If you have a camera get it out appropriate places, get some kind of attached rope for it around your neck! so no one can grab and run. I would advice you to visit schools in poor areas and rich, it's an amazing experience and they always welcome a friendly face! Read up on Peru's history, incas and the shining path, because you will witness and experience a real peru not just as a tourist. be aware of police, they can be quite dangerous there and either not too friendly or TOO friendly. ALWAYS HAGGLE! People will up your prices as they see you comingha aha! I feel in love with Peru. Everything about it is amazing, and if you do open your eyes not just to the more developed areas, i promise you it will change your life! Good luck and have fun, you really will! Don't let me scare you with some of this, it's just i wish someone would have told me this kind of stuff, before i got there! It really is amazing, you will have the time of your life:) Love, Luck &Jealousy! oh just thought if you go to Mira Flores (outside Lima central) Try to stay at the flying dog hostel, it's great and a really good way to meet other travelers and make new friends! :)
Sunday, July 1, 2012
How to invest in the U.S stock market and what online trading site do you recommend
How to invest in the U.S stock market and what online trading site do you recommend?
I live in Peru and have just turned 18. I want to invest but i'm sure how to go through with the process, I mean I have no broker and I'm not sure how to work with the online sites (which ones are the best?) Any recommendations are welcome. Thank You.
Investing - 6 Answers
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Rafael.. I do not want to insult you but...you maybe might believe something that really isn't true. Somebody doesn't just discover a trading site, put some money into stocks, and then just collect piles of money. LOL Sure a few get lucky (very few). (very,very very few) extremely, more people with that mentality lose money, than make it. I believe of the so professionals out there, most of them do not know how to trade...they know how to make money on your trades. I would suggest...If you want to make money trading that you educate your self first, and you will be surprised on how much you need to learn. (depending on your investment strategy) Personally I think Investors business Daily is a great place to start. Then, after you think that you know what your doing... then start to trade on paper (make believe) Its not the same, but if you keep good records on your buy and sell--your profit and loss, and your happy with it....then start out small, and see what how you do. Or........find an on line broker, throw a bunch of thousands out there get rich!
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I've used Charles Schwab for 15 years www.schwab.com
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First off, save until you have at least $2000-$5000 USD to invest before you begin working with real stocks. While you're saving for your initial investment, do as much reading as you can on sites like Motley Fool, MSN Money, Google Finance, and Yahoo Finance, among others. You should also practice virtual stock trading at places like Yahoo or Wall Street Survivor. Another good place to learn one investor's technique is Jim Van Meerten's Financial Tides blog at http://financialtides.blogspot.com. He mainly works with growth stocks, but his criteria for choosing what to invest in is worth studying. It's a good idea to figure out what you want from your stock investment, because what you want will determine the type of investments you'll make. A suggestion: Once you do start investing with real money, consider investing in dividend stocks, at first, as these will pay you a small amount of money every three months, which you can use either to buy more shares of the same stock (automatic dividend reinvestment) or shares in different stocks (self-directed). To continue investing after your initial investment, it's good to do dollar-cost averaging, which means that you invest perhaps $100 USD a month in shares of a certain stock, and you'll be able to buy more or fewer shares with that $100 each month, depending on the share price at the time you buy. This will help you to accumulate more shares of a stock more quickly than you could with dividend reinvestment alone. It's a good idea to save enough money to buy 100 shares of at least one stock, so you know that, whatever the dividend is, you'll get 100 times that each quarter. So a dividend per share of $0.25 would mean a quarterly distribution to you of $25.00, presuming you own 100 shares. If the share price happens to be something liks $20.00, you'll be in the happy position of getting slightly more than one new share per 100 you already own, from the dividend you'll get each quarter. The more stocks you own, the better a deal you'll get from the distribution over time, depending on the stock price. I use Schwab's online service and its research tools, but ScotTrade is also good, and its fee per trade is $7.00, versus Schwab's $12.95.
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I use Scottrade. I'm pretty happy with them. Check out their website at scottrade.com But before you run out and lose money, learn more about the markets and how they work. I would suggest using a virtual stock market program to test your investing strategy. I use the one at http://education.optionseducation.org/ to test my theories. You should get a feel for what it is like to buy and sell with "play money" before you put down your real money. I only tell you this because it is what I wish I had done instead of losing $10,000 in the first year I traded on the markets.
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I use share builder. $4 to invest in an automatic investment plan and $9.95 to sell or trade.
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hi there ! I think you are a newbie and as such I would like to suggest you gnutrade trading platform to practice not only currencies but also stocks, commodoties and stocks. The play money feature will help you to practice until you feel that you are confident to go ahead with real money. Learning Center will help you to learn things which you do not know.. all the very best... practice daily
I live in Peru and have just turned 18. I want to invest but i'm sure how to go through with the process, I mean I have no broker and I'm not sure how to work with the online sites (which ones are the best?) Any recommendations are welcome. Thank You.
Investing - 6 Answers
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1 :
Rafael.. I do not want to insult you but...you maybe might believe something that really isn't true. Somebody doesn't just discover a trading site, put some money into stocks, and then just collect piles of money. LOL Sure a few get lucky (very few). (very,very very few) extremely, more people with that mentality lose money, than make it. I believe of the so professionals out there, most of them do not know how to trade...they know how to make money on your trades. I would suggest...If you want to make money trading that you educate your self first, and you will be surprised on how much you need to learn. (depending on your investment strategy) Personally I think Investors business Daily is a great place to start. Then, after you think that you know what your doing... then start to trade on paper (make believe) Its not the same, but if you keep good records on your buy and sell--your profit and loss, and your happy with it....then start out small, and see what how you do. Or........find an on line broker, throw a bunch of thousands out there get rich!
2 :
I've used Charles Schwab for 15 years www.schwab.com
3 :
First off, save until you have at least $2000-$5000 USD to invest before you begin working with real stocks. While you're saving for your initial investment, do as much reading as you can on sites like Motley Fool, MSN Money, Google Finance, and Yahoo Finance, among others. You should also practice virtual stock trading at places like Yahoo or Wall Street Survivor. Another good place to learn one investor's technique is Jim Van Meerten's Financial Tides blog at http://financialtides.blogspot.com. He mainly works with growth stocks, but his criteria for choosing what to invest in is worth studying. It's a good idea to figure out what you want from your stock investment, because what you want will determine the type of investments you'll make. A suggestion: Once you do start investing with real money, consider investing in dividend stocks, at first, as these will pay you a small amount of money every three months, which you can use either to buy more shares of the same stock (automatic dividend reinvestment) or shares in different stocks (self-directed). To continue investing after your initial investment, it's good to do dollar-cost averaging, which means that you invest perhaps $100 USD a month in shares of a certain stock, and you'll be able to buy more or fewer shares with that $100 each month, depending on the share price at the time you buy. This will help you to accumulate more shares of a stock more quickly than you could with dividend reinvestment alone. It's a good idea to save enough money to buy 100 shares of at least one stock, so you know that, whatever the dividend is, you'll get 100 times that each quarter. So a dividend per share of $0.25 would mean a quarterly distribution to you of $25.00, presuming you own 100 shares. If the share price happens to be something liks $20.00, you'll be in the happy position of getting slightly more than one new share per 100 you already own, from the dividend you'll get each quarter. The more stocks you own, the better a deal you'll get from the distribution over time, depending on the stock price. I use Schwab's online service and its research tools, but ScotTrade is also good, and its fee per trade is $7.00, versus Schwab's $12.95.
4 :
I use Scottrade. I'm pretty happy with them. Check out their website at scottrade.com But before you run out and lose money, learn more about the markets and how they work. I would suggest using a virtual stock market program to test your investing strategy. I use the one at http://education.optionseducation.org/ to test my theories. You should get a feel for what it is like to buy and sell with "play money" before you put down your real money. I only tell you this because it is what I wish I had done instead of losing $10,000 in the first year I traded on the markets.
5 :
I use share builder. $4 to invest in an automatic investment plan and $9.95 to sell or trade.
6 :
hi there ! I think you are a newbie and as such I would like to suggest you gnutrade trading platform to practice not only currencies but also stocks, commodoties and stocks. The play money feature will help you to practice until you feel that you are confident to go ahead with real money. Learning Center will help you to learn things which you do not know.. all the very best... practice daily
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