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[Luna Chica]

Heading to Lima Peru long term if possible next year in march/April have a bazillion questions that I need answered. My partner is Peruvian and we will be living in lima until he finishes his studies in three years time.

Any hot tips on where to score reputable jobs. I will need enough to live off. I am half-way through a primary school teaching degree, have previously taught ESL in Japan for 2 years and will have a CELTA when I get to Peru, I also speak reasonable conversational spanish. What can I reasonably expect to get paid and how quickly can I expect to find work with these qualifications at this time of year?

How much can we get a simple apartment for in a reasonable area? Thinking Miraflores, San Borja, Surco etc.

Any other tidbits of inofrmation muchly appreciated.

[Aramas]

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[Luna Chica]

Thanks, I have read through pretty much all of this forum for the past year. I was kinda hoping for some fresh leads and some advice from people on the ground at the moment.

What is an average wage per month (in lima), how long did it take you to find work when you arrived, has anyone managed to hook up reasonable work while still at home - what are the chances of this etc. Any productive advice is greatly appreciated

[rgamarra28]

If your partner is peruvian, ask him for a friend or family member that knows of someone who can hook you up with a job in Peru. It's not what you know in peru, it's who you know. The unemployment rate is very high and the average peruvian makes $3 dollars a day if they are lucky enough to have a job. As long as you are a foreigner, know how to speak a little bit of another language (even if it's not your native language) and know somebody down there, then the job prospects shouldn't be too bad. Americans can make anywhere from $10 - $20 an hour. My suggestion is not to go to the big language companies first, but find a few colegios down there who need teachers. You'll find that most of the English teachers down there are Peruvian, so a young american face, especially a female one is a hot commodity to have.