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nickyspaghetti   
4 Jan 2009
Work / Job opportunities in Poland for a foreigner? (other than a teacher) [175]

(Sorry I just realised I posted in the wrong forum - it should be in work and study. Can the mods move it, thanks!)
I have lived in Wrocław for 2 years now and I am finding it more difficult to be satisfied with my job teaching English.
As a temporary job it is great but in the long term it offers little stability.
My main question is - What other opportunities are there here?
I speak only basic Polish, although I understand quite a lot.
I trained in music technology, which points towards the TV and radio studios, but I'm guessing that it is just as hard to get into as in the UK.

There are a number of large companies here, but I'm not sure if any of them are hiring English speakers to do everyday jobs or not.

Any advice would be much appreciated.
nickyspaghetti   
4 Jan 2009
Work / Job opportunities in Poland for a foreigner? (other than a teacher) [175]

My wife is Polish and I moved here to be with her family(they are not very well)
I don't want to ask my wife to move back to the UK but I'm finding teaching quite demoralising at the moment as it eats up every spare moment I have due to irregular hours. I can't find school that will give sensible working hours in large blocks which means that I end up working 2 hours in the morning, 2 in the afternoon and 2 in the evening.

I would love to go to work for 8 hours and leave it behind when I come home, but this job requires all my time at home to be spent preparing for work again!

I'm just not sure what other opportunities there are that won't require significant study(which I don't have time for due to working hours!)

My polish is at A1/A2 level - I can have a basic conversation and survive but you can't ask me anything too complicated
nickyspaghetti   
7 Jan 2009
Work / Job opportunities in Poland for a foreigner? (other than a teacher) [175]

MY problem isn't the money but the time, so I might try at a university instead. At the moment I see myself giving up working in school as the hours they give me are just not convenient and require me to travel in and out of town 4 or 5 times a day.

Maybe I should just take more private students as they never make me feel bad about my work!
Thanks for the advice.
Nick