Living & working in Spain - Particularly the Costa Brava and Catalonia

In this podcast I talk with Brian Buchanan and he tells us about getting work as a teacher of English both without the TEFL and with the qualification. Brian had a year in Japan which sounds like a real adventure and now has been here in Catalonia for just 10 weeks or so. We get the low down of his first impressions of Girona and Catalonia. Although it isn’t the first time in Catalonia, seeing as he did the TEFL course in Barcelona.

Brian has set up a shop with CafePress to produce tee shirts with a Japanese influence, maybe next he will do some designs inspired by Catalonia, perhaps the squatting figure that you can get here would be good on a Tee. What do you think?

Brian has an interest in music and he chooses the music for a show which is aired in Scotland each week. Sunday Night Leith time 10pm til 12 A900 SHOW or listen on FM 98.8. Links to Brian Buchanan can be found at leithal-music

You can even find Brian at MySpace

In the podcast I mention the British Society of Catalonia and the Witty Walks group. If you are a walker and like to get out and about  in the countryside within reach of Barcelona, you can check out their web site. Not sure if you have to be able to tell jokes while you walk though, get back to me and tell me. I will drag out a few shaggy dog story jokes from the old but good still cupboard.

Earning a living can be tough when you are living in a different country. Personally I have seasonal jobs and then I work on my internet income.

I have Wizardgold Blog and Podcast which is about trading on Betfair, maily football markets and also about taking the incentives that the bookmakers give to new users and cashing them out without any risk. Right now I have a trade running which is designed to take about 65% of the 100 Euro free from Zedbet. I will let you know when the trade is completed. The sister site to this is The Footy Trader

My other online personality is Spondicious Photography. I have always been creative and I love photography and art. This blog and podcast is all about selling my photos and illustrations online through the micro stock photography sites. I have just posted up a new podcast in which I show how to do something important in Illustrator, If you don't to this task then your images get rejected out of hand. There are other posts and podcasts to such as my interview with Lee Torrens and Aussie living in Argentina and living of his photo sales. Isn't it great to have income which is non location specific.

Get in touch if you have any questions about either of these ways of making a little extra cash. I will be pleased to help.