A nobodies guide to spain, living the dream.

Hi i AM going to make this my last entry for a while as i think nterest for it has fallen away and after this time in the blog we will be up to date, ok it was at this point while being at the carpark i went for an iterview for a job with a furniture provider for the want of a better word got on ok too but when i got back to the car park made 2 mistakes.
1, told the possable new imployer would need give at least 1 months notice to give mad man the best chance get new person, and 2, told the lad i worked with on my shift about job and he went an applied for it.
Now this did not bother me as i thought that i would get it , but we were both called back for 2nd interview and yes you can guess he got it. to say that he gave no notice what so ever was true and that droped me in it even more trying to man the phones and do his work too.Well they do say nice guys come last , any how about a couple months later the boss of said company had fallen out big time with the carpark boss over his car so i thought why not give him a email so i did. the next day i got a call saying my timing was good as he was looking for someone to assist the manager there.So after said interview i started with this company now i am not going to name them as very lately they have been getting some bad press on here for some good reason so i may gointo this further later on in my blog.
i will post more tomorrow.

Hi today to finish of my 12 months at the carparking game in malaga airport a couple of stories, first have to say that get someone to drop you there or use airport carpark as others not all you get rats human and in human damage done to your car and always clock your milage, ok the first story is of a famous comedian who is now dead phoned up one day when i was out doing a pick up and the boss answerd the call a mans voice said with a london twang im doing a gig in marbella tonight and will be in malaga airport at 2 this afternoon Mr----- said i can use his merc can you do that for me . Well the boss went mental i only caught the tail end of the conversation but there was a lot of swearing going on, he then turned to me saying cheacky man or words to that efectonly wanted a car got out for this afternoon and its not even his i told him to f off he said. did not think much more of this untill a member of the club told me it was his car and mike read had asked if he could use it he said, no problem he said just ring and ask the carpark to get it out. Well was he upset, upset he was lost for words never mind he will get a taxi.
The best one are the people who think you should be waiting out side with there car on arival and stand there dont even call you. Or the one who called me on mobile saying he was in the front of a lot of cars trying to get out of airport carpark and the ticket is not working, have you paid for it i said, no he said dont you do that, NO well  there was more f words than anything else so i put the phone down on him hearing all the car hornes in the back ground.
there are many more i could tell you but i wont. next part is i get a job

Hi today i will do a very short blog that covers the 12 months i spent working at the airport parking cars of site for a company i cant mention for legal reasons, but i am sure that someone reading this will know who and what i am on about. The owner of the company was srange to say the least at first he told me that he didnt think i was suitable for the job but to my supprise 2 days later i got a call to start on a sunday morening 9 am sharpe when i got there i found out that the other 2 people had lasted 2 days and thats why i got the call. i was intrduced to alan who himself was new
we were showed what to do taken on the first pick up and i was shown the office, and then let loose to get on with it.
all was going fine untill it got busy and i started to help out washing the cars, well the owner went mad, and i mean mad saying i was doing all the work that alan should be doing and he probably calling his girlfriend on his mobile,
get in the office you have probably missed lots of calls, none i said , i heard the phone ring un answerd up stairs he went on, this man was surely not right in the head i thought and by god how i was right.Well i am not going to say too much today but alan only lasted 2 days as mr m we will call him said over and over to him ur on ur phone all the time no alan said i am not and at that point his mobile went off see he says, i thought the lad was going to kill him but instead said give me my money im off and he did straight out the gate. part 2 tommorow.

Must start by saying yes i have made some money in spain but i havent if ur from the tax office and saying sorry for swearing bad boy.
ok will to day finish the part of estate agents by telling you two more stories, the first one was when i took out a nice couple looking for a house around 5 to 700,00 nice money if you have it and they did. Well i had picked 3 homes for them to see at the lower end of the budget they loved the first house but loved the second even more but there was a problem with the paper work not common here is it, any how there legal person told them not to bother with it.
so had find another to see picked one on the market for 550,00 the husband coulnot make it but the wifre liked it alot,
even belive it or not had her initials on the nbig front gates, ok she phoned husband who had areed to fly out just to see it. great i thought my boss pulled me to one side in the office and said great but we will have trouble, why i said, that legal woman that made them pull out of other house she wants 50 % of the commision or she will do the same.
ok i thought she even said to me in passing that her brother in law was a chief of police on the coast and could cause me bother, i decided that i would when the chap came over when in the car to speak to him about her, told him and he said she was getting a finders fee from him as well as payment for legal work not to worry about it he would sort it, think he was as scared of her as i was. Ok she said to me you have seen sence and want share commision yes, no i said ok she says and calls over the client and tells him that i said i would not by this property for all the money in the world, and that i hated it. to my supprise he turned and said i know he s never liked any of the houses he has shown us, got a wired taste in property has steve. i promptly stuck up two fingers and went back to office.
She i must say that she did her very best to stop the sale going through but it did in the end.
ok make the last one short, this was my last one selling property of plan and i can say that i did not like it, was ok at the start but selling the dream making people see from drawings the vision was hard and for most who just want invest to sell on in a month or two for profit was ok, but the final straw for me was when an old lady of 80 phoned me to ask when her apartment would be started as she  had been waiting 3 years all ready paid over that time all her money for it and was worried that she might not live to see it. that day one of the bosses said to me how is it going, not good i said 
cant stand selling ----------- property of plan cant name the company of course, 2 hours later i was sacked.
estate agents cant live with one and cant legaly kill them.  joke of course, next time i try carparking malaga airport.

hi all part 2 of selling property, ok one day i had clients with another agent from the coast well i had done my home work and was ready to sit with them and chat when the other agent said no need go through all that ive qualifide them and all they want now is to see property pushy twat. ok off we went all was going well first two houses they liked i could tell waist of time, any how i had arranged to meet the owner of third house at the football ground as the property was quite hard to find, drove in to car park as i did a woman leaving the carpark put her hand up to me so i thought ok follow her. we drove around doing my best to follow  her car whitch at times went quite fast 10 mins past 15 mins past still not at house by now my clients were getting restlessnot to mention agent. Any how the woman turned into a builders yard in the middle of nowhere so we followed out she got and at running speed disaperd in to office,
2 mins later a very angry looking spainis man came over to the car and although my spainish is not great asked me why i had been following his wife for the last 25 mins, to see the house i said, there is no house he said, OH i said the client turned to me and said you are a joke and i not happy. I said to them and you are time waisters on a jolly day in the country so shut the fuck up. NO SALE. too tired to write so part 3 tomorow.

trying my hand at selling property was ok if you like working 12 hour days for nothing most of the time driving
1 tourist after another on a jolly using your own petrol, this is just a brief out line of my 2 years in sales.
very early into my house selling days a funny looking little man came in off the street scuffy looking brief case in  hand and asked me if i could show him a few houses as he was here for 4 days on a mission to buy a house or land to build one, ok i thought time waister, others had told me that you cant tell untill you have asked them all the questions, 
i.e finance cash or what have they sold in uk and so on you know what i mean. any how he tells me cash buyer up to 150,000 euros so here we go, i did find a nice little plot with pre fab on it so we set off to see, now there are two ways to get to it and both are the same distance, any how as we were about 4 km down one of the roads i told him that there was another way to the property and this was another well before i could finish he turned into a psycho f ing this and f ing that he said you f ing c-nt if i wanted a sight seeing trip i would have hired a car myself. well i stop the car with force and tore into him how would you like me drop you off here you f ing little twat i said, if you would have let me finish i said i could have told you that they are both 10 km any how we went he liked we wentback to office tried get deposit 
need to think about it off he went last time i see. rentals, easy money people say, bollocks i say.
late on eday for work the boss says to me i have a client tonight cant make it so you can do it, gave me the property details location keys and meet them here at 6 pm,ok i said well 6 pm came and in walks a woman, ok she says my husbands waiting in the car, so off we go down the road a bit she opens the door and what do i see the man has no legs and drives using cables and stuff, hello i say, hi is the reply. Now i dont have a problem with showing rentals to disabled people far from it but it would have been good to be told it before. so off we go to the property and i just know 
given my track record that its going to be a nightmare. up a rough track 5 km manual gates in to it, gravel drive and large steps up to the house. i turn to see the client looking at them with a little smile on my face, what the fu-k he says is this, are you blind or somthing he says to me, needless to say it was a no and silent trip back to the office, at least they didnt leave me there. next time part 2 off the day in the life of an estate agent.

I have to start off this one by saying sorry to karen who reads my blog, she finds my spelling and grammer very hard to follow and i feel that i need to explain that this blog reads back to front so you realy need to start with the oldest post first, and to karen all i can say is that i suffer from dyslexia and i thought this was a bit of fun so im sorry i dont spell and grammer check it. by the way keep reading posts to see if i get further than gardener. 
Ok at this point i had decided that i could do some garden work not planting and things just tidy and maybe some small concrete and walls. put out some fliers and asked about, a very nice man called me on mobile and said he need a few days work doing and asked my rate 8 euros an hour i said, ok he said and gave me directions to his house. He greeted me at the gate with dog barking and invited me in, showed me were the wall was to be built and asked me what i needed to complete job. well i said like a profesional  around 40 blocks and 2 bags of cement any way the sand is down there he says, it was a good 40 mtrs down hill and with know mixer was bloody hard work in the middle of summer on your own. I had to dig out foundation for the wall move the soil and then mix by hand the concrete for the foundation. four days later its was done paid in full and off to go, it was at that point i thought this garden work is bloody hard what else can i do,Selling i thought cant be too hard so i set out to get jobs in realestate.
next time a day in the life of an estate agent.

Get of your arse and go look for work, funny saying that, suppose when we move to spain hope to be doing a lot of sitting on ones arse. But no not with my mother in law, move to spain she says sitting by the pool in november 
what a pile of horse shit. it never fails to suprise me that in laws are all sweetness and light for a short time then bang 
the swing into action from thatup side hanging position they do, i mean bats. just like mother in laws dont forget men 
one day the wife will be just like her mother, all though they promise never.
at first i got of to look for work with great expectations you know what i mean cock sure of myself will not take me long to find work.then after 60 cv sent countless walks around town putting out fliyers, rememember when you used look forward to friday just to get the sur in english, you could not find one most of the time.
down troden and mother in law in my ear all the time i decided to work for my self i thought if all the others can have easy jet qualifacations so can i. but that s the next chapter. Garden work how hard can it be.

the first morning you wake up to your new life in spain its the greatest feeling ever, sun on your face no job to rush to beer by the pool aint life great i think to my self. first things first i think bank open an account nie must get, car or van for transport after all cant exoect mother in law to keep driving us around all the time. well bank takes hours but they smile as they take the check to bank, wifes upset because it says don on the check book and she cant get dona on it.
N.I.E was easier than i thought apart for the local nutters in the police station that scare the life out of you.
Van we decided to buy seat siver girl gave us discount asit had been registerd already still 13,000 euros bloody hell 
needed a drink after that spend. all is great all  is quite sitting by the pool having a beer, then all i hear is have you seen the men working down the end of the road there english why dont you ask them for work, bloody hell i think been here 2 mins and the mother in laws of on one allready, aint life great. next time get  off your arse.

It was oct 08 th 2002 the big day move to spain get out of damp old wales for good. we had already sent a pallet of items at great expence the week before, so for me and the wife it was just the matter of a few cases and a lot of over wait all my time was spent worrying how much it would all cost well i am welsh. Dont worry says cath thats the wife,
it will be no problem if we get there early, i dont know what is is but as soon as i step foot inside an airport i feel guilty.
in the check in cue worry, the girl asks the normal questions packed the bags urselfs as any one given you stuff to take, i say no to all questions as quick as possable waiting for your over wait sir im sorryas i see the weight on the scales hit 47 kg but know she says nothing except please take that one bag to the end because it was soft luggage.
have a nice flight she says, to the end we go and a man who looks like a tax inspector has a rummage through it,
whats this he say a hot water bottle going somewhere cold he says, no replys the wife spain.
you never knw do you might get a bit chilly one night. 
god security was a night mare shoes off belt off and some realy ruff looking woman gave me quit a good going over too, any flight was good all though i got ear pain all the to land bloody easyjet.
got  the mother in law meeting us all is great we are here spain viva espana.

next week aint life great.