How easy or how hard is it to move to CR?

3POSTS

7 years ago

I'm Canadian born in Hamilton Ontario and have been living in Burlington. I work at Costco full time . However I did go to school for Massage and have my deplomia . Massage is my passion in life and love helping others . so how hard is it to do Massage.?聽 I have been to Santa Terisa and fell in love with the small town . Beautiful sunsets . I love walking on the beach . Is it hard to find work?

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kohlerias ViP

1572POSTS

7 years ago

Please read the previous posts, , regarding the legality of living and working here.
Many massage and yoga instructors are here already....and your diploma may be worthless, unless in Spanish.

samramon ViP

1338POSTS

7 years ago

Jmckaysun74 wrote:
I'm Canadian born in Hamilton Ontario and have been living in Burlington. I work at Costco full time . However I did go to school for Massage and have my deplomia . Massage is my passion in life and love helping others . so how hard is it to do Massage.?聽 I have been to Santa Terisa and fell in love with the small town . Beautiful sunsets . I love walking on the beach . Is it hard to find work?

While not legal, there are many who do self-employed type jobs in Costa Rica "under the table". In your case this could be "under the massage table"... Just joking.
Anyway it is always possible someone at a larger B&B or a small hotel might be willing to hire you to do massages on a per-massage payment basis but you'd almost certainly have to do your own promotion, advertising, etc. I doubt anyone would "hire you" as in a full time job working for someone else.

And then of course, it would still be "illegal" so you might get in trouble and deported; or you might not....