Ladies and gents from.Brazil

[IrishSarahBarra]

Of course. A huge community of them. I love the Brazilian's, they're fab to work with (in normal jobs). I worked in a nursing home over covid, the place would have fallen apart without them, all they want to do is work and they're very sound/sweet.

Here doing English language courses for 3 sets of 8 months. The EL courses are capped at 2yrs so they must get a working contract, do a degree, or go home. Fair enough the degree but it's a min of 13k per year for a degree. (Probably for some crappy business degree that they don't want and isn't in line with what they did at home but hey it's cheap and will buy time.)

It's an impossible situation to be in...save 13k per year while being allowed to work 40hrs per week for 17 weeks and then only 20hrs for the rest of the year.

Looks nearly possible on paper but is impossible in reality...it's so unfair that we things just put of reach for them. I feel sorry for them coming here excited and only then truly realising how expensive everything is and how much they'll need to struggle to stay.