Native Zonie
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Jobs in Baja
Hi there! I was interested in moving to Baja. I'm from Arizona, so I've travelled through Mexico quite a bit. Anyway, I've searched for jobs online,
but have found little. I've also searched the Gringo Gazette and other publications with no luck. Does anyone out there know of a better job listing
source? I know there are other steps to this process, such as obtainig a FM-(oh, hell, I forget the number), but right now I'm just trying to gauge
what's out there. Thanks to all who respond.
[Edited on 9-18-2003 by Native Zonie]
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Ski Baja
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Trabajando
What is your job experience and what are you expecting to get paid?
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Mike Humfreville
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Do you have the necessary documents to work in Mexico?
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mrchuck
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Unless you have Mexican nationality heritage you can prove, or a job skill so special that it isn't available in Mexico,Or a lot of money to buy a
business and employ Mexican Nationals as workers, your job finding is ABSOLUTELY nil.
Mexico does not want any person from any country to come to Mexico and look for work. Period.
You must start a thorough search of the Mexican Consolate near you, go see them, and you will really find out if you have something to offer Mexico.
Remember, the reasons Mexicans are coming into the USA ,is because there are no jobs of quality here in Mexico.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but maybe the Mexican Consolate can pump it back up.
Saludos, mc
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David K
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Thanks MrChuck for making it so clear. I often wonder, when I read about people wanting to work in Cabo or elsewhere who post these questions on the
board, are thinking.
As I understand it, even volunteer work by non-Mexicans is forbidden as it could take away a paying job for a Mexican national.
Q for the Baja Political Board: What would happen if America had such a law to protect jobs for its citizens? Where would Mexicans go, to feed their
families?
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Ski Baja
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Jobs
And who would perform those jobs in America? Iraqi slaves ? How about the homeless or law breakers ? Me thinks we might just have the most skilled,
efficient and happy people doing them already. And it's a good thing to or we might not be getting so fat n lazy without their help.
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FlyGirl
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We need the same laws in the U.S.
Maybe not quite so strict, and not aimed at Mexican workers...
But we have an awful lot of skilled American jobs either being shipped out of the country or taken by unnecessary H1-B's from India and other places,
just because they're cheap.
I can understand why Mexico protects its jobs. I wish the US would do more of the same.
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Bajabus
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HEEE HEEE HHEEE very funny ski baja.
Iraqi slaves.......what a hoot!
Free trade as long as it helps us..... otherwise farm subsidies and don't tell us what to do with our stinkin selective protectionist subsidies.
"Just because they are cheap".......capitalism baby that's it in a nut shell. You want to dance gotta pay the piper. Everybody wants the cream and to
sweep the rest under the carpet.
anything else is commie pinko talk
gauranteed jobs... what is this, russia 20 years ago?
[Edited on 22-9-2003 by Bajabus]
"Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked of such a thing."
Dwight David Eisenhower
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Bajabus
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Oh I forgot. Yes, if you have a skill that is sorely needed or you open a business and employ other Mexicans then you can have a job with lot's of
red tape and silly bureaucratic nonsense. I've been doing it for many years down here but ay ya yai the head aches.
"Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked of such a thing."
Dwight David Eisenhower
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Skeet/Loreto
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Answer to David K's Question.
there would be no milk in your Refridg.
There would be no Melons on your table.
There would be no one to serve you in Calif.,Ariz, Texas.
There would be no cotton picked to send to the Mills.
There would be no Landscraping for Homes.
David my friend "Do you not realize that there are no so called Americans looking for those jobs.The workers who might need a job have been taken up
by Govt. employement, Unions etc.There is at least 2 million unnecessary jobs made for people who do not desire to work in the Hot Sun.
It comes down to this: If you have the Balls to come to the central Valley of Calif. work in the Daires,Fields,Cotton gins, Melon sheds you have a lot
more respect from me than if you are in a non essiential job with a Bureacracy of a feather bedded job with a union!
Those " Brown-skinned" people you are referring to are doing the jobs no one else will do and are feeding the people of this Great Country.!!!!
Skeet/Loreto
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David K
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Skeet, it was a hypothetical question (not my opinion) for the Baja Political Board, not here.
FYI: I have the same assistant in my business for 3 years, he's from Oaxaca and won't speak English (which helps me speak Spanish). However, he is a
quality minded individual. That is what matters, not the color of his skin (I have a black friend who helps me, as well). I am in favor of a worker
visa program, so these great people from Mexico are not ever 'illegal'. Other than not using an official border crossing to come here, they (most) are
honest and hard working people.
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Tony D
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union bashing
Skeet,how can you stereotype unions like that?Being a union carpenter,I know firsthand that most of us bust ass every day,as do the
laborers,operators,ironworkers,divers,etc.walk a mile in our shoes,and you'll see that most Americans can't keep up.Have a young Mexican man on my
crew,who,shortly after moving here from Cal.(farmworkers)called his Dad to say"the white guys here work hard".And don't forget where the unions came
from,or like Bush,you'll have us working 80 hrs a week for straight pay.I'm proud to be union,and I'm management,I run multi-million dollar
projects.Chances are,my week beats your year.
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