Summer Work

Jayne · Post by **Jayne** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 11:28 am

I would like to work in CVO during the summer.

Can anyone offer advice on the following.

What kind of work maybe available and where to look for job vacancies?

I have visited CVO many times and can think of no better place to spend the summer.

Thanks

Jayne

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 11:32 am

There are plenty of Bar/Restaurant jobs...but at £2 an hour ???

maddi · Post by **maddi** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:07 pm

Plus my E10 - E20 tip

Probably still not enough, depending on how much you like to live whilst you are there.

Maddi

PeterJ · Post by **PeterJ** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:37 pm

Maddi sweetheart, your 10-20 tip is passed on to the entire staff of an estblishment and more often than not to the poor sod helping you have a good time

maddi · Post by **maddi** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:43 pm

I think you will find that the chef, sweating his censored off in the kitchen is one of the poor sods helping me to have good time

Maddi

PeterJ · Post by **PeterJ** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 2:00 pm

To the Chef?? mmm?? Worked in Beefeaters across the Uk (not the best of cooking skills utilised) and to get to the point, decleration of tips etc to the waiter/waitress of which taxation was applied to the brigade of Chef's, commi's etc amounted to naff all (or a beer)

maddi · Post by **maddi** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 2:26 pm

Hi PeterJ

Probably just me, but really cannot get my head round the contents of your last post, be grateful if you could spell it for me

Are you saying you are for or against shared tips? Were you saying that only the waiting staff were responsible for making my evening enjoyable but they have to hand some of it over? Is your last post saying that by the time a tip is shared out it amounts to nothing? Is tipping so worthless that I am wasting my time (and money) doing it? As I say I am struggling to make sense of it but that could very easily be my own ineptness.

Maddi

p.s. spent my school & college holidays waitressing, say twenty years ago (God that was painful to type

), earn't £22 per week wages and the same again plus per day in tips (shared tips system)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 5:18 pm

Maddi! of course it amounts to something just not enough.??
Carry on with the tip.

Ellie · Post by **Ellie** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 5:24 pm

You shouldnt have to rely on tips for decent income..whats happened to the minimum wage there? Isnt it equivalent of £4 75..something like that ..across the EU?
But .. lot of us have 'been there' ..I was working long before I left school at 16..case of having to earn 'some bread' ..poor times.

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 6:34 pm

Once again the topic seems to have been hijacked!!

Jayne asked about getting work in Carvoeiro not the rights and wrongs of who gets a cut of the tips...

I worked out in Portugal for the summer a few years ago. (Not CVO but in Vale Do Lobo). I sent around 50 letters to a variety of companies in the Algarve and only received 2 replies. However, out of those 2 I did secure bar / restaurant work. I had a fab time and met some wonderful people, not earning very much is more than made up by the value of the experience and being able to spend the summer in Portugal. I think it would be just as easy to get bar work when you arrive, by knocking on doors, as long as you are not afraid of rejections along the way.

Jayne, if you can afford to just about earn enough to get by - go. And have a great summer.

If all else fails and you can't get a job, come home.....

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 6:38 pm

Nice one Chris, let's hope we all stay on the subject. I can't offer any advice here but let's hope it matures. Mike

Jayne · Post by **Jayne** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 6:46 pm

Thanks for advice Chris

I am in CVO in April so will knock on some doors then.

I have worked in travel industry so might try get work with a villa rental agency.

If not would be bar/restaurant work.

If anyone has any contacts I would be grateful.

Jayne

Ellie · Post by **Ellie** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 6:47 pm

Im sure we didnt mean to 'hi-jack ' the topic..and youre right Chris..if you can manage on those wages...and feeding oneselfs got to be cheaper than here in UK!

Jayne should 'go for it'....nice warm environment..friendly folk..sounds great..and as you say..try knocking on doors ..if youre willing to work hard(and it is hard at times isnt it..on your feet) ..but if youre young and healthy..give it a go..as you say..you can always come back!
Im healthy/fit but not quite so young ...could I get job Chris as gardener d'you think?Im qualified!
Id have my bag packed tonight!!

I

maddi · Post by **maddi** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 7:01 pm

Jayne

I really hope that you find what you are looking for and that it pays adequately enough for you to enjoy your summer.

Do please accept my apologies if you feel that I have in any way hijacked your topic.

Whilst I apologise to Jayne if she feels that her post has been hijacked by me (I do hope that she let me know so I can do so more formally), I do not apologise to anybody else, for joining in a discussion and expressing my views, constructively and politely on an open forum.

Maddi

Heaven knows what will happen when it is actually Chris or Mike who I/we offend.

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 7:09 pm

Maddi, be fair...

I agree that the forum should be open to any topic posted by anybody.
But I feel that they should be started under a seperate thread. Otherwise the original question gets forgotten and the asker never gets and answer...

Lets be friends...

Look now I have done it!!!