Curious Blue-Collar worker

[amolapaz]

What are the job opportunities for a certified fork-lift operator from the U.S. with fifteen years of experience and who speaks Spanish? If this person is unmarried and has no children how could he live (as far as quality of life) in R.D. as a skilled laborer?

[TheHun]

Originally Posted by amolapaz

What are the job opportunities for a certified fork-lift operator from the U.S. with fifteen years of experience and who speaks Spanish? If this person is unmarried and has no children how could he live (as far as quality of life) in R.D. as a skilled laborer?

I think they make about US$ 50.00-60.00 / week here.
This is kind of the average salary here for a dominican, and way too far from even a low-class US life style.
I don't think this is the job that you want to do here for the living.

The Hun

[amolapaz]

Thanks "TheHun" for your reponse. And yes, you are absolutely correct, whatever interest I may have had in doing that has certainly dwindled away. Thanks again.

[jorgesarduysousa]

Manual labor here in the DR is cheap, not like the states