Brady wrote:Hey, thanks for the reply
oh yes i should of mentioned that but just want information
i am a British English man native speaker and my qualifications are mainly Advanced ITC & English and Business, i do not have esl or tefl my main job is web design and development i own a hosting company too, just wondering if there is any jobs for IT people too as well as English as IT is my main thing and job and hobby i work for different companies around the world, Singapore would be nice i could make a new hosting company there!
I see what you mean yes expensive, i work for some Singapore people now on 1 of my projects so maybe there are more projects i could do that let me go Singapore, i think having a British passport and a born citizen of England will make my visa issues quite easy?
Based on this post I am inclined to say "forget about teaching English", at least in SG
Your British passport is of
some help in getting an employment visa, but if you do not have the salary to match, it won't do you any good. Your options are the same as anyone else's:
- find a company to employ you on a
good salary (I'd say, at least $8K/month, so you get P1 EP). That kind of salary rules out most smaller companies, who would probably not even pay you $5K. (Their main focus being cost, not quality.) In that case you can also sponsor your wife on a DP.
- you seem to be more the entrepreneurial type, but I am not sure you would want to come under the EntrePass scheme, which has its caveats (such as, you have to grow your company annually and employ more Singaporeans every year of renewal, and have to have a good business plan)
- the only other option is to open a Pte Ltd company, and essentially employ yourself on an EP as director (subject to approval by MoM as well). Search the forum for the relevant posts.
Your posts seems somewhat naïve, so I strongly suggest you read up more on Singapore first, including the recently tightened labor market restrictions, and the cost of living to get a better idea. Even if you earn S$8000 here, and your wife is not working, will you have as good a life as in Indonesia? Would she even want to make the move (many people from surrounding "third world" countries are going back after a couple of years here, some involuntarily)?
Here, on that salary, you'd be able to afford a decent 2-BR
condo paying about 40% of that salary, and would not be likely to be able to afford a car. In Indonesia, if you earn even half that, you'd probably be able to afford a car, a house with a garden, and a generally more luxurious life.
