Opinions on options for personal trainers in Costa Rica

@jsanford101st ......Costa Rica is saturated with everything and everyone with what you just mentioned about yourself.It is amazing how tourists casually declare that they are moving or relocating just because they have an idea on how it is going to work out for them.Costa Rica is not dumping ground for the rest of the world who has a brainstorm......You better be situated financially before you enter the Republic with any long term plan because Costa Rica has a lot of common sense....

First, you must understand that it is illegal for any tourist or temporary legal resident to work in any capacity which could be filled by a Costa Rican citizen. Then, if your employer-to-be applies for a work permit for you, the wait for that work permit can be very long, and it's hardly assured that it will ever be issued. Costa Rica has a chronic shortage of jobs and a chronic abundance of unemployed workers.

Too, wages in Costa Rica are laughably low compared to those in North America and Europe. So, should your work permit be granted, your prospects of finding employment that will satisfy your legitimate needs and wants are slim at best.

So, ask yourself if you're prepared to wait a year or longer with no earned income in order to work for wages that are unlikely to satisfy you anyway. And remember, if you're caught working illegally it's a one-way ticket out of the country.

Do not waste your time, look some where else…

Here is overrated and crowded of people looking for jobs, low low pay salary under the poverty line and everything you consume is overpriced in $$$.

Be Aware: They are plenty people ready to reap you off, do not partner with any one, if you do you will provably loose everything. High crime rate.

Costa Rica is good for a vacation going to expensive (overpriced) resorts & take some tours and that about it. How long can you look the monkeys??? & birds? Let me tell you gets boring… you can survive here if you are a loner…

Best you🙏

Hello everyone and welcome on board jsanford101st !

I have created a new thread from your posts on the Costa Rica forum as the New Members thread is only meant for the introduction of new members.

I hope that the OP share his feedback with us.

All the best

Bhavna