[childintime]

I wouldn't put much faith in brazilian recruiters, if any. I presume they wouldn't lift a finger to consider you.

Unless there is a ongoing relationship, in which case you wouldn't be asking.

Maybe he could try monitoring and keeping up some important system, remotely. A night job, but a different timezone could work to his advantage. Assuming he knows english, of course.

Another area would be a test engineer, and try to break things.