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Hello Dear,

Welcome to Egypt!

Which city you're planning to visit?  If Cairo, I strongly not recommended driving in Cairo since its your first time in Egypt, instead take Uber or Careem using Mobile application for your transportation unless you have a local person will guide u to use the public transportation...(which also not recommended in Cairo)

For places to visit: you need to plan your time carefully and plan your days and places to visit based on the cities you're planning to visit, please use this website will help you to plan the places to visit in each city;  .

For work in Egypt: : I don't think that it's easy expect for International schools in Egypt and you can find a list of it on the internet if you eligible to work as a teacher, maybe there are more ... but I don't know, you can check online.

For Egyptians: They are very nice people specially with foreigners, you just need to read more about Egyptians culture to avoid culture shock.


Thanks
Amr

Lol...
The reality for myself and expats I've met..even half Egyptians
can be brutal, but we don't give up.

Yeah, public transportation may not be recommended..but sometimes forced to take it, and I hate it for the most part due to crowds, unorderly chaos which can be a danger in of itself; twice a near hit n miss getting hit by a car, pushed into the metro tracks, or a mob of men rushing at you to get into a micro bus.
You'd think those with a degree (no offense) and of a certain upper-class background would understand why you're so anxious to take public transportation..by yourself, as a foreign female, and especially at night?  No, they don't care.
Not certified nor have a degree in teaching, but if English is first language, people will still want help in the English language, usually via tutoring.
In general, most schools are generally known not to pay teachers well, don't always mention salaries for a reason, and now its required for foreigners across all sectors, to at least be paid 5k or more. Not less. Because it'd otherwise be impossible.

Of course, there will be some Egyptians whether they are employers, owners of property like a house or company and won't care about your needs, or what you're okay with or not.  These people, aren't the law abiding types. 

If you plan to live in Egypt long term, go through Airbnb, buy property via legal channels, you'd save yourself a whole lot of hassle, and try to network with good people, have good connections, people who will stick with you especially in hard times, because not having such would be hell.

I will give you 2 advice:

1- Forget about public transportation.
2- choose to live in a good area with good neighbors to enjoy Cairo. You can find lots of foreigners in Maadi.

Good luck

Most friends and family I know live in New Cairo; Al Rehab, tagom3 5 area and I actually prefer those.
Maadi, I guess due to bad experiences, avoiding it except when visiting friends or have meetings.

Public transportation, try to avoid it when able to. There are buses like the 'M' buses, I would only take them from the bus stations, the drivers usually know English, the M 5 goes directly to New Cairo, AUC, when I learned the route I feel safer to take this.  Anything else, someone would have to show me and not complain about how we foreigners don't use public transportation or follow directions in an unknown area not familiar with. 
If you took uber, this can easily cost you near 200l.e in one way.
I live in an okay area, that used to be famous for foreigners, in Dokki, I don't prefer it but only here for work and nothing else.  Thanks

I use a mobile app whenever I want to take M6 bus, its name is Mwasalat Misr. It shows all the routes of this bus and when you choose ur route, u can track bus to know when it will be at ur pick up place instead of waiting for it.

I am an American and went through this process and obtained residency in Egypt.

Everyone was very easy to deal with including customs. People in Egypt treated me nice and were mostly curious and friendly.

To work in Egypt you need a work permit which you will not get w/ residency, so bring your degrees or ask your employer in the US to provide you a letter saying you worked with them during a specific time period. You can work in a call center w/ your English or a school, or even in sales.

Some companies don't care about the work permit but they're not trustworthy.

I ended up working from home for US companies; working in Egypt was fun but kind of a pain. Plus I was paid a lot more and got paid in dollars.

If you are looking for work I may be able to refer to a company to work remotely that is looking for an outbound sales specialist. (NY based).

Please let me know if you have other questions or if I can help further.  Best of luck!

First, try to choose apartment in New Cairo or Maadi at where you may find a lot of foreign ppl so you may feel comfortable "but try to be near to your work to save time and efforts"
2nd, Do not drive at the beginning at least, nowadays there are many maintenances in the roads so you need to be familiar with it first, u can use uber, careem, SWVL bus, uber bus, careem bus, and etc...
3rd, for work, you may choose international schools as a start "despite I dont advice you" as per my info., you can target centers at where you can teach English and those ppl will deal with you per hour "I use to know that from my foreign friend", work as translator part time or remotely "if you have problem with papers" , I think there are many options to make benefit of you language, you can sign up here "https://wuzzuf.net" and upload ur cv, you can find many vacancies "for me and my Egyptian friends it is the main source to find jobs"
sometimes I recommend this to my foreign friends, to teach online via verbling.com or italk, till u find an appropriate job

last point, security, look any country has insecure places and sometimes harassment with different levels and ratios, I won't say Egypt is the safest place ever, but not the worse ...
It depends where you are, I dont think you may be at all places, so if u ask me honestly as a foreign female u may feel insecure but a little bit
this is just my opinion....Good luck

Any suggestions on finding a job ? I have no idea what I could even do there.

I would love to work from home remotely. Send me any information. My husband arrives Monday and I will arrive less than a week. I appreciate any and all help. If I can still make the American dollar ... this would be best for me !