Jobs

Black_Couch

SU jobs email, I just realised it says that I got an email from Alan MacSimoin on the 01/01/1970! Obviously hes been around in the Employment Service a while!

Hows everybody getting on finding jobs anyway? I've an interview for a telesales position tomorrow, fingers crossed.

I look forward to not being employed this summer.

Font22

go to recruitment agencies guys!! u get such good jobs with great pay.

Font22

Font22 wrote:

go to recruitment agencies guys!! u get such good jobs with great pay.

No, I was actually being serious! I'll have worked for a year, and will be doing some nixers but won't be having a proper job (thankfully!)

Pet

I look forward to having a job and not being poor anymore.

I've got a full summer though, not a lot of room for anything.

June 15 - move out of halls
June 16 - 23 - unpack, get **** together, various appointments and the like
June 26-Aug 2 - CTYI
August 5 - jaw surgery (followed by 3 weeks of looking like a monster, which will be used to study and do some college work)
Aug 24 - 31 - concerts, Edinburgh
Sept 1 - 15 - study for supplementals, catch up on other college work
Sept 23 - 30 - Berlin
October - move back into halls, college, etc.

In between, I've another part time job, various band-related stuff, piano and drum grade exams, etc. Hmm. No relaxing, but sure I'll sleep when I'm dead..

Thirdfox

Be on holidays for most of the summer - (partly to learn a language in a different country). If all goes well will take a year off from Trinity and study in Beijing University law school. I'm not looking forward to hearing lectures about the law in Chinese :eek: (because I won't be able to keep up ) !

John

There's a lot to be done around my house so I'll be working at home for far less than minimum wage. I'm going away for a few weeks in August and taking sporadic trips to music events throughout the summer. **** work, that's the man talking about needing wage. You don't want to work for the man do you?

shay_562

I look forward to not being employed this summer

I look forward to summer being over so I don't have to be employed any more. I've planned something vaguely resembling a budget, which should allow me to not work from mid-September right through until after exams 2007. Working through college = giant pile o' ****e.

Bartronilic

I am going to america next year if i don't get rejected for being born 2000 miles away (i won't as far as i know) cos even though i have a job this summer I think it'd be better to be unemployed with everyone else in another country having fun

Nietzschean

Black_Couch wrote:

from Alan MacSimoin on the 01/01/1970!

for those that are nerdy enough but don't know, 1/1/1970 is a special date for unix machines, its when they measure time from.(unix timestamp is the number of seconds since then). So corrupted headers setting the time/date portion to 0 would on a unix machine be recognised as 1/1/1970..

Tricity Bendix

Nietzschean wrote:

1/1/1970 is a special date for unix machines, its when they measure time from.(unix timestamp is the number of seconds since then). So corrupted headers setting the time/date portion to 0 would on a unix machine be recognised as 1/1/1970

In all honesty, one of the most interesting posts I've seen on b.ie.

On topic, I've been working in an academic library for nearly two years now. Easiest job EVER. I get paid €12 an hour for doing not much at all. And, as I'm working in the public service, I can't be fired! The only problem is the tedious boredom, which is due to step up several gears during the summer months due to the lack of students.

Before that I had a summer job in AIB/BNY Fund Management working in the Data Management section. Fun stuff!

Andrew 83

I'm going to be teaching in CTYI for a month from early July to early August. 6-7 and 8-12 year olds for a week and 13-16 for 3 weeks.

xebec

London and Investment Banking for me. Will be long hours but really loooking forward to living in London. Going to make the most of my time there - go to a few sporting events, maybe catch a show, even some sightseeing! Not sure if IB is the area I want to work in but guess I'll find out this summer :-)

europerson

This may be a stupid question, but say I see an ad with the rate of pay given as €14 per hour, that's the gross pay, isn't it? I'm really not au fait with the income tax system, and I really want to avoid messing up everything. I know I'll have a PAYE job, which should make it easier. Also, I was talking to my aunt last night, and she was saying that when I go back to college, I'll be able to claim back some of the income tax I paid on earnings from a summer job. Is this true or was it just the case when she was at college (the late 1970's-early 1980's)?

xeduCat

Advertised rates are almost always gross rates - everyone's tax liability is potentially different (e.g. reliefs, other incomes, family, etc) so it would be impossible, even with PAYE employers, to state net wage.

As for claiming, you should be OK anyway. Your tax is annual (calendar year) although if PAYE, deducted weekly. However, you have already been 'allocated' about 25 weeks worth of credits by not working (around e60 per week, so e1500), which means that you can earn e7500 (plus what you accumulate during the summer) without paying any tax. Assuming they get your files in order quickly and all that. If you do end up earning enough to pay weekly-calculated-tax on, you are entitled to it back afterwards if your overall liability for tax is less than e3000 (i.e. income e15,000), although getting it can be timeconsuming.

The silly numbers above is because the current Irish system works off credits rather than tax free allowances - you get income, multiply by 20% to get tax liability, subtract credits, and that's what you're owed. Everyone gets a basic credit (for a single person with no other credits it's in the e60 region). You should be fine, in any case. Worst case scenario is it takes you a while to get taxback.

europerson

Thanks, xeduCat.

Black_Couch

Had an interview yesterday and on the way home got 3 more calls for interviews! About time really, must have sent off dozens of cvs at this stage. Had another interview today and 99% sure I've gotten it. There are plenty of jobs out there.

My plan is to save up a wad of cash and then sit back in college and not worry about part-time work. Although that worked fine this year until I got to Christmas.

Crash

I'm not getting any responses - should possibly stop being picky :P

though I did email the old boss to see if someone pulled out and they need me

Black_Couch

http://jobsearch.monster.ie/

http://www.tcd.ie/Careers/vacancies/

http://www.loadzajobs.ie/default.asp

http://www.it-tallaght.ie/current/studentservicesfacilities/careersandappointmentsservice/vacancies/

http://www.fas.ie/jbframe.htm


hope these help crash. The jobs i'm getting responses are for telemarketing ones but i also got one for a language school activity leader and promotional work. Not sure about the latter two at all.

Crash

was that GEOSDublin by any chance? ****ers didn't reply to me despite the fact that all my experience is in that area. dirty bastids.

Ron DMC

I'm working all summer. I really need to save every penny I earn. Repeating the year is expensive apparently.

Black_Couch

&#231 wrote: »

was that GEOSDublin by any chance? ****ers didn't reply to me despite the fact that all my experience is in that area. dirty bastids.

no it wasn't. The four jobs I got an interview for where from them websites.

I know a first year who got an internship with 'one of the big four' Despite the fact that the website specifies "penultimate year"! Hes in more of an accounting course with accounting experience, I wouldn't take an accounting job even if it was with a top company!!! Are all them internships accounting oriented does anyone know?

Agent Smith

Ronny Mitchell wrote:

I'm working all summer. I really need to save every penny I earn. Repeating the year is expensive apparently.

its not that bad....

Crash

Also - promise me the language school thing isn't with "Rockbrook international" :P

Pet

Ronny Mitchell wrote:

I'm working all summer. I really need to save every penny I earn. Repeating the year is expensive apparently.

€4,365 last year, so it might even go up for 2006/07.

http://www.tcd.ie/Treasurers_Office/Fees15.htm

Black_Couch

&#231 wrote: »

Also - promise me the language school thing isn't with "Rockbrook international" :P

no its www.mli-ireland.com but I think this could be just a commute too far. I'll see, still no phonecall back.