Part time jobs

Well I'll soon be moving back to Dublin for college and need to start looking for the part time job. I don't really know where to start though. In the past I've got stuff from the SU Jobs mailing list but it's always been random promotions and I need something more regular. I don't really know where to look since all the jobs sites I see seem to be for full time work. I'm only wanting a couple of evenings a week or 8 hours at the weekend, and it has to fit around college. What do you guys do? I always hear people in lectures talking about working in hostals and stuff, but where do you apply? I was thinking of ringing random places but it's always easier when you have tips on the places most likely to hire you. Somewhere close to Trinity would be best. Anyone know anywhere?

Agent Smith

try the su Shop, just pop into house six and ask to speak to patrick



Joe

Rourky

I'm back in Dublin next week - anyone out there know of any part time work for someone with unparalled charm and good looks?

Papillon87

Gerald Noisy Signal wrote:

Somewhere close to Trinity would be best. Anyone know anywhere?

Try all the shops on Grafton St. I'm not joking! My friend literally walked into a few last week and by the end of the day had a job for weekends during college. But if you don't want shop work, I suppose that's not a lot of good. Luckily I've been working in the same place every summer and during the school years (except this year with the L.C.) since I did my J.C. and they are really accommodating so I'll be staying there during college hopefully!

ApeXaviour

Rourky wrote:

I'm back in Dublin next week - anyone out there know of any part time work for someone with unparalled charm and good looks?

Charity pimp.

I'll throw rocks at you though

Papillon87

ApeXaviour wrote:

Charity pimp.

I like to call them "Chuggers" (charity muggers). What is the criteria they look for when deciding who to corner? Because I have noticed, no matter how many other people are walking towards them, as soon as they have spotted me, their eyes fix upon my bowed head (trying to be inconspicuous) and they let everyone else stream past as they wave frantically at me even tho I'm a mile away from them!!

Don't make eye contact. Ever.

sully-gormo

I got a job in centra there, working weekends, though im planning to quit in october. Dont really think id be able to keep it up with work/goin out.

Oh, and its a boring job with shítty low pay

How much do they pay you in Centra?

Time Magazine

As far as I know, Centras are franchises so it'd probably vary from each store. €7.65 would be the going rate for most of those jobs, though some round it up to €8 or €8.50 to attract (albeit very slightly) higher-calibre staff.

exiztone

Minimum wage is up to 8.12 now. Use your Irish nationality as an assett, some of these places are very strict when it comes to English and foreign people... then again, most aren't.

Time Magazine

The minimum wage is not €8.12 now.

The minimum wage for a mature adult worker is €7.65.

That also acts as the market clearing minimum wage for over-18s.

exiztone

Don't tell my boss, he thinks it's 8.12 and I'm not complaining.

sully-gormo

Im paid €7/hr on saturday and time and a third on a sunday(roundabout 9.30)
I kinda suspected it was less than the min. wage!! Is there some authority I can rat them out to??

Nietzschean

if your parttime the min-wage is different i think, but enda will know better....

shay_562

sully-gormo wrote:

Im paid €7/hr on saturday and time and a third on a sunday(roundabout 9.30)
I kinda suspected it was less than the min. wage!! Is there some authority I can rat them out to??

If you're in your first two years of employment after the age of 18, you're entitled to 6.12 for the first year and 6.89 for the second year. Could that be it?

Info on regulations, complaining and such is here.

sully-gormo

balls, i thought i had a case there.

Time Magazine

Ibid wrote:

The minimum wage for a mature adult worker is €7.65.

You're clearly not mature . Perhaps I should have used the word "experienced" instead. Shay, for once, is right. You're only entitled to €7.65 after two years. However...

That also acts as the market clearing minimum wage for over-18s.

It's really quite easy (depending on certain factors, of course) to get a job that pays €7.65 or above within your first two years. Have a look around.

Oh and 1.33x pay on a Sunday is more than legally acceptable; Xtra-vision get away with 1.2x.

sully-gormo wrote:

I kinda suspected it was less than the min. wage!! Is there some authority I can rat them out to??

The relevant body is the the Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment, more specifically these guys. If you ever have any problems in employment issues that can't be sorted out internally, they're only about 20 mins walk from TCD and will give you free advice on your chances on any action that you may take etc. They get the Ibid BigThumbsUp Seal of Approval™.

sully-gormo

Oh i know all that now, never heard of the lower rate thingy for first timers etc. Ive got a job in Dublin City Council next summer so i should be on a decent rate there (and its flexi time too, yay!!)
Centra isint too bad, theres this place I worked last year(my friends dad owns it, its called the Wise Owl, bookstores) and there i got 6.50! And ive heard of ppl getting as little as 5.50!!

Crash

heehee, i'm getting a 56 cent an hour pay rise. while it sounds ****, the best part is that they have to make it retroactive :P

shay_562

Ibid wrote:

Shay, for once, is right.

Nothing to add, really. Just wanted to call attention to it.

Ibid wrote:

Oh and 1.33x pay on a Sunday is more than legally acceptable; Xtra-vision get away with 1.2x.

Oh, how I miss the heady days of 1.2x Sundays. Right now I'm down to 1.125x.

Papillon87

shay_562 wrote:

Oh, how I miss the heady days of 1.2x Sundays. Right now I'm down to 1.125x.

Wow, I've definitely been taking my employers for granted! I thought double time on a Sunday was standard!

RagShagBill

How many hours do you guys reckon is too much to work during college? I've found what appears a fantastic job - not sure about the salary, it's the area excited about - but it's 39 hours a week (evenings and weekends). I'm doing French and Italian (TSM), so I'm not sure what sort of hours I'd have for college - but take an educated guess and tell me if 39 is way too much?

europerson

One-and-one-eighth-time?! I never knew such an abomination existed! I'm happy with my Saturday time-and-a-half, Sunday double-time, and Bank Holidays treble-time. Oh the joys of the public service! I'm actually finished work now, and they're going to pay me for the leave days I didn't take... at Sunday rates!

sully-gormo

europerson wrote:

One-and-one-eighth-time?! I never knew such an abomination existed! I'm happy with my Saturday time-and-a-half, Sunday double-time, and Bank Holidays treble-time. Oh the joys of the public service! I'm actually finished work now, and they're going to pay me for the leave days I didn't take... at Sunday rates!

Where do you work, its not Iarnród Eireann are ya? Ive a friend who works there and he made a grand in one week(there was a bank hol in there)!!!! Public Jobs pay crazy amounts of money.


Oh and ragshagbill, 39 hours is a normal full-time working week so id say that on top of college would be waaaaay too much. I mean itd be doable but youd have almost no free time. say you worked full saturdays and sundays-16 hours. that leaves 23 hours;or 4andahalf hours an evening during the week-- too much imo

How many hours do you guys reckon is too much to work during college? I've found what appears a fantastic job - not sure about the salary, it's the area excited about - but it's 39 hours a week (evenings and weekends). I'm doing French and Italian (TSM), so I'm not sure what sort of hours I'd have for college - but take an educated guess and tell me if 39 is way too much?

39 hours is WAY too much. That's like a full time job! IMO there's no way you can do that and hope to do in any way well at college. I do French and Spanish TSM and had about 18 hours a week in first year but spread out so I was in 9-5 almost every day. There were lots of gaps but that still meant hanging around college all day and the last thing I wanted to do after that was go and work all evening. In first year I worked 15 hours a week, and that was more than enough for me. It was 2 hours every evening, and that meant not arriving home and eating dinner until after 10. Then to to be in for 9 I had to get up at 7 the next day. It doesn't leave time for anything else. You are supposed to be doing a good bit of work outside class hours as well, I did the minimum but it was still about 6-8 hours a week, when I didn't have essays or papers, and I wasn't reading most of the books. I also was a beginner in Spanish, so that made it harder. I don't know if you're a beginner in Italian, but if so you'll have to put even more work in. IMO it is impossible to work 39 hours a week while in college. The maximum, if you want to do OK in the essays/exams would be about 20.

shay_562

europerson wrote:

One-and-one-eighth-time?! I never knew such an abomination existed!

Neither did I until I started at this job - it's a small, family-owned business so they're not used to dealing with staff. Ah well - I was on Enda's XtraVision rates before that (time-and-a-fifth), so this isn't actually a huge step down. And it's still double-time for bank holidays, so that's something.

RagShagBill wrote:

How many hours do you guys reckon is too much to work during college? I've found what appears a fantastic job - not sure about the salary, it's the area excited about - but it's 39 hours a week (evenings and weekends). I'm doing French and Italian (TSM), so I'm not sure what sort of hours I'd have for college - but take an educated guess and tell me if 39 is way too much?

Like the others have said, 39 a week is far too much. IMO, 20 would be the absolute maximum - you'll have at least 20-odd hours a week of lectures, tutorials and language labs, plus a good few hours for study and homework (especially important in Arts courses, since they expect you to put a large portion of the effort in without too much direction), plus you'll need to have some kind of social life (one would hope). 39 hours is like working a 9-5 job and expecting to have the time and energy to do a full-time college course around that.

RagShagBill

Thanks Gerald Noisy Signal and Suly. I had figured as much, but thought I'd stick it out there on the off chance that it'd work. Looks nice though, doesn't it?

Edit: And thanks to Shay also.

Black_Couch

28 hours a week was too much for me. You don't want your weekends to be destroyed with work plus two late nights. I've my eyes peeled for a handy number but they are hard to come by. I think two week nights and most saturdays would do me fine. Say about 15 hours. Most large companies are completely inflexible if you want time off etc.

sully-gormo

Do any of ye get jobs around christmas? Presumably thered be lots of positions going round that time. When would you usually get off for christmas? What christmas exams would there be(for Theoretical Physics in my case)?

In JF I think there was only Algebra examined at Christmas, though from talking to someone I know who did JF last year they had two exams. Still, the exams would be taking place on the 12th or so of December, which would lead plenty of time for a Christmas job.

Best job you could find for Christmas would be the An Post jobs where you are a postman. Fantastic pay, easy work. Should be an announcement on the SU jobs list (e-mail 'subscribe' in the subject bar to sujobs@tcd.ie if you want to be on it) in November or so.

[edit] It normally goes like this - college ends on the 9th or so of December. Some people have exams on the Monday/Tuesday afterwards (with worse souls having them on Thursday or Friday). Wednesday is free because it's the open day. Agus sin é.

Lorr

I dunno if this is the right place to ask but myself and my friend were wondering how you get a job as a tour guide in Trinity? We've seen them around and were just wondering how they got the job, seems quite handy.

snappieT

Lorr,
Welcome to boards.ie

Tip #1: Don't resurrect old threads. Start a new one if your question hasn't already been answered.

The tour guides have already been hired for this year, but I'm sure someone in the Gift Shop or similar would be able to tell you.

If you're looking to be a tour guide, why not look further afield like in Dublin Castle, or on the Viking Splash rides? I don't know how you'd become a Trinity tour guide, but there are other ones which deal with part of Dublin which may have openings.

Crash

You do not want to know how you become a guide for Trinity Tours

Lorr

Thanks everyone. I don't actually want to do it but a friend of mine is trying to find out. Spending my summer with American Tourists isn't my idea of fun! (No offense any American Tourists reading this)

Sorry for reposting in the thread!

Attractive Nun

&#231 wrote: »

You do not want to know how you become a guide for Trinity Tours

I have certainly heard some ...unusual... rumours about how those jobs are allocated. I'll put it this way - I didn't apply.

Time Magazine

Lorr,

The tours are organised by Honorary Treasurer of the CSC and assistant Junior Dean, Mr. Joe O'Gorman, M.A., M.Phil. A very polite man who I'm sure you could email with your enquiry.

As has been mentioned, the tour guides have been hired for the year. To be honest, this most often seems to be the case and I wouldn't hold your breath looking for a job as there seems to be little staff rotation.

Awayindahils

As Ibid said there is little staff rotation.

This summer people who have left college for a year are back doing the tours. One is usually approached to be a tour guide rather than vice versa.

Lorr

Attractive Nun wrote:

I have certainly heard some ...unusual... rumours about how those jobs are allocated. I'll put it this way - I didn't apply.

I think I want to hear this...

europerson

Myth wrote:

If you're looking to be a tour guide, why not look further afield like in Dublin Castle

The application procedure for summer-time employment as a guide at sites controlled by the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland begins around early winter every year, with interviews being held in March, usually. They're generally very competitive, especially for popular sites like Dublin Castle. If you take a job in Dublin Castle, you would be expected to cover one or two of Government Buildings, Farmleigh and Áras an Uachtaráin as well. You can appreciate the obvious cross-overs between these four. The job isn't as handy as you might think. You really need to know about wherever you work inside out, with a knowledge of every square inch of the building. This can require a lot of effort, time and reading, especially for sites with long and complex histories like Dublin Castle. It really helps to have an interest in whatever period of history is applicable to the site, at which you would like to work. It's very different in the private sector though, since there's a lot less specialisation in things like Viking Splash Tours, etc. Having said all that, it's a very rewarding and interesting job (with permanent civil service levels of pay too), and it really gives you a good spread of the work spectrum from dealing with the public to paperwork and administration to becoming an expert on certain types of places.

RATM

If anyones looking for a part time job that pays far above the crappy wages in call centers and Spars,etc you should consider An Post-either as a cashier in one of the larger Post Offices or at the Dublin Mails Center on the Nangor Road.Im out there- the hours arent great for uni night life ( Mon -Fri,6-10pm,though you can get into town for 10.30ish and there are showers and changing rooms at work ) but the cash is very good-€14ph and at 8pm the rate rises to time and a quater,ie €17.50ph !

I usually work Sundays 10-6pm as well and thats paid at time and seven eights,its €203 for a days work,which combined with the Mon-Fri pay I come out with just over €500pw.

Its kinda funny,they do take on students and are especially interested in those who can type well for data entry,but there are very few students working there.Maybe its because its a bit of a spin out on the bus and people are turned off.Those students that do work there swear by it,especially around Christmas when theres bundles of overtime and you are on your uni holliers.Last year a bunch of us worked our butts off for over 60 hours a week for the two weeks leading up to Christmas and although I nearly fell asleep at the Christmas Dinner table my jaw dropped when my payslip arrived in the New Year-over €2,200 ! Score ! With that I paid cash for a newish scooter and insurance and now I can buzz out from Trinity through rush hour traffic in around 20 minutes.

As far as I know they are not recruiting for the Mail Center at the mo but they definately will be taking on loads of people from the 2nd week of Nov.Its a 3-6 week contract and then those that shine are asked back in Janurary.

Its quite flexible too,getting evenings off is generally never a problem as long as you give a weeks notice and dont take the piss on it too often.They also allowed me to take 6 weeks off before my exams and then come back in the summer which I am eternally grateful for.
The only downside is that you have to work every evening of the week,including Friday but you do have the whole weekend free if you want to study or party.
It is truly a top job and even if you only work 2/3 weeks over Christmas it can still leave you with enough beer money well into the nest year.

mattysullivan

Hello folks I'm on the hunt for a specific type of job: one where you don't have to work very hard.

In all seriousness, I'll be doing English, so I think I could only afford a job that allowed me to squeeze in a nice bit of reading in between my duties. Obviously it would have to be a job that is mind-numbingly boring and poorly paid, or else the position would be filled.

Any suggestions?

fonpokno

Teach grinds or a musical instrument. Stick a sign up in a supermarket or the local library.

Make your own timetable and charge whatever you want basically.

myfatherrsson

RATM wrote: »

If anyones looking for a part time job that pays far above the crappy wages in call centers and Spars,etc you should consider An Post-either as a cashier in one of the larger Post Offices or at the Dublin Mails Center on the Nangor Road.Im out there- the hours arent great for uni night life ( Mon -Fri,6-10pm,though you can get into town for 10.30ish and there are showers and changing rooms at work ) but the cash is very good-€14ph and at 8pm the rate rises to time and a quater,ie €17.50ph !

That seems almost too good to be true! So do you just call into the GPO or a local post office and hand in a CV?

Anyone know where theres an Argos in Dublin? I know Stephens Green SC and probably city centre....anywhere else?

shay_562

myfathersson wrote:

Anyone know where theres an Argos in Dublin?

Store list. They're not all listed under "Dublin", so take a careful look through. Argos is a deadly job if you can get it - I worked in the stock room in Stephen's Green for ages, very straightforward and good craic. Any job not involving customers is a winner in my book.

disneyonfire

myfatherrsson wrote: »

That seems almost too good to be true! So do you just call into the GPO or a local post office and hand in a CV?

If youre going to apply for the Dublin Mails Centre jobs you just ring up and ask them about it, but to be honest you'll have a lot of competition this year. A family member of mine works there and is involved in the interview process and he said they've been having calls from people about Christmas work since July.

Millsy91

Just checked the Argos recruitment site, no vacancies in Dublin

Apparenly Penny's let go almost all their staff recently and are open for hiring start of October, so while there will be alot of applicants, I hear they are great to work for and not too shabby pay.

I'm currently working in my local Costcutters, but at €7/hour, I think I'll need to look elsewhere, preferably in the city centre, would be the handiest. Anyone know of any vacancies or any shops taking on some new people?

myfatherrsson

shay_562 wrote: »

Store list. They're not all listed under "Dublin", so take a careful look through. Argos is a deadly job if you can get it - I worked in the stock room in Stephen's Green for ages, very straightforward and good craic. Any job not involving customers is a winner in my book.

I know I worked in stock last year and twas brilliant! 9.08 an hour lik!!

disneyonfire wrote: »

If youre going to apply for the Dublin Mails Centre jobs you just ring up and ask them about it, but to be honest you'll have a lot of competition this year. A family member of mine works there and is involved in the interview process and he said they've been having calls from people about Christmas work since July.

That sounds lik a tough gig to break so! Where is this Dublin Mails Centre? What kind of work is it as well? Typing, sorting? thanks!

disneyonfire

It's out around the Nass road just before Newlands and as far as Im aware most of the work is sorting.

Seeing as how its such good wages its probably worth a shot because you never know, but I wouldnt get my hopes up.

snappieT

Millsy91 wrote: »

Just checked the Argos recruitment site, no vacancies in Dublin

Ha, as if any manager would bother to update that (and I think it only deals with management level only anyways). Just drop a CV into the 3 city centre stores once the posters go up for christmas hiring. Don't do it before that happens (or you actually ask if they're hiring), the CV will never be looked at again.