Work outside of Dublin

RyderCup

I work in banking (manager rank) and me and my wife have finally decided that we have enough of the rat race and want to move back to the country.

Trouble is I have been looking on the net and buying the provincial newspapers and I cannot find one job which would pay me enough to live on. I dont want anything near what I'm on now (70 - 100k), 40 or 50k would do but there doesn't seem to be anything. I dont really want to stay in banking but it looks like I'll have to.

I reckon I'll need atleast 40k to live which is a significant drop.

Any ideas??

the_syco

What are you certified in, and what do you want to do?

RyderCup

I have a degree in a finance related discipline and I have a list of Banking related courses as long as my arm.

I want to do anything except Banking but it looks like that wont be possible.

oilsheik

I think you'll need to take a 2-3yr view on your move, perhaps an MBA might be your ticket out of banking. I know one guy who did it while working in the bank and when he finished it he went to work for once of his clinets as the MD of the company!!. The company was growing quickly and the founder wasn't skilled enough to manage the growth basically he needed a professional manager to guide the company throught it next phase of development. He couldn't be happier he has full ownership of his own time and has all the tax shields of the self employed. If you have a QFA qualification you can work as a financial advisor/wealth manager might be worth a look.

kluivert

Everyone I know from Dublin whats to move to the west.

Dundalk also seems to be an up and growing place. I live in Monaghan and work there too and manage a trip over to Dundalk most evenings. I have seen it rapidly expand in the last couple of years and place great faith in it in the near future.

Banking Jobs as you said are hard to come by but Company accountants are not.

Check out recruitireland.com and monster.ie for a few jobs.

shoegirl

There is a huge differential between quality of life outside Dublin and in Dublin. To be honest I think in terms of salaries the quality of life is roughly the same on about 75% of the salary.

Thats the way I am looking at it anyway - from my own calculations to live an equivalent lifestyle in Dublin would need 6000 more than in Cork, but if you need to price in costs then its different. Of course, if you are moving from a city area with transport to a rural area with in the vast majority of cases virtually nothing, you need to price in car costs.

Having said that a lot of jobs simply don't exist or are few and far between outside of Dublin, and for that reason, I am looking in the other direction as there are rich pickings for people with my ceritifcations at my career stage in Dublin, but very little outside of Dublin.

I think the reason for this is that a lot of non-Dublin start ups are heavily biased towards entry-level positions (except for maybe the pharma industry) and a lot of these never really mature as they were setup as costcutters in the first place.

Jail8ird

Their M'ment positions are going for 45k+ and they
go out of their way to attract people with no Retail
experience.

They look for hard-workers with good interpersonal skills.

J8