Weekend/part time job...

S.I.R

hello folks , i have been looking for part-time weekend work for a while now.,

i have vast exp in computers and the building trade but can do literally anything the normal job req.

anyone know where i should look ?? checked all the job sites and tbh... its all d***heads paying 8.65 p.h and they pay monthly

i tried fas and the only work i could find was in kildare ( im situated in dublin 4 )

even that fact that i have been trained in one of the hardest trads a person can get ( copper smith - roofing ) i still can get a job

anyone be of any use and direct me to a place where theres actually people looking for honest workers

regards - S.I.R

Dudess

Bars, shops. You recently started a thread asking for advice on what to do with just your junior cert, got a raft of replies, didn't acknowledge a word. Why should this be any different...

John Player

rent boy

Dudess

S.I.R wrote:

i have vast exp in computers and the building trade but can do literally anything the normal job req.

You're 15 (you said so in your other thread). How could you have "vast experience" in anything, or be able to do "literally anything"?

its all d***heads paying 8.65 p.h

Once again, you're 15 and you're looking for part-time work. What do you expect? An excellent salary with benefits? There are people SEVERAL years older than you who work part-time while at college and that's all they're getting.

even that fact that i have been trained in one of the hardest trads a person can get ( copper smith - roofing )

Oh so you've an apprenticeship completed at 15 - impressive.

Think it's time to come back down to earth and just be glad of any part-time job you get. What year were you born? Way back through the mists of time in 1992/91? Christ, there'll be employers looking at your CV who have CLOTHES older than you! Your birth date alone prevents you from getting anything you consider "decent".
Oh yeah, isn't under 16 a breach of child labour laws anyway?

AARRRGH

I agree wholeheartedly with everything Dudess said.

If you are 15/16, €8.65 is good money.

My advice to you would be to go back to school and do your Leaving Certificate, because I assure you there is a reasonable chance you might be on €8.65 for the rest of your life if you scrap the idea of further education.

Dudess

Nothing. I don't understand why a person posts a thread looking for advice, then just abandons it. It's rather rude.

S.I.R

hmm... i subscribed to all the threads i made to ensure that nothing like that would happen but so far no emails notifying me of there being a reply ( nothing in junk or draft folders )

as for 8.65 an hour... id earn more being a city sweeper


ive since making this tread ive gone to more places... might be able to get 8.65 an hour workin in the local maxol garage or 9 flat working in tesco.... so much for being irish might as well reserve my spot on O'Connell bridge

mikemac

On behalf of all boards members and people who owe you a living, I want to say sorry for not getting you a job.

Tbh, the last person I pm'ed about a weekend job was estabancamnibas and he turned out to be the biggest troll in AH all summer.

You think you got rejected for jobs because you're Irish?
You've listed two possible jobs, go apply and come back here once you know the outcome

And if you realy had a trade then you wouldn't be asking for help as there is plenty of work for most qualified tradesmen.

stepbar

At 15, you'd be doing well to get 9 eur an hr TBH. I think you need to lower expectations big time.

Random

S.I.R wrote: »

hmm... i subscribed to all the threads i made to ensure that nothing like that would happen but so far no emails notifying me of there being a reply ( nothing in junk or draft folders )

as for 8.65 an hour... id earn more being a city sweeper


ive since making this tread ive gone to more places... might be able to get 8.65 an hour workin in the local maxol garage or 9 flat working in tesco.... so much for being irish might as well reserve my spot on O'Connell bridge

Then why not be a city sweeper?

S.I.R

you would think that but tbh if the construction trade lasts any longer i think we will all be in shock because after 9/11 almost every small/medium consturction ( all aspects of construction ) companys got killed out... theres still no work... if there is , the cowboys will be there in 5 secs with a team of 100 immagrants ready to take your money.

tradesmen cant get work.


as for tesco and such , i sent my cv to everywhere 3 times , first at the end of the last school year as to try and be lucky and score an early job , then i tryed 2/3 weeks later , still no luck , then i just got fed up , had a life now i feel i should just get a job and try to keep my life on track.

I can get any trade i want but it seems that if i where to get a trade... where the work ?? pierce construction control the construction trade , celtic roofing control roofing , quickitfit control landscaping ( though they are actually good ) and so on so fourth....

maybe if i get a nice loan i could get into college where i might be able to get a job as a marketing director for super quinn and by the time im 40 have that college loan paid off and still not even own myself house let alone flat....

Random

S.I.R wrote: »

you would think that but tbh if the construction trade lasts any longer i think we will all be in shock because after 9/11 almost every small/medium consturction ( all aspects of construction ) companys got killed out... theres still no work... if there is , the cowboys will be there in 5 secs with a team of 100 immagrants ready to take your money.

tradesmen cant get work.


as for tesco and such , i sent my cv to everywhere 3 times , first at the end of the last school year as to try and be lucky and score an early job , then i tryed 2/3 weeks later , still no luck , then i just got fed up , had a life now i feel i should just get a job and try to keep my life on track.

I can get any trade i want but it seems that if i where to get a trade... where the work ?? pierce construction control the construction trade , celtic roofing control roofing , quickitfit control landscaping ( though they are actually good ) and so on so fourth....

maybe if i get a nice loan i could get into college where i might be able to get a job as a marketing director for super quinn and by the time im 40 have that college loan paid off and still not even own myself house let alone flat....

This was my attitude too. I wanted everything but could find nothing. In the end I just became a lazy bum and ran up some debts.

See where I am now. Rejoice!

Go get a job and get some cash .. work from there. Take a job even if you don't like it - it's easier to find a job when you're in one.

stepbar

Sounds like you have a bit of an attitude problem there :rolleyes:. Swallow your pride and go back to school.

the_syco

S.I.R wrote: »

checked all the job sites and tbh... its all d***heads paying 8.65 p.h and they pay monthly

Sorry, but €8.65 is the minimum if you're 18 and older... which means they can pay you less. Do the LC, or get used to minimum wage for the next few years.

Gauge

I find it interesting how you're willing to blame your 'problems' on immigrants, 9/11 (???), and 'cowboys', when all you need to do is face up to these facts:

1- You are 15.
2- You have no qualifications.
3- You have a terrible, TERRIBLE attitude to work. You're not even entitled to €8.65 an other so you should be bloody delighted if you're able to get even that. You're also acting like you're above education- you're not.

You've an excuse for every obstacle you've faced so far and oddly enough, none of them are your fault. Fairly convenient too, the 'immagrants' have taken over the workforce which means you don't even have to try to find a job! How handy!

Here are the facts: You are a 15 year old with no life experience, no education and a terrible attitude. The immigrants you complain about could teach you a thing or two about a good work ethic, which you so obviously lack. You have 2 choices- go back to school and get your LC and then go on to learn a trade, or drop out now and try and find yourself one of these minimum wage jobs you, an uneducated teenager, would be extremely LUCKY to get. A JC is not an education- in the eyes of your future boss you are uneducated, sorry to say.

No, you can't get any trade you want. Life's not like that. It's hard enough to get hired between the ages of 16-18 now, let alone as an under-16. Suck it up and get a job in Super Valu, quit blaming your problems on convenient external factors which have no basis in reality, and take a nice long look at yourself and see what you can do to help yourself out.

And seriously, blaming it on 9/11? Come on. Either way, good luck.

Edit: By the way, it is illegal for you to work more than 8 hours a week. You are entitled to a minimum of €6.06 an hour. If a job offers you €8.65, they're doing you a massive favour and you'd be a fool to think you deserve more.

the_syco

Gauge wrote: »

1- You are 15.
2- You have no qualifications.
3- You have a terrible, TERRIBLE attitude to work. You're not even entitled to €8.65 an other so you should be bloody delighted if you're able to get even that. You're also acting like you're above education- you're not.

Agreed. At 16 I was earning £2 (t'was before the Euro came in) an hour, peeling carrots. Apprenticeships then were plentiful. 16 was the age to do one. Now, most places want at least an LC. Why? Because they know that they can get someone with an LC. OP: you talk of being able to do "any" apprenticeship, yet you can't find one... STFU, cop on, and either get one, or do the LC.

Wishbone Ash

S.I.R wrote: »

i have vast exp in computers and the building trade

At 15!

i have been trained in one of the hardest trads a person can get

Again, at 15!

looking for honest workers

You - honest?

S.I.R wrote: »

id earn more being a city sweeper

Of course you would. A roadsweeper is a reasonably paid, secure job.

S.I.R wrote: »

tradesmen cant get work

Ever tried getting a plumber, electrician, carpenter, tiler etc?

had a life now

And again, at 15?

Conar

Lads don't forget he's only 15, give him a break.

S.I.R. you need to either get some qualifications or be prepared to start at the bottom.
There's no point bitching about 9/11 or immigrants (which I agree with others here are pretty lame excuses) as it won't help you get a job.

You live at home I assume, so have no mortgage, no car loan, no college loans. Even 8 euro an hour is 320 quid a week.
Give 50 to your parents.
Spend 70 on Dutch Gold.
50 on the cinema.
50 on computer games.
Still 100 left for ****s and giggles.

Seems like the sweet life to me.

It must be difficult trying to join the workplace when the celtic tiger is coming to an end and you have no qualifications but at the end of the day no one owes you anything and its up to you to make your way through life now.

Best of luck.

AARRRGH

The world owes you nothing and you only get back what you put in. Scrapping education and refusing to work means you have a sad life of pain ahead of you.

You're 15. You have no idea what the real world is like. It'll be years before you begin to understand how the world works.

Listen to people who are older and wiser than you. Either go back to school or cop on and face reality: earning **** money is all you're worth right now.

Dudess

S.I.R wrote: »

you would think that but tbh if the construction trade lasts any longer i think we will all be in shock because after 9/11 almost every small/medium consturction ( all aspects of construction ) companys got killed out... theres still no work... if there is , the cowboys will be there in 5 secs with a team of 100 immagrants ready to take your money.

tradesmen cant get work.

Hilarious. The wise, knowing words of a 15-year-old.

as for tesco and such , i sent my cv to everywhere 3 times , first at the end of the last school year as to try and be lucky and score an early job , then i tryed 2/3 weeks later , still no luck , then i just got fed up

So... you think that just because you sent them your CV, they should give you a job? Ever considered the fact that you're too young for them to hire you yet?

had a life now i feel i should just get a job and try to keep my life on track.

I can get any trade i want but it seems that if i where to get a trade...

Can you now? That's not arrogant at all...

where the work ?? pierce construction control the construction trade , celtic roofing control roofing , quickitfit control landscaping ( though they are actually good ) and so on so fourth....

Where are you getting these ramblings from?

maybe if i get a nice loan i could get into college

Maybe if you did the leaving cert you could get into college.

and by the time im 40 have that college loan paid off and still not even own myself house let alone flat....

Ok that does it. You're well and truly talking out of your arse.

Conar wrote:

Lads don't forget he's only 15, give him a break.

Yeah exactly. He should know better. I've yet to meet another 15-year-old with that attitude - that they've done it all and the world owes them. Ridiculous, deluded nonsense.
OP, come down from the clouds.

S.I.R

what attitude ?? i was born poor with no house brought up in corr duff then in blanchards town then gardener street...


i had a great childhood ,

anyways:

The world owes be nothing but when employs take on am immigrant over an actual Irish person with pps and all the legit info.... you know theres something wrong.

Conar

S.I.R wrote: »

The world owes be nothing but when employs take on am immigrant over an actual Irish person with pps and all the legit info.... you know theres something wrong.

Thats where you're wrong man.
An employer is going to employ the best person for the job at the best price he can get or the best trade-off off both criteria.

Tell me, when you go shopping for food do you always pay more for the irish brands or do you buy whatever is cheapest? And would you make sure to buy it in SuperValue or another Irish company or would you buy it in Tesco's or LIDL if it was half the price.
Also, do you see anything wrong with Australian companies hiring Irish people when they are there for a year knowing that there are unemployed nationals?

This is how the world works.
I know it may seem like everyones picking on you in this thread but they're really just trying to point out the reality of the matter.

neil_hosey

Funniest Thread ever!

OP,

Go back to school, do your leaving. Go to college (if your clever enough > 300 pnts) otherwise a trade.

4 years later, get a job.

My girlfriend is an immigrant. She has a great job, and a great degree, im pretty sure if you applied for her job, she would get picked even though she is an 'immagrant', even though clearly you are superior with your never ending knowledge of banking.

Dont get into a habit of blaming things on immigrants.

neil_hosey

S.I.R wrote: »

what attitude ?? i was born poor with no house brought up in corr duff then in blanchards town then gardener street...


i had a great childhood ,

anyways:

The world owes be nothing but when employs take on am immigrant over an actual Irish person with pps and all the legit info.... you know theres something wrong.

Oh!! by the way, its spelt Corduff, and dont play the poor card either, it doesnt work. Never affected me.

Conar

neil_hosey wrote: »

Dont get into a habit of blaming things on immigrants.

Very important advice here worth noting.
Try not to think of them as immigrants and think of them as fellow EU citizens.

Sure don't forget about all the culchies that steal the good jobs in Dublin too.
Or all those Leixlip heads that steal the good jobs in Blanch.
Or that guy from Coolmine stealing the job in the sweet shop in Corduff....etc

AARRRGH

S.I.R you clearly do not understand the concept of personal responsibility whatsoever. Without taking control of your life, and realising life is exactly what you make of it, you're ****ed mate.

Leaving school at 15, blaming immigrants for lack of jobs (? or whatever you're trying to blame them for), and not working because people don't respect your skillz enough... well done. You've set yourself up nicely on the road to failure and unhappiness.

girliegirl

Ah lads lay off, he's only 15!! ... i'm sure that many of you were as impatient for your lives to start when you were younger.

I do agree, however OP, that you should go back to school. If you want your CV to stand out from the rest then its the only way. Otherwise, there's not much point in typing up a CV cuz there'll be nothing on it.

S.I.R

its grand now , got work doing web dezign and repairing badly modified car's , thanks for the help