Dont Want To Live Off Parents !

plastic-man

So , hopefully I will be going to college in September and I planned on working pretty much for the whole summer. However now I find out that the place I usually work in cannot take on part time employees this summer, which sucks! I was going to buy my first car at the end of the summer and now im boggled!

Can anyone tell me of any really good pay jobs?? Although I doubt anything can rival my old pay cheque! I was earning €13.30 last summer and time and a half every bit of overtime during the week, and then double time on Saturdays and Sundays! so I was averaging about €650 per week!

So, any ideas???

thanks
plastic-man

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cudnt think of anywhere that would pay a 17/18 year old dat kinda money tbh

plastic-man

Yep the money was absolutely stupendous, worked there for three years! I think I've come to terms that I'm not going to earn that much this summer, but there must be some employers out there who pay part-timers well!???

I'm 18 by the way, just sitting my Leaving Cert this year. Amazing CV and fantastic cover letter.

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What were you doing?
get a job in mcdonalds/dunnes/penneys/tesco

plastic-man

Lets just say the sum I earned was all tax payers money! I wouldnt mind cinema or xtra vision or a hotel.

mikemac

Do you realy need a car? Between tax, insurance (for a young lad!), repairs and fuel it's going to cost you mega money.

Most students don't have cars, can you maybe go without it

Were you working in the Revenue?

AARRRGH

plastic-man wrote: »

I wouldnt mind cinema or xtra vision or a hotel.

Have you tried applying to any of the above?

I worked as a bar man for a while. It's good fun. And because you're surrounded by booze (and you drink on the job...) you save a fortune cause you don't go to the pub anymore.

plastic-man

gonna hand out about 10-15 cv next week to hotels, cinemas etc. And of course I need a car, I need to arrive in college every morning ..

nesf

plastic-man wrote: »

gonna hand out about 10-15 cv next week to hotels, cinemas etc. And of course I need a car, I need to arrive in college every morning ..

You're going to live at home, work and drive into college every day? I think the confusion was that people thought you were going to rent near college and keep the car.

RedXIV

Would you not consider letting the car idea slip for a while? i paid (still am paying ) for myself through college which is rent and registration fees and that's not easy. I had two jobs for most of my time here. Get a place to rent near college to live because 1)car's are SERIOUSLY expensive 2)half the point of college is moving out on your own.

As for jobs, find a tesco. on a good week in tesco i was making €500 and i had a bar job as well, handing an extra €300 with that. you'll be knackered but you'll be wealthy

nesf

RedXIV wrote: »

As for jobs, find a tesco. on a good week in tesco i was making €500 and i had a bar job as well, handing an extra €300 with that. you'll be knackered but you'll be wealthy

Yeah most people I've known who did it, worked themselves very hard until Christmas and then slacked back on the hours after January or so, living off the surplus they'd built up earlier in the year. This is with UCC and final exams only happening in May though. With semesterisation like they have in NUIG it'd be trickier I imagine.

damnyanks

The money you'd spend on a car could easily be spent on renting a flat near college with other students.

You'd have a much better time doing this. Whenever I hear about people pissing off to the states for the summer the main thing they seem to enjoy is the freedom (They all live at home with mom and dad during term)

nesf

damnyanks wrote: »

The money you'd spend on a car could easily be spent on renting a flat near college with other students.

Yeah but you'd lose the "there's always something in the fridge and/or freezer" aspect of home, along with someone else paying the ESB bill, heating bill, having central heating, having Sky/whatever, etc.

I had to move out of home to go to college. It was a big wake up call having to do/fund all the things myself.

damnyanks

How can that be a bad thing

MIN2511

It is hard to not depend on bank mum&dad I couldn’t have survived college without them so fair play to you…
My opinion, keep the car, stay at home and live with the parents (free rent, food, mammy does the laundry) and work as hard as you can.
I don't think you would have a problem getting a job, you have the experience, your problem would be the salary/wages you would earn

RedXIV

nesf wrote: »

Yeah but you'd lose the "there's always something in the fridge and/or freezer" aspect of home, along with someone else paying the ESB bill, heating bill, having central heating, having Sky/whatever, etc.

I had to move out of home to go to college. It was a big wake up call having to do/fund all the things myself.

Ya have to learn sometime. there's only a year between me and my bro but he can't cook, use a washing machine, shop intelligently, clean properly among other things. at 20 i'd call that a problem. I'm only 21 but i'm pretty confident i could keep a house running by myself. Thats the best thing i've learned from my time in college

nesf

RedXIV wrote: »

Ya have to learn sometime.

Oh, definitely. But it is an advantage of sorts of staying at home for your college years. You can focus on partying and studying, maybe in a 70/30 percentage or something like that.

RedXIV

nesf wrote: »

Oh, definitely. But it is an advantage of sorts of staying at home for your college years. You can focus on partying and studying, maybe in a 70/30 percentage or something like that.

whoa, you have waaaaaaaaay too much study planned there