What's the best thing to study in this current economic climate?

2tel1

I'm putting this in after hours instead of the college section as I think it applies to a lot of people and could get more input. Some people with good knowledge don't necessarily browse the college section and there will be more interesting answers

So what do you think would be a good thing to study? I'm guessing anything construction related is out the window? What about economics?

Biggins

I'd say study foreign languages. Chinese perhaps!

Mingey

Or Polish & IT.

matrim

get a van / truck license and become a repo man

JP Liz

politics - they get paid the best

Biggins

matrim wrote: »

get a van / truck license and become a repo man

Yea, but first, study self-defence - your going to need it!

Gumbo

environmental engineering or something to do with renewable technology

Heroditas

kceire wrote: »

environmental engineering or something to do with renewable technology

Spot on! This is going to be absolutely massive in this country within the next few years.

Dont be at yourself

environmental engineering or something to do with renewable technology

Bollocks. All this save-the-planet rubbish will be going by the wayside now that we've crashed back down to reality.

Mingey

Get into the weightloss industry. As people get poorer, their diets get crapper.

Captain Darling

Migration patterns.

Gumbo

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

Bollocks. All this save-the-planet rubbish will be going by the wayside now that we've crashed back down to reality.

waste water treatment and control of Dublins flood water is big at the moment. thats why i suggested environmental eng. some of the biggest construction jobs that are ongoining at the moment are all civil works.

Captain Darling

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

Bollocks. All this save-the-planet rubbish will be going by the wayside now that we've crashed back down to reality.

I'm more concerned about keeping the shirt on my back, then saving the whales.



Fcuk you whales!:pac:

Gumbo

Captain Darling wrote: »

I'm more concerned about keeping the shirt on my back, then saving the whales.



Fcuk you whales!:pac:

now if somebody was paying you to think of a plan to help save the whales that would keep the shirt on your back for alot longer, and maybe a nice tie to go with it too:D

CreepingDeath

2tel1 wrote: »

So what do you think would be a good thing to study?

Quantum Physics.... we have a huge natural resource in atomic particles.

admiralofthefleet

the form

wylo

4 years is a long time so you cant predict what will be booming and what will be not, for all we know the housing industry might start picking up again by then, not to mention all the trades that go with it. My guess would be go for something like IT , on a whole the industry has steadied alot and is certainly standing the test of the Irish economic climate. This is not to be mixed up with manufacturing (i.e. Dell closing etc).

Gumbo

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

the form

Captain Darling

kceire wrote: »

now if somebody was paying you to think of a plan to help save the whales that would keep the shirt on your back for alot longer, and maybe a nice tie to go with it too:D

Pinky: What are we doing today, Darling?

Darling: Plan to save the whales!! Mwah mwah mwah.

Heroditas

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

Bollocks. All this save-the-planet rubbish will be going by the wayside now that we've crashed back down to reality.

The save-the-planet stuff may fall by the wayside but the simple fact that fossil fuels will eventually go up in cost again means that renewables will be what people will be looking at to produce electricity and heat in the long term.

jan_kowalski

Go and study Medicine.
No matter what recession, you'll always be fine...

People might not need IT, but they will always need medical services, food and clothes though.

K-9

jan_kowalski wrote: »

Go and study Medicine.
No matter what recession, you'll always be fine...

People might not need IT, but they will always need medical services, food and clothes though.

YEP, wish I was good at Science.

Kensington

Study medicine or just become an undertaker. Two jobs where you'll always be guaranteed work!!

reggiethefirst

The world will always need electronic engineers.














I hope.

Rabies

Study what you want. If you're good at it you'll get hired.

dsmythy

Study Business and how to be a rotten bastarrd. Then set up a water distribution company. The time will come in the near future when people will be dying of thirst due to lack of water in some countries. Even the dirty water will be gone. Entire nations will pay handsomely to survive.

You might need a private army to get your water through the 'Water Wars' battlefields too. Just a heads up on that.

Gumbo

Kensington wrote: »

Study medicine or just become an undertaker. Two jobs where you'll always be guaranteed work!!

and grave diggers! my cousin is a grave digger and his job is as secure as it ever was!

preety morbid job though.

Biggins

Looking at the way things are going, on a serious note...

* I'd consider enviromental climatic studies and/or innovative food production courses.
If (or when) things go pear shaped, its will be to the like of such folk that we will all be seeking help/advice from. Your status will be of "God" by that emergency stage (and you will get all the wimmen too!)

* Biological or nuclear disaster recovery subjects. Sooner or later, by accident or design - one or both are going to haunt us!

rainbow kirby

Addiction counselling. Watching the news is so depressing at the moment it'd drive people to the drink.

funk-you

2tel1 wrote: »

What's the best thing to study in this current economic climate?

The fine art of queuing.

-Funk

muboop1

2tel1 wrote: »

I'm putting this in after hours instead of the college section as I think it applies to a lot of people and could get more input. Some people with good knowledge don't necessarily browse the college section and there will be more interesting answers

So what do you think would be a good thing to study? I'm guessing anything construction related is out the window? What about economics?

Chemical Engineering, mainly they deal in oil refinery's and pharmecutical companies

pharmecutical plants constructed in ireland cost millions to build, and have to be kept open for a set number of years or the companies will take a serious loss, that and no matter how stingey you get you will always need medicine and oil

both companies pay extremly well(highest starting wage on average of any of the engineering courses) also huge demand for them as only places in republic of ireland with Chemical engineering degrees worth their name are UCD and Cork(dunno which college in cork just know there is one! :pac:)

994

Bad to think of "the current economic climate". Your career could last 40+ years; think, what do I want to be in 2025?

Queen-Mise

Anything the government pays for - medicine, teaching, nursing. you cant beat the guaranteed pension & paid sick, and all the rest of the benefits

Tom Trojan

Housing foreclosure refinancing.

Pride Fighter

Arts.

RonMexico

Get someone to learn ya how to be a bra fitter. You can serve the public and get yer jollies at the same time :pac:

Local-womanizer

Pathology,

With all these scum who dont contribute anything to the country getting whacked you might aswell get something off them:pac:

Debt collector.

Insolvencies.

Bear Grylls.

hedgeh0g

Law or medicine. People will always fight and die.

Accountants are doing ok right now. They can work in any industy.

A builder - Its the most expensive item you can buy, so if you can build one - thats a huge amount of $ saved.

Important - Do what you have an aptitude for.

bleg

pharmacy.

there are two chemical and process engineering degrees in cork, ucc and cit

Kensington

Kensington wrote: »

Study medicine or just become an undertaker. Two jobs where you'll always be guaranteed work!!

Or Pharmacy or Physio or Psychiatrist or especially Dietician.

Senna

Social Worker, reckon there'll be more of them needed.

Omnipresence

can you study demolition ? :pac:

jocotty

Rabies wrote: »

Study what you want. If you're good at it you'll get hired.

very very very good advice. no one knows what to study. study what u want to do, forget about the job prospects....things will be different in 4 years anyway.

biko

Please don't bring back old threads