any ideas?

Chenglin

How to survive in Carlow without a job?anyone any ideas?

SV

Go on the dole.

Chenglin

ClioV6 wrote: »

Go on the dole.

have to wait for years to get the unemployment benefit.Any way making cash by selling some stuff.

darc

If you're any good at diy / gardening do up a good leaflet along with a fixed price details for small jobs such as fence painting, garden maintenance, small hosue jobs etc etc.

Post it into a range of hosues - particularly the more mature estates (mortgages low or paid off) and see if anything comes.

Most people have the impression that if they call someone, then they'll be ripped off, by putting your prices up front it will probably get a bit more notice.

country_gurl

there's a vacancy in the shop by superquinn

shenanigans1982

darc wrote: »

If you're any good at diy / gardening do up a good leaflet along with a fixed price details for small jobs such as fence painting, garden maintenance, small hosue jobs etc etc.

Post it into a range of hosues - particularly the more mature estates (mortgages low or paid off) and see if anything comes.

Most people have the impression that if they call someone, then they'll be ripped off, by putting your prices up front it will probably get a bit more notice.

Great idea, especially with the summer coming in. Only problem is everything costs money to start off.

Chenglin

agree with shenanigans1982.

stick-dan

Chenglin wrote: »

agree with shenanigans1982.

well what are your strong points, entreprenuership would be the way to go but you'll need to know your strong points.

aynon

Chenglin wrote: »

How to survive in Carlow without a job?anyone any ideas?

get a gun. sell your body to the night. how does that sound?

darc

shenanigans1982 wrote: »

Great idea, especially with the summer coming in. Only problem is everything costs money to start off.

Most houses would have garden tools & you simply agree to provide yourself as the workhorse.

I had painters in a while ago & they gave me a list of paint to get. They came with just their brushes.

Another option is to get 4/5 mates together and offer a lealet delivery service to retailers / restaurants / taxi services in the town @ approx. €60 per thousand.

Chenglin

darc wrote: »

Most houses would have garden tools & you simply agree to provide yourself as the workhorse.

I had painters in a while ago & they gave me a list of paint to get. They came with just their brushes.

Another option is to get 4/5 mates together and offer a lealet delivery service to retailers / restaurants / taxi services in the town @ approx. €60 per thousand.

Uh.........
thinking about it.

turtle dubh

Darc is right about gardening. I have been looking for someone to do my garden for the past 2 months. The well established gardeners are to busy to do anything for me, or the charge an arm or a leg. The younger people dont want to do this manual work. So gardening would be the way to go.

aynon

what you looking to get done? might be interested in a nixer?

Chenglin

manual work,sound interesting!

turtle dubh

aynon wrote: »

what you looking to get done? might be interested in a nixer?

I need a good bit of weeding done nearly an acre, also trees and shrubs cut back. A few more odds and ends as well. Not an easy job, I a hard task master lol.

aynon

might take a look at it, would that be ok. need to subsidize college.... would that be ok?

turtle dubh

aynon wrote: »

might take a look at it, would that be ok. need to subsidize college.... would that be ok?

Send me a pm

aynon

turtle dubh wrote: »

Send me a pm

sending now.

Chenglin

Good luck,lads.

aynon

sorry didnt meant to derail your thread, but if it makes you feel any better, i havent heard back yet/

wheres me jumpa

How to survive in Carlow without a job = Ivy Rooms.

patrickc

wheres me jumpa wrote: »

How to survive in Carlow without a job = Ivy Rooms.

which is gone now to out beside the dome

aynon

i thought they were still up there. last i past the doors were open.

patrickc

aynon wrote: »

i thought they were still up there. last i past the doors were open.

nope they opened out there moday last
now im stopping re the ivy rooms enough topics derailed here;)

aynon

might be time to get a business off the ground.
any one out there we can pimp?
or any one who wants to bury their granny?

two things that are recession proof- death and sex.

turtle dubh

I would not like to be going into business with you aynon. You not very good with your word.

aynon

sorry, car ran out of petrol didnt have enough money to put any in.

you around tomorrow? say in the morning?

stick-dan

Come on guys let's stick to the subject topic and keep conversations to pm's.

Thanks

aynon

sorwey dan. *puppy dog eyes*

Chenglin

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ShayK1

Chenglin wrote: »

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seriously??? What is the point of that post? You come on here looking for some advice. You have been given some options and you don't seem the least bit interested in any of them!

You asked how to survive in Carlow without a job? Have you tried looking for a job? Or are you just sitting on your ass taking the dole payments?

I don't get annoyed easily but you are really p1ssing me off with your posts.

stick-dan

Chenglin wrote: »

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i'd have to agree with shay. there is no need for posts like that. They are pointless and contribute absolutely nothing towards the development of this thread.If you don't have anythign valid to contribute then don't contribute.Loads of people posted here to try help you out, why not take some of their advice.

SV

Chenglin is just one of the many like it in this country.

They want a job handed to them without doing the leg work.

darc

Back to the original topic.

He was looking for a job, ideas were given - excuse was given for not trying that route - more ideas given and still looking for other stuff.

Unfortuantley for anyone, money does not grow on trees. Back in the mid eighties, I left school and looked for work. We had 16% unemployment back then. - I saw a gap in the market that wasn't being supplied by a distribuor of a product and offerred to sell into the gap on a small basic + commission.

Distributor got extra sales/profits - I got a well paid job. - This gave me good foundation and I moved to the UK 4 years later in a sales management position. - I now have a small company and I'm looking to expand a small bit this year as costs have dropped significantly.

Basically people need to work at getting a good job. First question you need to ask yourself is what will the employer gain by employing me? - if you can show yourself that the employer can employ you profitably (not necessarily always from a financial point of view) then you've a head start on most other applicants.

Employers are still recruiting, but at a slower pace and they are being choosy. Negative attitudes will get you a thanks but no thanks return letter.

The recession will end, just like the one in the sixties, seventies, eighties & the small dip in the late nineties and in a coupe of years we'll be wondering what all the fuss was about.

Chenglin

Don't be angry,lads,thanks you all for your advices.I've been looking for jobs,and havn't heard anything back.But still trying,thanks a lot again.

foggy_lad

Chenglin wrote: »

have to wait for years to get the unemployment benefit.Any way of making cash by selling some stuff.

unless you are too young to get the dole you should get something within 9weeks and even at that you can go to the health centre for supplementary welfare allowance for those 9weeks, if you are not eligible for social welfare for whatever reason then it will be almost impossible to survive here in carlow or anywhere else without a job/income. you could also try not ommitting words from sentences you will be understood better

Chenglin

foggy_lad wrote: »

unless you are too young to get the dole you should get something within 9weeks and even at that you can go to the health centre for supplementary welfare allowance for those 9weeks, if you are not eligible for social welfare for whatever reason then it will be almost impossible to survive here in carlow or anywhere else without a job/income. you could also try not ommitting words from sentences you will be understood better

Thanks foggy_lad.It's nice to hear that."supplementary welfare allowance",never heard of that.

aynon

i see a couple of problems, firstly you probably havent collected enough stamps yet, secondly, as you posted in the carlow IT forum, i guess your a student, and thirdly, it can take up to 6 weeks to get from application to claim payout on it, like many things nowadays on social welfare.