Work outside your field or emigrate to work in it?

RATM

Just wondering what peoples thoughts are on this. I'm adamant that I'll work in my field and although I have tons of expereince in barwork and market research, call centres, etc I don't apply for these jobs as I want to work in my field- I've invested a lot of time and effort to get to Masters level in my area and Im now not really willing to work in the type of jobs which made me go back to uni so I could avoid them.

Do you think that all things being equal its better to emigrate if there's not much work in your field? Or to stay put, keep applying for the little out there and hope for the best?

I'm only at the 1 month unemployed stage but Im betting there's others out there like me who've been searching for much longer and are beginning to ask this very question.

What is your field? You don't actually come out and say it.

dan_d

Yes. Me.

I've posted about it here somewhere - I won't bore people with it again.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056000466

I'm sitting here all day every day wondering that. I'm no closer to a solution - other than an agreement with my OH that we'll hang on a few months, and look at it again then. Due to his job being okay for now etc,etc.

Doesn't make me feel much better about the whole situation though.

Joey the lips

If you done a degree in an area say "agriculture" or "forestry" i would travel to be in the area but you have to be careful where you travel. For example if you intend to come back the industry in your chosen country will have to match our..

For examples above "agriculture" i would stick within europe and "forestry" i would head to northern europe

Likewise if you have a degree in mechanical engineering or civil engineering the US might be worth while. I would have said the middle east but they are also going through a recession at the moment.

Any experience you build on can only help where as you reconise you can do bar work anytime...

pow wow

Emigrate. If there are rarely any jobs in your field here you're prolonging the inevitable by staying.

femur61

People want experience. I lived through the 80's had to emigrate after my degree it wasn't till the 90's that things started to get better. Personally I would emigrate. I am in my 40's three kids so emigration actually isn't an option (yet) but am totally dismayed at the state of the country. If you listen to the Irish news they say one thing, the EU, IMF say another. In The Independent on Sunday there was an article that some leaked documents from Deutch Bank had been sent to financial instutions in the UK wanrning them not to invest in Ireland, that is was too risky.

music.babe75

Think it depends on your field, the level you have got to in your career and your own personal circumstances.

For example, if you are young free, single with no commitments, absolutely love your job, never wanted to do anything else, and work high up eg manager, then I would probably say emigrate.

However, if you've only being working at a fairly low level admin job (nothing wrong with this just using it as an example), have family and mortgage commitments then you would probably have to try to look outside your field eg retail.....

Basically all depends on the individual, their commitments and the job........

Bill2673

I know where you are coming from.

Its not just a question of whether you will be neglecting your education/ experience by pursuing new career. There is also the money factor, it would mean a big pay cut. If, hypothetically, a dentist decides he/she doesn't want to do dentistry any more, then what work could they do that they will get paid any way well for. Would probably be a 50% pay cut at least. If you have a mortgage to contend with to boot.....

Plus, it would be nice not to have to deal with the uncertainty of Ireland, and the worry that goes with that.....I'd imagine say in London, or in Australia for example, you've a fair idea you can get a new job if you lose the one you have. its quite the opposite here now.

piby

Like it or not it's a globalised economy now so many people will be looking to move abroad for work. The EU means that obviously you can anywhere in Europe and I thin that's going to be a stable pattern emerging over the next few decades whereby people will get qualifications expecting to have to move afterwards. I really like the area of I've done my masters in but it's quite specialised such that I'll have to move to the UK if I want to work in it but I had some idea that would be the case from the start.

It really depends on your circumstances. If you're single, no kids, no mortgage than I wouldn't even give it a second thought I'd just go! The flip side is that if you have any committments than I'd only go if it involved a big pay increase. You'd have to weigh up the benefits for your family or home against the benefits of leaving to work in your area.