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Whats the longest time you've been unemployed?

  • 14-11-2010 6:53pm
    #1
    cat_dog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 276 ✭✭


    And how old are you?

    Just curious..

    Thanks


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  • #2
    alandublin15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭alandublin15


    does college count?

    does returning to 3rd level count?


  • #3
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    I've been either working or in college pretty much constantly since I was 18, longest period out of work was two and a half months. I'm 26 now.


  • #4
    candy-gal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,568 ✭✭✭candy-gal1


    I assume this doesnt mean before your 18?! lol
    It would be 1 year, 9 months so far for me.


  • #5
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,295 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Define "unemployed".

    I took a career break and didn't work for five months in 2007 - mainly was travelling overseas.

    Got a fixed-term contract after that, but the recession kicked in at just the wrong moment and it's two years since I had an IT professional job.

    Had no work at all for the first six months of that.

    Then started getting days or sometimes weeks temping doing things like market-reseach, reception ... so was under-employed, rather than unemployed.

    And at the same time I started teaching myself to implement websites, and doing some. They're only just starting to generate a very small tiny bit of income, but you could call me self-employed for the last 15-ish months too.

    I'm 42. Before 2007, I'd always had a job of some sort ever since I was 16.


  • #6
    eire2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 432 ✭✭eire2009


    Yea like theres unemployed and just not working at your profession then theres in college.. If your just concerned with the live register then maybe 6 months and thats because I had to be on it that long to get the back to education so that kinda doesn't count .. Bout 3 - 4 months I usually have some plan or looking into world wide options which has me in some mad spot atm earning decent cash .. But I would suggest on planning an exit if it goes past a month and pulling out of it if you find anything


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  • #7
    Clauric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 610 ✭✭✭Clauric


    Currently unemployed for about 2 years. Did the WPP program for 9 months, but now back unemployed.

    BTW, I'm 30.


  • #8
    SeaFields
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    Finished university 14 months ago. Haven't gotten anything yet. I do work in a small shop a few hours a week, stocking the shelves and the like, meaning I'm not drawing any social welfare but I consider myself 'out of work' in a way. :(


  • #9
    dan_d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,819 ✭✭✭dan_d


    28, 4 months and 2 days...........and it's ongoing......


  • #10
    fat__tony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 587 ✭✭✭fat__tony


    10 soul destroying weeks from November 09 to mid January 10.

    I'm 27.


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