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Engineering Ireland

  • 19-10-2011 11:20am
    #1
    Earnshaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 198 ✭✭


    Hi there,
    What are your thoughts, I'm currently working as a graduate civil engineer abroad with the last 12 months since I qualified. For a few reasons I am going back to Ireland next year to live.
    It's not possible to find a job in Ireland in what I have trained to do, unless I start working for free or for desperate money. Little options to advance my career over the next 5 years as an engineer in Ireland. Going back to the books to college isn't an option for me but I have seen the quick conversion courses engineers ireland are running for engineers in the construction industry. However I've no interest in pharmaceuticals, i'm not too keen on software either.
    I'm just looking for a bit of feedback from people working in the construction engineering industry. Basically, is there a future in it, for people starting out now?
    Sound.


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  • #2
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Medical devices/process engineering are big employers these days. There are several conversion program's on going at the moment


  • #3
    Pope John 11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 161 ✭✭Pope John 11


    Earnshaw wrote: »
    Hi there,
    What are your thoughts, I'm currently working as a graduate civil engineer abroad with the last 12 months since I qualified.
    Earnshaw wrote: »
    Going back to the books to college isn't an option for me
    Why not? My guess if you only finished college last year, are you under 25?
    Earnshaw wrote: »
    no interest in pharmaceuticals,
    Good money, its a door that is open, so why not try it?
    Earnshaw wrote: »
    i'm not too keen on software either.
    Again it could be a door thats open to you, usually with software you need a keen interest in the subject.
    Earnshaw wrote: »
    I'm just looking for a bit of feedback from people working in the construction engineering industry. Basically, is there a future in it, for people starting out now?
    There could be 10 years in the 'construction recession', its hard to know. Ireland is a very small fish in the big ocean.


  • #4
    Earnshaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 198 ✭✭Earnshaw


    I'm 23, working with a engineering consultancy outside Ireland with the last year.
    There could be 10 years in the 'construction recession', its hard to know

    I have to go back to work in Ireland for a personal reason. I want to start a good career there but this can't be in the construction industry unless I wait 10 years.

    I will more than likely have to go back to college to transfer into another industry.

    I'm trying to find something I like that I do a one year taught masters in. This would have to have good job prospects bearing in mind my bachelors degree in engineering and background as an engineer.

    I am looking for a job with a bit of creativity and involvement in the business side of things. And plenty of meeting with people. Similar enough to a construction project engineer really.

    From what I have read on the internet it is easy enough to do a masters to jump from an engineer into the IT, Pharma or Accounting sectors. But I know that computer programming, anything to do with chemicals, or number-crunching are not for me.

    Bearing all this in mind can anyone recommend a suitable alternative career for me in Ireland?


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