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Teaching situation

  • 01-08-2013 6:24pm
    #1
    ahahah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 79 ✭✭


    Hi all,

    I have been working in Dublin schools for 3 yrs now and a year before that in UK. I have had various contracts maternity etc. I am getting a bit down about the situation. Im very grateful to have had work since dip but not sure this moving around business searching for jobs every august is working out. Any thoughts? Anyone else getting disheartened? I love the job so don't get me wrong! Subjects are languages


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  • #2
    thefasteriwalk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 565 ✭✭✭thefasteriwalk


    You're right. It's unrelenting. I'm only going into my third year post-dip, but the summers are a really horrible time. Someone on one of these threads mentioned a friend who has been moving around for twelve years and still doesn't have a job of their own - how utterly depressing! I've thought about changing careers, but I can't afford to re-train. I've nothing lined up for this Sept and I've been thinking seriously about going to London, in fact I'd quite like to go, but the new pension clause would mean that break in service would lose me a ridiculous amount of money in the long term.


  • #3
    Chris68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 144 ✭✭Chris68


    thefasteriwalk wrote: »
    I've thought about changing careers, but I can't afford to re-train. I've nothing lined up for this Sept.
    If you're currently unemployed then the Government will pay for you to go back to college and retrain. Check out www.springboardcourses.ie and www.ictskills.ie


  • #4
    Inspector Coptoor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,818 ✭✭✭Inspector Coptoor


    thefasteriwalk wrote: »
    You're right. It's unrelenting. I'm only going into my third year post-dip, but the summers are a really horrible time. Someone on one of these threads mentioned a friend who has been moving around for twelve years and still doesn't have a job of their own - how utterly depressing! I've thought about changing careers, but I can't afford to re-train. I've nothing lined up for this Sept and I've been thinking seriously about going to London, in fact I'd quite like to go, but the new pension clause would mean that break in service would lose me a ridiculous amount of money in the long term.


    What new pension clause is that?

    I'm no longer paying into DES pension as I'm privately paid.


  • #5
    thefasteriwalk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 565 ✭✭✭thefasteriwalk


    If you have a break of 26 weeks you're paid career average instead of finishing salary.


  • #6
    Inspector Coptoor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,818 ✭✭✭Inspector Coptoor


    thefasteriwalk wrote: »
    If you have a break of 26 weeks you're paid career average instead of finishing salary.

    By the time I retire that'll be the norm anyway I'd say


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  • #7
    thefasteriwalk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 565 ✭✭✭thefasteriwalk


    Inspector Coptoor wrote: »
    By the time I retire that'll be the norm anyway I'd say

    Hopefully not, but that's what I'm worried about. If it ends that way, I'll really regret not having left. Ugh!


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