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A question for foreigners
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25-04-2014 9:19am#1After viewing the Polish embassy Irish video thread a question popped into my head as to what the foreigners who live here do?
Are they doing the job they had hope for?
Are they doing financially well?
I've always been curious about this.
An example to get the ball rolling, my wife before she became my wife couldn't get into her field of study in Poland as it was just way too difficult to get in.
She went to work in Ireland where I met her.
After a year she enrolled into WIT and began her degree of Psychology as it was easier and cheaper here.
3 years later she passed and with that brought it back to Poland where she got her Masters.
She is now a psychologist
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After viewing the Polish embassy Irish video thread a question popped into my head as to what the foreigners who live here do?
Are they doing the job they had hope for?
Are they doing financially well?
I've always been curious about this.
An example to get the ball rolling, my wife before she became my wife couldn't get into her field of study in Poland as it was just way too difficult to get in.
She went to work in Ireland where I met her.
After a year she enrolled into WIT and began her degree of Psychology as it was easier and cheaper here.
3 years later she passed and with that brought it back to Poland where she got her Masters.
She is now a psychologist
Thanks for mentioning the video. I haven't seen it until now.
Anyway just to answer.
We (me and my girlfriend) first came to Ireland from Poland 10 years ago, and we landed straight away in very rural part of Mayo.
We were students back then in Poland, so we came only for 3 months summer job, and this worked for us great, even though job was rather simple and not requiring any qualifications.
We kept returning every summer for next few year, until we finally settled here in 2007.
My wife finished her college in Poland with Masters degree in Management in Tourism Industry, and she works in her profession now on managerial position.
I'm bit worse, as I never managed to finish my college. But I do what I like. I drive buses part time, and I run small commercial unit. Both things I really enjoy doing.
In relation to other Polish people in Ireland.
There was really tens of thousands of them coming here in between 2004 and 2008. Some settled, got the right jobs and stayed. A lot returned to Poland or moved somewhere else (I reckon mostly employees of building industry), as after 2008 this sector died in Ireland, but was reborn in Poland with fairly good salaries.
At the moment I think among Polish people in Ireland there is healthy proportion of different professions.
Those highly educated, are doing their stuff, and those without any education and without any ambition, still work in lowest paid jobs not requiring any qualifications. Very often they still didn't manage to learn to speak English properly, but I assume they are happy with it.0 -
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what the foreigners who live here do?
Me and my friends do a pretty normal stuff like going to work, eat, sleep, throw all sorts of parties, steal everybody's jobs and their women and men too!:pAre they doing the job they had hope for? Are they doing financially well?
I'd say some are and some aren't.
Now on a serious note, many people came here for various reasons. I know a few, who got here during the boom and said it was a fantastic time for them and one of the best decisions made. Some of them have stayed long-term, some of them just worked hard, saved and headed back home, bought a house and settled down.
I didn't have any plan. I came for holidays and stayed, it was a spontaneous decision and while I question it from time to time I do not regret it. I have met tons of people from all around the globe here, dealing with different cultures on a daily basis has broadened my horizons so much. I have friends that I cannot imagine my life without, they are like a second family to me, I count myself very lucky and they are one of the biggest reasons why I have stayed for so long. I am not doing a job that I hoped for because I haven't figured out what I want to do yet. I'm kind of working towards it now. And I must say Ireland is a good place for doing that. There seems to be lots of options and people I have encountered were open minded and supportive in regards career choices. Financially, it's far from great atm but it's not a disaster either.
I was quite young when I came over and I've matured while living here.
I have always had a little bit different way of thinking than my friends but a good few people have told me on my recent visits in the homeland that they can see the difference living abroad has made when it comes to my attitude towards some things (in a good way).
There are still some things that just wreck my head but overall I like where I am. If I didn't I'd move. I usually get on well with Irish people too, I like the sense of humour because my own can be a bit twisted
I'm interested in living elsewhere at some point and I've no idea where will life bring me, but I know that when (if) the day will come and I'll be sitting on a plane with a one way ticket Dublin => xy I'll be bawling my eyes out and I'm no cry baby!:o0 -
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spitfireIRL wrote: »this is a nice thread
Aye. Its great to hear some of the stories that people have.
Cheers for sharing, folks!0 -
I was about to say the same Knex. It gives you a sense that people have started low and made their way up which being an Irishman makes me proud that our country has some nice success stories.
Keep them coming everyone 0 -
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Just afaik you live in Poland.
Would you share how do you find living there, and generally what you do and what are the opportunities for Irish people intending to live there?
Yes, I'm here temporarily as the contract involved this move - sort of outsourcing.
Well, at the beginning it took quite a bit to get used to.
The idea of not being able to communicate properly is quite scary, I felt a bit useless if I needed to set up appointments with mechanics and likes.
I started to pick up the basics and went from there, whereas now I can communicate quite ok (even better if I add vodka to the mix!)
So the differences in living costs:
Well being Warsaw they aren't that cheap but not that bad either.
A weeks shopping can run into the 50e mark, fuel can be the same as well.
I've made a few friends here now, some very good friends and we all share the same humour.
I find being here ok, except in the winter which is the time when I just want to hang myself but luckily this winter was quite an Irish one.
The city is vibrant, many young people here.
I do miss being home, but I think Warsaw could easily be my second home.
I do see though that many people struggle with their salaries here so you can see why many leave for Germany/UK and Ireland.
The minimum seems to be around 1600zl which I believe is gross - so give or take 400e per month.
Costs have been creeping up in Warsaw for a while now so it can be a struggle.
I'm in administration/logistics for a German company which set up one of their offices in Warsaw so I'm here to enhance skills and to pass mine on.
Should be here for another few months or so.
Opportunities wise for Irish people, that's a tough one to be honest.
It seems that there is a big need for accountants which have a second language or even third language but other jobs are a bit harder to come by.
From what I've understood the economy here has slowed down a lot after weathering through the EU crisis relatively well.
Salaries for the accountants I think can start at around the 1-1.2k Eur mark - more than likely this is gross though. It isn't bad either as a start here.
Any more info I can gladly post up 0 -
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