Are you employed or unemployed?

whirlpool

*ANONYMOUS POLL. No need to comment if you don't want to.*

I'm asking because I'm nosey.

Delete or move as appropriate.

whirlpool

Should have added "Part time but I'm seeking Full time."

I wish polls could be edited / reset.

antodeco

Technically, if I answer yes, I've answered your question.

Frosty McSnowballs

What about us "self unemployed"?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Other is a bit dismissive of us retired folk!

Fr_Dougal

No 'Garth Brooks' option?

--LOS--

I'm a student but it's hardly like being unemployed, I do stuff, I just don't get paid

whupdedo

Self employed, so both employed and unemployed, whatever way the work goes

JohnMarston

Full time but im on contract, though not sure for how long, its ongoing

akura

Works at: Full time mad bastard

Arthur Beesley

No 'In Prison' option?

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

nailbiting WC final and you're on AH posting stupid questions!

Arthur Beesley

georgiecasey wrote: »

nailbiting WC final and you're on AH posting stupid questions!

And we are reading them...

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

i killing time during ET half!

whupdedo

georgiecasey wrote: »

nailbiting WC final and you're on AH posting stupid questions!

Are you watching the same **** I'm watching ?

Lucifer MorningStar

akura wrote: »

Works at: Full time mad bastard

Full time Mommy hun xxx

Penny Tration

I'm employed, and desperately trying to find new employment.

Stheno

I'm both full and part time employed, both self employment, so no options on the poll for me

A Greedy Algorithm

I have a full-time job but its cash in hand so i also claim the dole.

Tar.Aldarion

Got that greedy algorithm down.


I work yes, love my job.

Tail Docker

A Greedy Algorithm wrote: »

I have a full-time job but its cash in hand so i also claim the dole.

In the same spirit- Fair play to you!

tomwaterford

week-to-week contract (informal...but above board at same time)

the moneys ok....but uncertainty is desperate:(

Mississauga

I'm probably going to get a lot of abuse for this but I choose not to work as I'm quite happy with my life on the dole. I value my free time more than money, and €188 a week is enough for my frugal existence. I enjoy spending my days reading up on various topics on the internet and joining in discussions on message boards. It's like a free education. I'm also an avid reader and take advantage of free books at the library every week. I get the bus everywhere so I save a lot of money by not having a car. A simple life is the life for me. All I need is an internet connection.

whirlpool

Mississauga wrote: »

I'm probably going to get a lot of abuse for this but I choose not to work as I'm quite happy with my life on the dole. I value my free time more than money, and €188 a week is enough for my frugal existence. I enjoy spending my days reading up on various topics on the internet and joining in discussions on message boards. It's like a free education. I'm also an avid reader and take advantage of free books at the library every week. I get the bus everywhere so I save a lot of money by not having a car. A simple life is the life for me. All I need is an internet connection.

Nope. With that post count, it'll be assumed you're just trolling.

Fr_Dougal

Mississauga wrote: »

I'm probably going to get a lot of abuse for this but I choose not to work as I'm quite happy with my life on the dole. I value my free time more than money, and €188 a week is enough for my frugal existence. I enjoy spending my days reading up on various topics on the internet and joining in discussions on message boards. It's like a free education. I'm also an avid reader and take advantage of free books at the library every week. I get the bus everywhere so I save a lot of money by not having a car. A simple life is the life for me. All I need is an internet connection.

ORLY?

Mississauga wrote: »

Where do you live: Phoenix, Arizona. I presume there will be a few Irish living in nearby Chandler due to the location of the Intel plant there.
How long have lived here: 7 months
What do you like: The desert, the cacti, the palm trees, the fantastic weather all year round, low cost of living, big wide open roads and ample parking space everywhere.
What do you dislike: lack of public transport although it's slowly improving; the city is huge so it could take an hour to visit friends on the other side of the valley

Overall I'm very happy here. I don't think I could live in any of the freezing cold East Coast cities where you pay $1000 a month to live in a shoebox beside a noisy railway line.

groucho marx

Working on my career plan to go on the dole. The moneys not great but the hours would suit me better.

NightOfTheHunt

Where do slave-bridge "internships" stacking shelves and cleaning cars fit into your poll?

Shakespeare's Sister

Employed. Very happy about it usually, but not right now - serious Glenroe feeling. :-/

candy-gal1

Unemployed the past 5years and a bit, and Im looking :rolleyes:, Been doing courses and unpaid work experience and trying to save a teeny bit where i can though these past 5 years here and there so at least their not just wasted years :P

It took me 3 three years of actually looking before I got my first job back in the days of the Boom, supermacs 2006-2009, and I was in college too, so tbh these 5years have only started to wane a bit now, as in right now I want a job, full time and at least minimum wage.

Its very very easy to just sit back on the Dole, and tbh if some people want to then thats their business as we all have to pay tax anyway when were working - if its not going to SW then itll just be something else :rolleyes:

But I myself want a job, to work and see what I can get out of life careerwise, or even just cashwise, especially now at this stage, but it is hard finding full time work out there, even now!

Facebook type answer on what I do

"Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry"

Better than full time mammy/mad bastard anyway lol

shruikan2553

Full time for now and student in September, it's like being unemployed but nobody wants to give you a job because they can easily pick the next guy in the line who will be available at any hour.

Shakespeare's Sister

candy-gal1 wrote: »

Its very very easy to just sit back on the Dole

Is it? Anyone I know long-term on the dole (through no choice of their own) would gnaw their own arm off for a job.

tbh if some people want to then thats their business

Ah here. A healthy, able-bodied person should be looking for work. Even if it takes them ages, fair enough, but just not bothering to look, is not cool.

as we all have to pay tax anyway when were working - if its not going to SW then itll just be something else :rolleyes:

Really not getting the logic here. "Just stay on the dole if you want, and don't look for a job... shur you'll be getting taxed when working anyway."

Spunge

I work but i dont get paid.

whirlpool

Magaggie wrote: »

Is it? Anyone I know long-term on the dole (through no choice of their own) would gnaw their own arm off for a job.

Ah here. A healthy, able-bodied person should be looking for work. Even if it takes them ages, fair enough, but just not bothering to look, is not cool.

Really not getting the logic here. "Just stay on the dole if you want, and don't look for a job... shur you'll be getting taxed when working anyway."

I beg of you, if anyone wants to continue this conversation please exit this thread and go here: http://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?query=dole&title=1&forum=7&user=&date_from=&date_to=

beano345

Work cash in hand,and lodge my money in the shoebox bank,its my escape money for when I get itchy feet which I feel will be soon

Shakespeare's Sister

whirlpool wrote: »

I beg of you, if anyone wants to continue this conversation please exit this thread and go here: http://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?query=dole&title=1&forum=7&user=&date_from=&date_to=

I normally don't go near dole threads other than maybe a bit of reading, and usually I'm totally pro people on the dole on those discussions because of all the gimps moaning about anyone at all in receipt of benefits, but that was just in response to someone else who mentioned the dole so redirect them!

candy-gal1

Magaggie wrote: »

Is it? Anyone I know long-term on the dole (through no choice of their own) would gnaw their own arm off for a job.

Dont get me wrong I know, and tbh I and most of my friends etc are the same, but from my experience - if you can keep your mind active, and yourself, keep upping your cv in any way possable, dont really have an inclination etc to up their career/finances/lifestyle etc and have very little financial responsabilities then yeah Id definitly say its very easy to just stay on the dole

Ah here. A healthy, able-bodied person should be looking for work. Even if it takes them ages, fair enough, but just not bothering to look, is not cool.

Exactly, but as I say, its not good and people shouldnt do it as we get one life, lets see what we can make of it, but some people will always just not have any craving or want to work

Really not getting the logic here. "Just stay on the dole if you want, and don't look for a job... shur you'll be getting taxed when working anyway."

Well yes, that is true pending on how you look at it, unless theres some rule that I dont know of that says if there was no SW/dole etc then people wouldnt have to pay tax, then yeah there are some people and some logic in the fact that if you work your paying half your wages in tax thereabouts so unless you have a really good paying job then whats the point!
Its a lazy way of thinking and shouldnt be, imho this logic should be used to see how good a wage/job you can but there are people who take it the other way

Tail Docker

Spunge wrote: »

I work but i dont get paid.

Me too..no, wait, what?? Work=Money. Play=No money. How does your version work??

corner of hells

I worked full time contract hours for years , then part time with occasional bursts of unemployment then a few years ago I got a permanent full time pensionable job in the middle of a recession.

ToddyDoody

OP I think you mean to ask are you employed or on the dole

dazed+confused

Lucifer MorningStar wrote: »

Full time Mommy hun xxx

That's what the "unemployed" option was for. As Bart's school note in the Simpsons said "It's not a real job, that's why you don't get paid."

Ihatecuddles

Unemployed by choice.

Vojera

I'm in full-time employment. I was unemployed for about 18 months before this job. The first year I had some significant health issues and wasn't looking for work so I wasn't claiming any benefits (I was on a tax-free stipend before, so not entitled to JSB). Once I was better and actively looking I started claiming JSA, which lasted for six months. It felt so much longer.

I've gone from working as a molecular biologist to working in admin, which is definitely not the way I hoped my career would go, but I would rather be working at something than sitting at home getting no response to 95% of my applications.

I've been in my new job for nine months now, trying (and failing) to shore up the damage I did to my savings. I doubt I'll ever work in science again as it's been too long since I've worked in a lab now and there's always someone with more recent experience, but I enjoy what I'm doing so it's okay. I work from 08:30 to 17:00 every day and my job is done once I'm out the door, whereas before it wasn't unusual to work 12-hour days and come in on the weekends. I definitely have a better work-life balance now.

TL;DR: I work full-time, not in the career I aspired to, but it pays the bills and it's actually okay.

House of Blaze

Unemployed but waiting on feedback from an interview!

(Oh please god let me get it, please god, please let me get it..)

RayM

Unemployed, and have been for quite some time, but going back to college in September. In the highly unlikely event of someone offering me a full-time job right now, the worst thing I could possibly do is accept it, as it would disqualify me from receiving Back to Education Allowance. A bit of a flaw in the system there, I think.

Agent Smith

"What about us brain dead slobs?"

House of Blaze

You'll be given cushy jobs!

whirlpool

Only 14% of people who took this poll are unemployed against their will.

I suppose it doesn't take into account those who have jobs but can't get enough hours to earn enough money, those who have temporary employment and can't find permanent positions, or those who are being paid peanuts. I did think that 14% figure would be higher though.

Maphisto

whirlpool wrote: »

Only 14% of people who took this poll are unemployed against their will.

I suppose it doesn't take into account those who have jobs but can't get enough hours to earn enough money, those who have temporary employment and can't find permanent positions, or those who are being paid peanuts. I did think that 14% figure would be higher though.

Or maybe they just feel so pi$$ed off about the whole deal that they can't be bothered to complete some kids poll just cos its the school holidays :pac:

previous user

im scumemployed

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Full-time, with a part time job working for myself

pragmatic1

Full time employed. But going to have to get a second job as the pay is shyte.