Looking to Move from Dublin City to countryside-career change

kifi

Hi guys

I'm a 32 year old male who works in finance industry in Dublin City centre. I am recently married and my wife is a nurse who has recently gotten a job in the Midlands. We both have savings for a house and both really want to live and raise a family in the countryside.

So, we've a problem in that in order to move to a location close to my wife's job, I will just be too far out from dublin City in order to commute. I also strongly dislike my job and the pressure that goes with it and think I would have a much better quality of life well outside the city.

The problem of course is finding myself a job. My work experience for the past 10 years has been so so specific and not transferable to outside of Dublin. I am happy to change career entirely, work for myself, or be an employee, but would prefer to steer clear of jobs such as in restaurants, bars and supermarkets etc.

Does anybody have any ideas. Clearly I am quite desperate....

Laneyh

kifi wrote: »

Hi guys

I'm a 32 year old male who works in finance industry in Dublin City centre. I am recently married and my wife is a nurse who has recently gotten a job in the Midlands. We both have savings for a house and both really want to live and raise a family in the countryside.

So, we've a problem in that in order to move to a location close to my wife's job, I will just be too far out from dublin City in order to commute. I also strongly dislike my job and the pressure that goes with it and think I would have a much better quality of life well outside the city.

The problem of course is finding myself a job. My work experience for the past 10 years has been so so specific and not transferable to outside of Dublin. I am happy to change career entirely, work for myself, or be an employee, but would prefer to steer clear of jobs such as in restaurants, bars and supermarkets etc.

Does anybody have any ideas. Clearly I am quite desperate....

I guess it depends on where in the Midlands and maybe how specialised your work is but with 10 years experience you should be able to get some kind of an office job at least. IFDS have offices in Kilkenny if that is of any use. There would seem to be credit control and audit type jobs.. would that be something you could do?

rarity

I made that move a year and a half ago. Left the city job and moved with my husband and two kids home to the West to start the kids in school down here and come home to family. I took a year off and am now on the job trail approx 6 months

I have 15 years exp in a specialised area of company law, this exp also includes team mgr, hr and marketing projects. Figured I would walk into a job but not so. Finally after dumbing down my CV I got an interview and the interviewee admitted he is hesitant given my background and my expectations of a small practice versus a large dublin firm.

I guess my advice is be prepared to play the waiting game, tailor each cover letter and state that you are looking for roles such as the one advertised/very enthusiastic about it. You may find it easier than I am finding it. My husband had a job lined up before we moved, so the pressure is off. However, it can be frustrating when applying for roles you could easily do and not even getting an acknowledgement of application. A lot of the process seems to be about about getting some personality across (in addition to who you know :-))

Good luck with it all, I can honestly say moving to the country is the best thing we did for ourselves and the kids and the stressful city job seems like a million years ago :-)

kifi

rarity wrote: »

I made that move a year and a half ago. Left the city job and moved with my husband and two kids home to the West to start the kids in school down here and come home to family. I took a year off and am now on the job trail approx 6 months

I have 15 years exp in a specialised area of company law, this exp also includes team mgr, hr and marketing projects. Figured I would walk into a job but not so. Finally after dumbing down my CV I got an interview and the interviewee admitted he is hesitant given my background and my expectations of a small practice versus a large dublin firm.

I guess my advice is be prepared to play the waiting game, tailor each cover letter and state that you are looking for roles such as the one advertised/very enthusiastic about it. You may find it easier than I am finding it. My husband had a job lined up before we moved, so the pressure is off. However, it can be frustrating when applying for roles you could easily do and not even getting an acknowledgement of application. A lot of the process seems to be about about getting some personality across (in addition to who you know :-))

Good luck with it all, I can honestly say moving to the country is the best thing we did for ourselves and the kids and the stressful city job seems like a million years ago :-)

Thanks for the replies guys. The above has given me great hope. I'm glad you are happy with the move and that appears like some good advice. I would be more than happy to completely change career, but I guess that would be even more difficult that getting into a smaller company at a lower level than what I'm currently at.

_Kaiser_

I'd be in kinda the same boat - working in Dublin again for the last few years after working outside it for a few years before that. Been considering a move though and keeping an eye on the South of the country.

I'm in IT though and have been since I started working, but I came up through the deskside support side of things rather than something specialised like development and while I now run a global department, similar roles down South seem to be thin on the ground. Plus despite the general wisdom, things aren't much cheaper (shopping still costs the same, so does diesel, and rents/property prices are rising fast there too) and the salaries are maybe 5-10k less then their Dublin equivalents.

Hard to know what to do really.. try and find something and live with the cut/possibly more junior role, or try and get something better in Dublin with more flexibility (work from home etc) and a higher salary to support time sharing/commuting between both locations.

boobar

kifi wrote: »

Hi guys

I'm a 32 year old male who works in finance industry in Dublin City centre. I am recently married and my wife is a nurse who has recently gotten a job in the Midlands. We both have savings for a house and both really want to live and raise a family in the countryside.

So, we've a problem in that in order to move to a location close to my wife's job, I will just be too far out from dublin City in order to commute. I also strongly dislike my job and the pressure that goes with it and think I would have a much better quality of life well outside the city.

The problem of course is finding myself a job. My work experience for the past 10 years has been so so specific and not transferable to outside of Dublin. I am happy to change career entirely, work for myself, or be an employee, but would prefer to steer clear of jobs such as in restaurants, bars and supermarkets etc.

Does anybody have any ideas. Clearly I am quite desperate....

Would trying to get a job in FBD Insurance Portlaoise be something to aim for?