Mad to leave public service?

Damien_d12

delthedriver wrote: »

Happiness is very important .


Steven Gerard perhaps is a good example. He stayed with Liverpool despite offers over the years.


Life is for living !

Yes though he was on his way to Chelsea only LFC made a higher offer. #Loyalty

gerbilgranny

To the OP - I think you answered your own question.

Lucky you, enjoying your job here - but it seems to me that there's more going for the position abroad.

Take a parachute, and jump....(sounds like you're likely to have further opportunities here, when you return....but my advice would be to go with your heart).

Gongoozler

I say go for it. An IT specialist is not going to be short of work in the next 5 years, so I wouldn't worry about what you have to come back to. And as someone else said, you never know what the new job will lead to.

Oh and to the person who said about the work ethic in the public sector, considering the public sector is so large in Ireland you might want to clarify where it was rather than tarring the entire thing and all its employees with the same brush. I'm in a public sector body and the work ethic is fantastic, the issue is that you, depending on the individual organisation, can't progress a whole lot within it, and unfortunately means you can't redeploy. I just hate this lazy attitude towards the public sector, it's not the people, it's the rules.

boobar

Zipppy wrote: »

AFAIK you cant work as an employee within the state whilst on a career break!
Europe is fair game....

That's my understanding as well....

However I know plenty of people that have taken career breaks and worked in the private sector in Ireland and then returned to their public service jobs, so it's not enforced

beauf

boobar wrote: »

...I know plenty of people that have taken career breaks and worked in the private sector in Ireland and then returned to their public service jobs, so it's not enforced

As do I. There probably different rules and agreements in different parts of the public sector vs the civil service.

Maya the Bee

markeymark wrote: »

My situation is as follows: I am an IT specialist in the public sector (not civil service) where I earn a decent salary slightly above the average industrial wage. My job is OK, I quite enjoy it for the most part. I am permanent and pensionable (lucky me ). I would say I am happy, but rarely out of my comfort zone!

However, I have been offered a position in mainland Europe for a well-known NGO on a 2 year contract. I worked for them before on secondment and enjoyed it very much. The salary is about 20% better than I receive now. The problem is, I won't have the fall back of my job back home this time around.

I fear that when my contract expires, I will return to Ireland with no job and forever regret leaving the public service! On the other hand, it's a wonderful opportunity to take on an interesting project in a great European city! I know it's a very subjective thing but I interested in hearing other opinions on this situation.

You can apply for a career break to take up another employment:
Circular-4-of-2013-Career-Break-Scheme-in-the-Civil-Service.

_Kaiser_

Unless you can get the career break I'd probably stay put myself (as someone who has worked in both the public and private sectors myself)

Sure the other job is exciting and what not, but it's a contract and you plan to come back here .. if you were thinking of staying that's a different matter, but giving up a secure pensionable job that you do enjoy seems like a bit of a gamble if you're thinking of mortgages too.

My experience with IT since moving back into the private sector (forced redundancy in 2009 thanks to cutbacks) is that there's so much demand for the non-callcentre/higher-up-the-ladder roles that it really is an employer's market. "Developer" seems to be another of the current buzzwords that everyone is getting into as well. I'm sure you'll get something when ya come back but whether it's as secure as what you have now is the question.

I wouldn't rush into anything anyway