Youth in Ireland & Jobs

Manutd_4life

So recently I was in America and Canada also and noticed that it is very common for young people (16-19) to have part time jobs and talking with some of my relatives, it isn't too hard to get jobs at fast food places, supermarkets, cinemas etc. A young relative of mine recently just got his first job at Best Buy with no experience of any other work before and from his description, it is a pretty impressive job to get at his age.

Over here in Ireland though with my experience, it is much more difficult to get a decent job other than picking up glasses at a local pub and I very rarely see young people working in popular stores and companies.

Why is it that over there it is the norm for 16/17 year olds to get part time jobs but over here it is quite rare and in all honesty much more difficult, unless you have contacts?

theteal

It used to be the norm in Ireland - I got a job at 15 on the way home from my last JC exam (in 1998, granted that was a pub - officially on the books of next job 3 days after 16th birthday). Then they increased the age to 18 from 16. . .and then broke the country even more so all the jobs that inexperienced kids could get were taken up by older people desperate to take jobs they would have previously scoffed at

TrustedApple

I see plenty of young people in jobs such as Super markets, Clothes shops, Waiter/waitress. ITs not just in the US plenty in Ireland get these jobs .

I used to work in hoispilty and the main reason we never took on under 20s ?. As all they did was moan about the work saying the hours where to long .... 5 to 12 3 nights a week with 30 min break, they where not happy with the wages. 8.65 a hour or so before tax, they didnt wont to be rag for tax and wonted cash in hand, They where lazy and didnt wont to do the work, Didnt wont to learn the job, To much work for them to be doing and so on.

So i ended up hiring people who where older and Foreign as they didn't moan like a young Irish girl or lad. Its just the way things are gone here people think there going to be handed stuff and thats it. But they don't realise that they have to work there asses off.

Now i am working in IT i go to work 30 min early so i can plan my day, Get my emails looked at, Start a few basic things and hit the proper work at 9.While i know from hoispilty people be coming in at say 4.58 when there starting at 5 they just don't have the intreats in the job.

Like in hoispilty as well young people in ireland don't realise if you are good at you can earn good money in it. I got offered a better job as a manager in a hotel before i took my entry lv IT job. The reason i didnt take it as i went to college for 4 years to study computers and i have worked 8 years in hoispilty and it was time for a change for the time being. But i give you a idea a manager in hotel can earn 30k + a year with 2 or 3 years proper exp.

Triceratops Ballet

Me and all my friends in school got jobs once we were 16. I think the issue now is that under 18's are not allowed to work past 10pm or sell alcohol in shops and supermarkets so a lot of places dont take them on.

Also during the recession when you had queues outside spars etc for 1 job school students were a less attractive hire for these employers.

Points for college have gone up so much now and the competition is serious I think parents dont want their kids working and encourage them instead to focus on their studies

Manutd_4life

As a matter of interest, when discussing why they got jobs and all and what they needed the money for, most of them were plainly just saving for the future, for college expenses and stuff like that.

If part time jobs aren't a norm for youth, how are some ways they could begin saving apart from the classic pocket money from parents

IrishLoriii

Im 19 and I have worked since I was 16. I work in a chinese
and in a shop and Im in full time college. I am one of the best workers in both workplaces
and I am extremely reliable. I have many friends who dont work
and get their money off of their parents and their susi grant.
It really infuriates me how much money they receive and yet I work so
hard for so little and to be honest if I could go back and do it again I dont
know if I would have worked as much because in this country it seems to
be the less you do the more you get. Young people who arent working
are dead right.

TrustedApple

No but in later life when you have your degree from college. Who looks better to hire ?. Someone who worked part time for 5 + years during college or someone who never worked a day in there life.

The person who worked the part time job will be more hireable as they have been in a work place before and will work no problem.