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If you were starting a new career in Ireland in your mid 30s, what would it be?

  • 06-12-2016 10:32pm
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    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭


    I was thinking of doing a diploma in Digital Marketing, but maybe half the country is thinking the same, this area will be saturated soon and I should look at something else?

    If you were to choose a new career in Ireland with strong job prospects, what would it be?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,037 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    A state quango waffler


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭somefeen


    ah christ the boom is back.

    "Digishal markeshing Vernon, evwebody is going dat way noooouwwww. Now lets pay 10 yo-yos for a warm laaaaataaaaay and a sandwiiiish"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,363 ✭✭✭stampydmonkey


    Accountant....sure they're in films and all now


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,722 ✭✭✭posturingpat


    Drug dealer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 263 ✭✭eet fuk


    Barber or medicine. Immune to the recession.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    I should add

    Am willing to do a course on a new job direction, but for 3-6 months. Not the 5 years you probably need to be an accountant ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Ha! If only it was 5 years to be an accountant.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,363 ✭✭✭stampydmonkey


    I should add

    Am willing to do a course on a new job direction, but for 3-6 months. Not the 5 years you probably need to be an accountant ;)

    If ur gona do it, go full hog....balls and all in


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    eet fuk wrote: »
    Barber or medicine. Immune to the recession.

    Or an undertaker.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    3-6 months isn't a very long course. What skills do you have now?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    maudgonner wrote: »
    3-6 months isn't a very long course. What skills do you have now?

    Deep throating during beer bong


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭Armchair Andy


    A waffle design consultant.
    Step up from a waffler with more perks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Deep throating during beer bong


    Well that suggests a career in the oldest profession of them all might be the best course of action :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,978 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    As the old saying goes "there's more than one way to skin a cat".
    I'd write them down, become an author.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭not yet


    Porn, You are at your sexual peak so the porn industry it is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,453 ✭✭✭batistuta9


    Or an undertaker.

    & do a bit of barbering on the side


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    3-6 months is nothing and not many courses of that duration would lead to anything of worth.
    Have you a degree already, a lot of ICT conversion courses are being offered for free by the government, if you do have a degree, that's is your best bet for a valuable course that takes only a year.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 163 ✭✭hannible the cannible


    37 here and trying to get into hgv driving , I've all the licenses and everything up to date but I can't get a job without experience and I can't get experience without a job , I've tried a good few places but they all want 2 years minimum experience ,I can't stay at the **** I'm at or I'll fcukin top myself before long


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,205 ✭✭✭✭hmmm


    We seem to have lots of Social Justice Warriors, but no Social Justice Cavalry or Cannons? Just saying they are careers to consider. If Starcraft and Command and Conquer have thought me anything, an army should have a proper mix of specialities.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭boobar


    Technology Evangelist.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Kitten Ambulance.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    Software engineer and go work for a tech company like facebook or twitter.

    Or take up a high-demand language like Arabic and go and work for a private intelligence company.

    Will probably take more than 6 months though :cool:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Personal shopper to the glitterati.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,478 ✭✭✭eeguy


    37 here and trying to get into hgv driving , I've all the licenses and everything up to date but I can't get a job without experience and I can't get experience without a job , I've tried a good few places but they all want 2 years minimum experience ,I can't stay at the **** I'm at or I'll fcukin top myself before long

    Sure in 5 years HGV drivers will be out on their ear.
    Every driving job will be automated soon enough.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Health and safety/machinery and trailer testing.

    Theres only a handful of people in the country certified to approve cranes etc for use....I've the under cert to it



    And as much as farmers might argue againest it.....testing for farm vehicles etc is becoming inevitable and trailer regulations are stricter every year


    Dunno how helpful this is to you though


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 222 ✭✭TheOven


    With the changes in the U.K. porn will become a booming industry in Ireland. We can have our own silicon(e?) valley.


    Can use as many digits as we want while being pissed on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,330 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Kitten Ambulance.

    You could call it the pussy wagon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,994 ✭✭✭daheff


    Data analysis...booming jobs right now..big thing at the minute


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,257 ✭✭✭Yourself isit


    eeguy wrote: »
    Sure in 5 years HGV drivers will be out on their ear.
    Every driving job will be automated soon enough.

    Naw.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,257 ✭✭✭Yourself isit


    daheff wrote: »
    Data analysis...booming jobs right now..big thing at the minute

    Probably not a 3 month course.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 163 ✭✭hannible the cannible


    eeguy wrote: »
    Sure in 5 years HGV drivers will be out on their ear.
    Every driving job will be automated soon enough.

    Well I suppose it's coming down the road sometime in the next 30 years , but I always said I'd like to give it a go anyway , I've been building all my working life and I'm fed up of it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 475 ✭✭jimmy blevins


    hmmm wrote: »
    We seem to have lots of Social Justice Warriors, but no Social Justice Cavalry or Cannons? Just saying they are careers to consider. If Starcraft and Command and Conquer have thought me anything, an army should have a proper mix of specialities.

    Tesla coil technician would be a fairly cool profession, now that you mentioned c&c.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭Four Phucs Ache


    Go for a really long walk and create a blog and then tell the people how to go for long walks , then tell them what to eat.

    If your quick you can get a book out before Xmas.

    Sorted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,561 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    I'm 37 and have been doing the same thing for 17 years, got a call from an old boss a few weeks ago offering me a job, not sure what I'll be doing (so glad to get out if the current job I didn't ask) but I do get an office which is nice.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    Edit


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,186 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    eeguy wrote: »
    Sure in 5 years HGV drivers will be out on their ear.
    Every driving job will be automated soon enough.

    5 years? I'm out on my ear the last 5 weeks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,186 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    37 here and trying to get into hgv driving , I've all the licenses and everything up to date but I can't get a job without experience and I can't get experience without a job , I've tried a good few places but they all want 2 years minimum experience ,I can't stay at the **** I'm at or I'll fcukin top myself before long
    For the love of Christ avoid that industry.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    A state quango waffler
    Drug dealer.
    A waffle design consultant.
    Step up from a waffler with more perks.
    not yet wrote: »
    Porn, You are at your sexual peak so the porn industry it is.
    boobar wrote: »
    Technology Evangelist.
    Kitten Ambulance.
    Go for a really long walk and create a blog and then tell the people how to go for long walks , then tell them what to eat.

    If your quick you can get a book out before Xmas.

    Sorted.



    I think I picked the wrong sub-forum for this thread :p


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 163 ✭✭hannible the cannible


    KC161 wrote: »
    For the love of Christ avoid that industry.

    For what reasons , I always think everyone thinks there own job is the worst , I've been building for a long time and wouldn't wish it on anyone , I see guys in there 60s and think to myself how are you still at this ****e , I suppose it's perspective , I'd like to give it a go and if I don't like it move onto something else


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Man there are so many things. I really only saw one path for myself going towards college. But I have learned and explored and done so many things since then that I now realise that if I could go back in time there would be so many options for me.

    All my DIY madness has shown me I could have done wonders in building and/or internal design.

    While a lot of the hobbies I have had - coupled with the people I have helped and met in many ways - have told me that if I lived it all over again I might end up heavily drawn towards something in Human Psychology or Psychiatry or both. Likely straggling the boundaries between a few disciplines in those areas and bringing them together in ways not many - if any - people are currently doing.

    I do not see it as realistic alas. I have a growing family and am not loaded rich. And I am happy enough in my career and life to not be _that_ motivated to change much now. So really it is just a side level of day dreaming at most.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,186 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    For what reasons , I always think everyone thinks there own job is the worst , I've been building for a long time and wouldn't wish it on anyone , I see guys in there 60s and think to myself how are you still at this ****e , I suppose it's perspective , I'd like to give it a go and if I don't like it move onto something else
    Long hours rubbish money.
    My most recent job was the worst of all.
    Signed up to drive what I was told was an artic, turned out it was a rigid.

    Was given a contract for between 7&10 hours a day.

    Every single day I was there the truck was loaded so much I couldn't get the stuff done in the shift.

    The company wanted me to work on (for free) until it was done regardless of finishing time, I declined as they were 15 hour days.

    Now who in the name of god wants to work those hours with those lies for €88.75 a day BEFORE TAX.

    The subsistence/expenses are €13 a day.

    I have 4 young kids including a 3 month old. Missing out on my kids growing up for the sake of peanuts is never worth it.

    If I could name the company I would but I would strongly believe I'll be carded for it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 39,022 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,186 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    I think you'll find a substantial increase in applications from Bus Èireann drivers soon enough for a Luas job.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    Not really my thing.

    The late night Luas is apparently going automatic and driverless. It's only a matter of time before technology gets better and can deal with the daytime shifts too.

    Driverless everything is coming. If you're in an industry that mainly requires you to drive I would suggest re-training yourself to something new.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 785 ✭✭✭team_actimel


    If you're in any way into fitness would you become a personal trainer? Seems to be the thing these days. It only takes between a month to 6 months to qualify, depending which course you choose. Social media is a great help in promoting your services too!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    If you're in any way into fitness would you become a personal trainer? Seems to be the thing these days. It only takes between a month to 6 months to qualify, depending which course you choose. Social media is a great help in promoting your services too!


    Thanks, but probably one of the most crowded areas at the moment and not an industry Id be good at.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,994 ✭✭✭daheff


    This post had been deleted.
    Probably not....but there are 12month courses in NCIRL in IFSC
    Permabear wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.
    And automated out of a job pretty soon too...but never mind, i'm sure the union will ensure the drivers get kept on sitting around drinking tea on full pay.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,473 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    I think some of the local authorities are hiring again?

    Though realistically, almost anything offering decent pay and reasonable hours requires a degree or a trade. A 6 month cert in digital morkeshing will be about as useful in your job search as a roll of Andrex.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 39,022 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    Sleepy wrote: »
    A 6 month cert in digital morkeshing will be about as useful in your job search as a roll of Andrex.


    Maybe 6 months was a bit short in hindsight.

    Aren't there some reputable colleges in Dublin doing Diplomas in this field over the course of a year though?

    To clarify re: Social Media. Ive a knack for it and have grown some pages to strong numbers so it's something I enjoy and feel I could do 9-5.


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