Is this ridiculous?

0byme75341jo28

As a young person with a not-so-in-demand degree (hopefully anyway), I hope to never leave Ireland because I love nothing more than going to GAA matches (neutral or otherwise).

Am I f*cking insane?

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Probably just drunk

TallGlass

Look. As I told loads of people. That Jam degree would get them in a sticky situation.

0byme75341jo28

Chaim Fit Chair wrote: »

Probably just drunk

You would be correct, I genuinely believe this is an epiphany however.

Will report back around 11AM tomorrow to confirm.

deco nate

I don't know what the hell the op means, is it only me?

retro:electro

You dzo you babes

deco nate

anna080 wrote: »

You dzo you babes

Also don't know what you mean. Drunk much?...

The Backwards Man

I remember when the discos had to close the bar at 12 on a Saturday night, you wouldn't be long forgetting about your sliotar in them days.

freshpopcorn

It's perfectly normal once your happy and doing what you want and not harming anybody.
This travelling/exploring bug isn't for everybody. I have often heard of people being pushed into it or thought they had to do it and then having their family rescue them because they simply couldn't cope. Give it a try if you want but it's not for everybody.

Farmer Tom

The dome is dead.

0byme75341jo28

freshpopcorn wrote: »

It's perfectly normal once your happy and doing what you want and not harming anybody.
This travelling/exploring bug isn't for everybody. I have often heard of people being pushed into it or thought they had to do it and then having their family rescue them because they simply couldn't cope. Give it a try if you want but it's not for everybody.

Honestly looking back on the past few years I've been at my happiest during GAA season following my native county or praying Mayo beat the Dubs, I don't think I'd trade that for a more lucrative career abroad..

freshpopcorn

Adam Full Fluid wrote: »

Honestly looking back on the past few years I've been at my happiest during GAA season following my native county or praying Mayo beat the Dubs, I don't think I'd trade that for a more lucrative career abroad..

Your probably not the only person in this position and feels the same about it. People are often told they have to travel/etc to gain real life experience/etc but it's for everybody.
Some people like the simpler things in life or even having a standard enough life(settling down maybe a little young). I find one of the biggest things that makes people doubt themselves is there told by the media/other people. Oh, you've got to XXX is be happy.

0byme75341jo28

deco nate wrote: »

I don't know what the hell the op means, is it only me?

I love going to gaa matches.

I'm nearly finished a degree with massive job prospects abroad, but few in Ireland.

The idea of staying in Ireland around family, friends and GAA appeals to me greatly, even if it is less appealing from a career/financial POV.

Am I mad?

Mrs OBumble

Provided you're happy to make your living working in Supermacs or the like - then no you're not insane. Parochial, perhaps, but not insane.

freshpopcorn

Adam Full Fluid wrote: »

I love going to gaa matches.

I'm nearly finished a degree with massive job prospects abroad, but few in Ireland.

The idea of staying in Ireland around family, friends and GAA appeals to me greatly, even if it is less appealing from a career/financial POV.

Am I mad?

Well I wouldn't call you mad but you have decide what you want if that makes sense.
What did you want to achieve when you went to college? Did you want a high flying job or what?
Can your degree be used in a different field? Lots of people end up in total different places.
Financially what do you want? Could you achieve what you want where you are or find a way around it?
Will all your family and friends still be around in a few years? or will they go off abroad move away from the area?

deco nate

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I remember when the discos had to close the bar at 12 on a Saturday night, you wouldn't be long forgetting about your sliotar in them days.

I'm old, and no night club ever closed at 12! .. ever.,even after a cop rocked up they were told the bar was closed . But this never happened, ever!

The Backwards Man

deco nate wrote: »

I'm old, and no night club ever closed at 12! .. ever.,even after a cop rocked up they were told the bar was closed . But this never happened, ever!

Read my post again

deco nate

Adam Full Fluid wrote: »

I love going to gaa matches.

I'm nearly finished a degree with massive job prospects abroad, but few in Ireland.

The idea of staying in Ireland around family, friends and GAA appeals to me greatly, even if it is less appealing from a career/financial POV.

Am I mad?

Ahh, yes you are. I take it you are young. Just go were you can make money. And after a few years, if you really want to come back at least you will have money to help you get on the ladder.

BorneTobyWilde

If your GF's name is ''insane'' then yes .

0byme75341jo28

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Well I wouldn't call you mad but you have decide what you want if that makes sense.
What did you want to achieve when you went to college? Did you want a high flying job or what?
Can your degree be used in a different field? Lots of people end up in total different places.
Financially what do you want? Could you achieve what you want where you are or find a way around it?
Will all your family and friends still be around in a few years? or will they go off abroad move away from the area?

I went to college simply because it felt like the next step after school. I'm getting near top class marks in most modules. I genuinely had nothing financial in mind when I entered college. I entered a course I was interested in and that was my only consideration (after choosing an IT course based on job prospects a year previous, which I dropped out of).

My degree can likely be used in a different, if not entirely dissimilar, field with perhaps some further education.

From what I'm hearing family and friends should be relatively local on the long term. However this is relatively unimportant as I rarely see them anyway, it's just nice to know they're nearby though.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Adam Full Fluid wrote: »

As a young person with a not-so-in-demand degree (hopefully anyway), I hope to never leave Ireland because I love nothing more than going to GAA matches (neutral or otherwise).

Am I f*cking insane?

If it's all you want, then no. But then some people have no ambition.

0byme75341jo28

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

If it's all you want, then no. But then some people have no ambition.

What's the point in ambition if I'm less happy though?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Adam Full Fluid wrote: »

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

If it's all you want, then no. But then some people have no ambition.

What's the point in ambition if I'm less happy though?

How do you know you'll be less happy?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Adam Full Fluid wrote: »

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

If it's all you want, then no. But then some people have no ambition.

What's the point in ambition if I'm less happy though?

How do you know you'll be less happy?

0byme75341jo28

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

How do you know you'll be less happy?

Good point.

I think I need to take more risks.

freshpopcorn

It sort of depends on what your ambition is tough OP!
Some people want a job near home and to build their own house and others want a big job in the city with a different lifestyle!

freshpopcorn

By the way OP if you want to give something ago abroad then do it and if you don't like it after a few months you can always come home to Ireland or go some where else.
I know somebody who left a good job(Which they were very successful at) and went back to college and there on about half of what they could be earning now but there happy.

donegaLroad

If I was given the opportunity to go and work in Tenerife for a year, at a good job that paid well, Id be away to the airport this evening, GAA be damned.

decky1

you may well be , just like the lads running around the field for nothing winter and summer while the GAA get fat on the admission fee, is it about time they started paying those lads that put there heart and soul into gaelic games, look at them boys across the water poncing around with the best of everything for thousands a week, some of the clubs here don't even have a decent stand to watch the game from or changing rooms etc. Admission cost to Croke Park is a disgrace but still the Paddies keep flocking to it--someone somewhere deep down in the GAA getting very rich.

silverharp

The bank I work for is looking for graduates with Hymalayian studies and interpretive dance, you might be in luck op.

LincolnHawk

They have sports in other countries

Duckworth_Luas

silverharp wrote: »

The bank I work for is looking for graduates with Hymalayian studies and interpretive dance, you might be in luck op.

So close!

I did Himalayan studies through interpretive dance.

decky1

Gee bud what type of bank do you work for? Is it some kind of Hippy bank where you give out loads to those heading to 'Glastonbury etc.

mad muffin

Look… obviously, I could care less. Since I bothered to post, I care some. Still… I don’t care.

_Kaiser_

deco nate wrote: »

Ahh, yes you are. I take it you are young. Just go were you can make money. And after a few years, if you really want to come back at least you will have money to help you get on the ladder.

I hate that phrase, I really do. It's evidence of how little we've learned from the last decade or so

I wouldn't be a GAA fan myself but fair play to the OP if he wants to spend his efforts on something he enjoys than hanging a few hundred grand worth of debt on himself to be "successful"

We really need to get over the obsession with property in this country. It didn't work out well last time and we're on course for the same results again.

Sky King

deco nate wrote: »

I don't know what the hell the op means

It means the original poster.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

silverharp wrote: »

The bank I work for is looking for graduates with Hymalayian studies and interpretive dance, you might be in luck op.

I messed up the interview...

Badly Drunk Boy

Adam Full Fluid wrote: »

You would be correct, I genuinely believe this is an epiphany however.

Will report back around 11AM tomorrow to confirm.

We're waiting...

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Adam Full Fluid wrote: »

You would be correct, I genuinely believe this is an epiphany however.

Will report back around 11AM tomorrow to confirm.

We're waiting...

Allow the man his hangover - he was obviously drinking heavily last night.

FishOnABike

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

We really need to get over the obsession with property in this country. It didn't work out well last time and we're on course for the same results again.

Since, for all intents and purposes, successive governments have abandoned social housing provision for the best part of a generation, having the roof over one's head fully paid for is one small security people look forward to when they retire.

Most don't care about property for property sake but do care about having a secure roof over their head when they retire rather than worry about rent rising faster than inflation when their income is falling.

Irish Guitarist

I'm in my early forties and have never lived outside of Ireland so I can't say that it's ridiculous. If something was keeping me here though it certainly wouldn't be the GAA.

There was a thread on Boards a while ago about what people miss when abroad and it's full of answers along the lines of Kerrygold butter and Club orange.

Widdershins

The majority of former world travellers I know are whinging about being discontent in their thirties and forties. Happiness comes from within. Do what YOU want to do. You can always do something else later if you feel like it then.
People are essentially the same wherever you go.

Adam Full Fluid

Adam Full Fluid wrote: »

As a young person with a not-so-in-demand degree (hopefully anyway), I hope to never leave Ireland because I love nothing more than going to GAA matches (neutral or otherwise).

Am I f*cking insane?

That's readily understandable to the non GAA-hating drones here. Being part of an organisation or movement nourishes a sense of community and, often, purpose. As the largest organisation in Ireland by a poc fada the GAA obviously facilitates and nourishes a sense of community, of belonging, in more people than any other organisation in Ireland possibly could. It nurtures identity at every geographical level and is almost uniquely linked to the emotional power of the Irish tradition. A sense of community gives a strong sense of meaning to many people. All the evidence relates having a sense of meaning to living longer and happier lives. That, and a healthy work-life balance and low hostility levels.

If you really needed to go abroad for a few years, there'll almost certainly be a GAA club near you - there are some 400 clubs outside Ireland - although it probably won't fully compensate for the loss of your local club community. I'd emigrate just for the perspective; you'll probably appreciate home more when you come back, especially as a place for raising a family. A bonus of emigrating is that at least you won't have to endure those sneering fúcktard keyboard warriors who think they are so cosmopolitan and open-minded solely by virtue of the fact they left Ireland (usually for some anglophone country - so much for not being closed-minded and intellectual limited) in the first place.

mynamejeff

Lots of people know who traveled widely appear to have come back with either a chip on the shoulder or an insane obnoxious attitude issue ,

stay at home be irish in ireland

it works

crazy_chancer

nothing wrong the OP,s choices

some people are small town types , not everyone is suited to the big city or overseas life , the GAA is an inherently clannish and small town rural ireland kind of organisation but is amazing none the less for what it gives to those people

Widdershins

mynamejeff wrote: »

Lots of people know who traveled widely appear to have come back with either a chip on the shoulder or an insane obnoxious attitude issue ,

stay at home be irish in ireland

it works

That's true, although it can make people less clannish and less anti-English. If you saw some of the people in my area and how insular and hostile they can be, you might see the benefit of them going away and realising that there is a big world and not everyone looks, sounds or thinks exactly like they do. But most people, including the OP, don't seem in desperate need of travel for that reason as they are reasonably open minded.

Grayson

TallGlass wrote: »

Look. As I told loads of people. That Jam degree would get them in a sticky situation.

But if you're ever in a jam, that's the guy you want.

FTA69

I left Ireland to work abroad, am now settled in London. I've also travelled a lot to interesting places and still do; it's some of the best stuff I've ever done. But it's not for everyone too at the end of the day. Some of my best mates are still in Cork, go on sun holidays to Magaluf and are perfectly content working and staying around where they grew up. They're also interesting people, open-minded, great craic, well-versed on many topics and generally sound and happy people.

In short, do what makes you happy and that's it. That's the secret like.

There is nothing more irritating than some tosspot coming back home and making snide observations about life in Ireland because they went to India or live in London or whatever.

Grayson

Adam Full Fluid wrote: »

As a young person with a not-so-in-demand degree (hopefully anyway), I hope to never leave Ireland because I love nothing more than going to GAA matches (neutral or otherwise).

Am I f*cking insane?

I'm not into GAA. But am I right in thinking it's not played all year through? There's a good few months each year where there's no matches. You could head backpacking for a few months after the last match of the season.

hobie21

Staying in Mayo to follow GAA. Lol. Yeah, you are kind of mad. What part of Mayo?

Just because you are comfortable with a place shouldn't mean not seeing what else is out there.

muppetshow1451

Sounds like the average joe