What career pays well and is easily accessible

Ubbquittious

Inspired by the difficult career path thread. What sector is crying out for people and paying well?

Kristopherus

Whoring, for women anyway:D:D:D

kowloon

I'm going to guess this thread is used by people to put down jobs they have no respect for.

_blaaz

Scaffolding....pays decent enough wages

Rows Grower

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Inspired by the difficult career path thread. What sector is crying out for people and paying well?

Hitman, drug dealer, swing supervisor.

Atlantic Dawn

Labourer on building site
Taxi driver

odyssey06

Career personal injuries claimant.

Pissartist

People trafficking

kneemos

Sales,if you're good at it.

_Brian

My 16yo did a 1 week course to teach swimming and earns €12.50 per half hour for lessons.
She just completed another 1 week and is a qualified lifeguard, I think it pays similar.

Not a career but a decent earner for a 16yo and not hard work.

She’s a decent swimmer and competes at international level.

It’s her plan for working through college and perhaps summers on the continent on campsites.

Wildly Boaring

In construction any of the dry trades
Electrician
Plumber
Tiler

Reasonable money with no entry requirements.

Big money - hard to get into but no real requirements
Tunnelling
Best paid guy I've met on a site was a tunnel boring machine driver. But only about 3 in the country

Feisar

QS

Wildly Boaring

Feisar wrote: »

QS

Ugh
Zero craic.

Your Face

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Inspired by the difficult career path thread. What sector is crying out for people and paying well?

Technical roles in manufacturing.
Seems like there's a shortage of technicians lately.
A good guide is what courses are being offered on Springboard.

Feisar

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

Ugh
Zero craic.

Who are ya tellin'!

Cee-Jay-Cee

Become a traveller. You don’t ever have to work and you will have more money for cars/vans, lavish weddings, first communions, funerals etc etc than anyone who has to work for a living. Revenue dept will be afraid of their life of you and give you every thing you ask for just to get rid of you. You can play the traveller card everywhere and so will have more rights than settled people.

s7ryf3925pivug

Software development if you have any aptitude for it.

Seems like all the trades. Australia incentivizing migration. Stupid attitude that everyone should go to college. The **** dip in the construction industry. All these contributed to a general bad lack of tradespeople now.

ToddyDoody

Nails.

Sonny noggs

Bus driver.

kneemos

Ice cream van. Quite good money by all accounts.

Nobelium

Deandre Skinny Baritone wrote: »

Software development if you have any aptitude for it.

far from easily accessible . . unless you're naturally talented at it, very fast, happy to be glued to a screen 50-60 hrs per week, and obsessed with IT, and happy to completely retrain yourself in everything every few years to keep up . .few are that dedicated. Many try it though based on the myth anyone can do it.

touts

Civil Service desk jobs don't seem too stressful, don't seem to need too many qualifications and are pretty well paid for what they do. Don't know how accessable they are though. You probably have to know someone in there to get a job.

radharc

Steel fixing and concrete work

0ph0rce0

Wildly Boaring wrote:

In construction any of the dry trades Electrician Plumber Tiler

Reasonable money with no entry requirements.

Hmmm pretty sure you can't just rock up to building sites and start wiring houses and fitting gas boilers with no entry requirements. Are you for real?

biko

Learn to code

kneemos

Could probably do a bit of painting. Your own boss and cash in hand.

Atoms for Peace

I was making more money with no qualifications working in construction than I am now with a third level stem qualification.

Wildly Boaring

0ph0rce0 wrote: »

Hmmm pretty sure you can't just rock up to building sites and start wiring houses and fitting gas boilers with no entry requirements. Are you for real?

There are no entry requirements to an apprenticeship.

Not like you need 600 in the leaving and a diverse extra curricular activities portfolio.

4 years of low wages and voila.

Most jobs these days are 4 years of college min. In fact most graduates finding they need a masters by now

Nobelium

kneemos wrote: »

Ice cream van. Quite good money by all accounts.

you don't make it selling ice cream though . . .

ToddyDoody

Nobelium wrote: »

kneemos wrote: »

Ice cream van. Quite good money by all accounts.

you don't make it selling ice cream though . . .

True. The real margin is in the flake.

Sonny noggs

ToddyDoody wrote: »

True. The real margin is in the flake.

Thought it was in the drugs they sell

Edgware

touts wrote: »

Civil Service desk jobs don't seem too stressful, don't seem to need too many qualifications and are pretty well paid for what they do. Don't know how accessable they are though. You probably have to know someone in there to get a job.

No you dont. Just do the ****ing exam. If you cant pass that dont resign your village idiot post.

Edgware

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

There are no entry requirements to an apprenticeship.

Not like you need 600 in the leaving and a diverse extra curricular activities portfolio.

4 years of low wages and voila.

Most jobs these days are 4 years of college min. In fact most graduates finding they need a masters by now

Piano player in a brothel pays well

kneemos

Retail store.

Nobelium

ToddyDoody wrote: »

True. The real margin is in the flake.

and not cadbury's

Ipso

. . .

Night shift in a factory. **** work though.

ToddyDoody

Sonny noggs wrote: »

ToddyDoody wrote: »

True. The real margin is in the flake.

Thought it was in the drugs they sell

Ah no, the gardai would be well wise to that type of thing. Easy sting operation.

vargoo

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

4 years of low wages and voila.

2.

Decent from year 3.

corcaigh1

Nobelium wrote: »

you don't make it selling ice cream though . . .

Duncan Bannatyne had a venture selling ice cream...

touts

touts wrote: »

Civil Service desk jobs don't seem too stressful, don't seem to need too many qualifications and are pretty well paid for what they do. Don't know how accessable they are though. You probably have to know someone in there to get a job.

Ah they get paid crap though, unless you are qualified

screamer

Become a carer in nursing home. Lots of jobs, pays well. Couldn’t do it myself but know plenty of people who are making a decent living at it

ChikiChiki

There's a lot to be said for construction jobs. Pay decent, keeps you fit if your willing to work and you have the end of day satisfaction of a job done well. Same can't be said for a lot of office jobs with deadlines and an always on mantra with phones and laptops.

I found office politics tedious. Working in construction now and spending evenings on my hobbies instead of worrying about project deliveries and happy out.

Wildly Boaring

ChikiChiki wrote: »

There's a lot to be said for construction jobs. Pay decent, keeps you fit if your willing to work and you have the end of day satisfaction of a job done well. Same can't be said for a lot of office jobs with deadlines and an always on mantra with phones and laptops.

I found office politics tedious. Working in construction now and spending evenings on my hobbies instead of worrying about project deliveries and happy out.

Problem in this country is the inevitable downturn. If like last time and capital spend halted completely you may make sure the mattress is well stuffed.

Make hay now anyway

Nobelium

ChikiChiki wrote: »

There's a lot to be said for construction jobs. Pay decent, keeps you fit if your willing to work and you have the end of day satisfaction of a job done well. Same can't be said for a lot of office jobs with deadlines and an always on mantra with phones and laptops.

I found office politics tedious. Working in construction now and spending evenings on my hobbies instead of worrying about project deliveries and happy out.

i went the opposite way, glad to get out of the years of dirty dangerous work in all weathers, travelling all the time, in an unregulated (in reality) industry full of unscrupulous cowboys, bluffers and gangsters.

bri007

A carer is a tough job. Long hours, not enough staff usually and take a lot of stress of the job home with you.

screamer wrote: »

Become a carer in nursing home. Lots of jobs, pays well. Couldn’t do it myself but know plenty of people who are making a decent living at it

Redpunto

Kristopherus wrote: »

Whoring, for women anyway:D:D:D

Yeah coz nobody would wanna touch u even if u paid them for it

ChikiChiki

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

ChikiChiki wrote: »

There's a lot to be said for construction jobs. Pay decent, keeps you fit if your willing to work and you have the end of day satisfaction of a job done well. Same can't be said for a lot of office jobs with deadlines and an always on mantra with phones and laptops.

I found office politics tedious. Working in construction now and spending evenings on my hobbies instead of worrying about project deliveries and happy out.

Problem in this country is the inevitable downturn. If like last time and capital spend halted completely you may make sure the mattress is well stuffed.

Make hay now anyway

I'm lucky enough my qualifications are Finance & Accounting and professional certs project related so that I can jump back into consulting in the global market when the inevitable downturn does come. But I do prefer the manual labour!

Tipped away filling a skip today after weeks of demolition and had the tunes on. Happy out :-)

kneemos

ChikiChiki wrote: »

I'm lucky enough my qualifications are Finance & Accounting and professional certs project related so that I can jump back into consulting in the global market when the inevitable downturn does come. But I do prefer the manual labour!

Tipped away filling a skip today after weeks of demolition and had the tunes on. Happy out :-)

No bubble this time though,just a lack of housing and labour.
Neither of which are being filled.

pgj2015

i worked on the buildings for a few years, then got a degree and an office job, hated it and quit very soon after. working on sites in ireland in winter is tough but id rather that than an office job any day.

Ahorseofaman

Edgware wrote: »

Piano player in a brothel pays well

Are you kidding?350 euro for 4 nights?
(They wanted 500 but I beat them down,no flies on me)
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