Life Coaching.... seems the rip-offer becomes to rip-ee

B.A._Baracus

So life coaching. A load of balls, right?
Came across a life coach the other day randomly on Google. So I decided to see how much courses are as they stated they learned through a certain college here in Ireland.

Not gonna name the college in question, as who am I to publically slate someone else trying making a few quid, but you can easily google it yourself and see the college in question should you choose. It's in Dublin.

So the course they run is spread over 6 months. It only consists of 14 full days. Each day is 6 hours. So a total of 84 hours and it costs.... drum roll .... 3,500 euro :pac:

I find it funny that life coaching is a load of balls and a con but they too get conned by these colleges lol.

Thoughts?

Cee-Jay-Cee

The way I would look at something like that is, if you are stupid enough to need ‘life coaching’ in the first place and you have that kinda money to blow on such a BS course then it’s probably money well spent.

B.A._Baracus

True I guess.
I should also add it's funny that anyone would pay 3,500 as from what I read being a Life Coach doesn't require some degree. Anyone can do it :pac:

Woke Hogan

I would be sympathetic to the people who turn to "life coaches" for help, they're clearly fairly desperate if they have to go to those lengths to improve their lot in life. As for the life coaches themselves: I despise any shyster.

Woke Hogan

Woke Hogan wrote: »

I would be sympathetic to the people who turn to "life coaches" for help, they're clearly fairly desperate if they have to go to those lengths to improve their lot in life. As for the life coaches themselves: I despise any shyster.

You claim to be "sympathetic", then adopt a holier than thou attitude in the next sentence. Slow hand clap.

AlphabetCards

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

True I guess.
I should also add it's funny that anyone would pay 3,500 as from what I read being a Life Coach doesn't require some degree. Anyone can do it :pac:

Even most degrees are bolloxology these days, coming from a man with three. Anyone can pass them, grade inflation is at an all time high, and in the UK where they pay £9000 per annum, no-one is allowed fail.

Woke Hogan

Deleted User wrote: »

You claim to be "sympathetic", then adopt a holier than thou attitude in the next sentence. Slow hand clap.

Tired and emotional again, Bertie? You probably can't clap any faster without missing at this stage anyway.

CrankyHaus

Feisar

AlphabetCards wrote: »

Even most degrees are bolloxology these days, coming from a man with three. Anyone can pass them, grade inflation is at an all time high, and in the UK where they pay £9000 per annum, no-one is allowed fail.

Load of crap these days, it's mad some degrees are seen as an achievement.

JohnnyFlash

[Deleted User] wrote: »

You claim to be "sympathetic", then adopt a holier than thou attitude in the next sentence. Slow hand clap.

It’s true though. You can be sympathetic to someone, and still think they are a fücking eejit. I think you were trying to get one over on Hogan, Bertie, and ended up not thinking about this. Oh dear.

Perhaps a visit to a life coach to see why you take things on this site so seriously might be in order? I can give you the answer and I’ll only charge you €1000 euro - my usual fee is €2000. And if you order today I’ll throw in a free ebook.

Raconteuse

Johnny, that "Woke" person just attacks and sneers at people post after post after post, only pretending to be an empathetic person when it's to be contrarian (and as another way of having a go at people).

How come you're not commenting on him taking things so seriously here?

NIMAN

Sure the country is full of chiropractors, acupuncturists, kinesiologists, homeopaths, faith healers, mediums too.

All cranks making a good living.

Fools and their money....

Raconteuse

Raconteuse wrote: »

Johnny, that "Woke" person just attacks and sneers at people post after post after post, only pretending to be an empathetic person when it's to be contrarian.

How come you're not commenting on him taking things so seriously here?

It's "sock monster" syndrome, left hand for one and right the other. Always posting a few minutes apart. I needn't elaborate.

Tow

€3,500 is a good price, if it ends there. I know of people who have spent much more on Tony Quinn...

JohnnyFlash

Raconteuse wrote: »

Johnny, that "Woke" person just attacks and sneers at people post after post after post, only pretending to be an empathetic person when it's to be contrarian (and as another way of having a go at people).

How come you're not commenting on him taking things so seriously here?

Dude seems to have a perfectly reasonable point to me. The point being that someone can be as thick as two short planks and and you still don’t like to seen them ripped off, especially if they are in a bad place emotionally. That’s what conmen and shysters do - prey on greed, desperation, or a mixture of both.

Then yourself and Bertie, the two AH ‘hall monitors’ appear around the corner to issue him with a warning. Hogan just strikes me as a slightly grumpy auld fella with a contrarian streak. A very common sort in Ireland. Relax and stop getting so wound up by all this stuff.

Raconteuse

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Dude seems to have a perfectly reasonable point to me. The point being that someone can be as thick as two short planks and and you still don’t like to seen them ripped off, especially if they are in a bad place emotionally. That’s what conmen and shysters do - prey on greed, desperation, or a mixture of both.

Then yourself and Bertie, the two AH ‘hall monitors’ appear around the corner to issue him with a warning. Hogan just strikes me as a slightly grumpy auld fella with a contrarian streak. A very common sort in Ireland. Relax and stop getting so wound up by all this stuff.

Slightly grumpy? Don't be disingenuous. He's venomous, personally attacking people day in day out. Usually the kind of person whose politics you despise. I didn't say anything about the comment above by him. I mean in general, and the irony of you not saying to him to stop taking things so seriously, when he would literally attack someone for just disagreeing with him. The only reason he pretends to respect religious people is to have a go at atheists.

Very strange.

I'm no more hall monitor than anyone else who dislikes bullying. Plenty of people comment on the posting style of others here - you certainly being no exception.

YFlyer

Learn a well established meditation technique and be self sufficient.

Junkyard Tom

I'm calling the thread police for you lot.

Wayne Jarvis

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

I'm calling the thread police for you lot.

Snitches Get Stitches

Earthhorse

What an incredibly fun thread I've discovered.

I know people who've been helped by life coaching. Didn't pay thousands for the privilege though.

If you do the maths on it though, €3500 divided by 84 hours is €41 an hour.

Doesn't seem far off what I'd expect these services to be.

Woke Hogan

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Dude seems to have a perfectly reasonable point to me. The point being that someone can be as thick as two short planks and and you still don’t like to seen them ripped off, especially if they are in a bad place emotionally. That’s what conmen and shysters do - prey on greed, desperation, or a mixture of both.

Then yourself and Bertie, the two AH ‘hall monitors’ appear around the corner to issue him with a warning. Hogan just strikes me as a slightly grumpy auld fella with a contrarian streak. A very common sort in Ireland. Relax and stop getting so wound up by all this stuff.

Yes that was exactly my point. Good grief how could you feel anything but empathy for these poor desperate souls who have to resort to hiring unqualified con artists to help them out?

EmmetSpiceland

Earthhorse wrote: »

What an incredibly fun thread I've discovered.

I know people who've been helped by life coaching. Didn't pay thousands for the privilege though.

If you do the maths on it though, €3500 divided by 84 hours is €41 an hour.

Doesn't seem far off what I'd expect these services to be.

Yeah, I remember hearing of a “life coach” in Tipp, I think it was, who was steering people right. Especially the post-leaving cert types who hadn’t a “scooby” what they wanted to do.

But, like with nutritionists/personal trainers, you can get a serious amount of spoofers just out to gouge vulnerable folk out of their, in some cases, hard earned cash.

You’d see the same in the “holistic healing” game. I’m sure there are some “healers” out there who might have a gift, Seán Boylan and the likes, but the vast majority are charlatans bilking whomever they can.

B.A._Baracus

Earthhorse wrote: »

What an incredibly fun thread I've discovered.

I know people who've been helped by life coaching. Didn't pay thousands for the privilege though.

If you do the maths on it though, €3500 divided by 84 hours is €41 an hour.

Doesn't seem far off what I'd expect these services to be.

I wonder how popular life coaching would be in Ireland tho. Meant to be quite popular in the states. I wouldn't be surprised to hear so many barely eek a living out of it and it's only a side-line type of thing. Obviously theres always going to be those who do well. But overall.

I knew a life coach once. Wasn't friends with him. Just knew him. He moonlighted as one while being a digital marketer. I guess bs'in just is his game. lol.

Annurca Apples

While I strongly doubt the quality of such life coaching I think most people could benefit from an outside view of their life and how they navigate the world.

pgj2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frLaq1VELfo

Capt'n Midnight

Why didn't Cinderella make a good footballer ?

She had a pumpkin as a coach :pac:




A pumpkin would be far from the worst life coach out there.