Highest paid careers in Ireland and what they require - What have I left out?

Actuary (Need to be brilliant at Maths. Ideal candidate would find honours maths a breeze to get through)

Stock Trader, Financial Analyst, Quantitative Analyst (Same as above)

Solicitor ( Avid reader and good at learning off vast amounts of information)

Accountant ( Good with figures, attention to detail)

Software Developer ( Very specific type of brain needed here, needs to be good at discrete maths and abstract thinking, very few people make the cut)

Doctor/Consultant (Long journey to big money, retaining information, dealing with people, etc,..)

Data Scientist (Needs a PHD in Statistics, similar type of brain to Software Developer)

** The above list is not in any order**

Whatdoesitmatter

Not sure what the point of this thread is

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118938786#Comment_118938786

Just for myself really. I know there's a good few I've left out, which is why I'm asking.

Xidu

Don’t forget about the directors VPs senior managers in big tech companies.

FAANGM, Twitter, Logitech…EMC

nowdays house agent make big commissions too you will be surprised how much they make!

construction leader or site mangers makes good money according to another thread.

Instagram influencer if you have over 1m followers

Jim_Hodge

Is the identical post in Reddit yours, or did you copy it?

You've made no allowance for experience or length of service.

A decent CEO has to be up there and the requirements vary.

M. O'Leary has earned up to €4m per year.

Crime pays well at times too.

sam t smith

The importance of maths for software development is always overstated.

SuperBowserWorld

"Software Developer ( Very specific type of brain needed here, needs to be good at discrete maths and abstract thinking, very few people make the cut)"

Not at all, an absolute load of chancers in the industry doing very well indeed. Don't be fooled by all the marketing bullshit.

Honest, empathic, analytical, logical, hard working, tenacious, team player, patient, good communicator, ... These for a lot of jobs. Then love of programming for software developer role.

Anything is mid level or above IT or SaaS sales. some chaps I know very well are on easy over 200K a year.

martinedwards

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058242080/highest-paid-careers-in-ireland-and-what-they-require-what-have-i-left-out

I have 4 kids.

eldest is software engineer (Cambridge)

#2 is a Doctor (Bangor, Wales)

#3 graduates in July and starts with one of the big 4 accountancy firms in Belfast

#4 starts her Civil engineering masters in October.

According to this list..... she's let us all down very badly!

El Tarangu

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118955179#Comment_118955179

hey nice seeds you got in your sack there, bro

Royale with Cheese

I do reasonably well as a software developer and I'm fairly shít at maths. There is absolutely zero maths in most of the dev work out there which is generic business app development. The amount of maths involved in a Computer Science undergrad has probably put quite a few people off the career who'd have made good developers otherwise. It's why I didn't even consider it on my CAO and only got into it through a postgrad course that had no maths involved.

I actually worked with somebody before who had a degree in maths and 590 in his leaving cert who somehow ended up in a junior coding role, he was terrible at it and has since left the industry. It's definitely not for everyone but your maths ability isn't particularly relevant.

IT uses logic and problem solving more than maths. For non IT people, think And and Or logic gates and sudoku.

B.A._Baracus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118955244#Comment_118955244

Exactly. I know a few developers and, one in particular, told me he only knows enough to get by basically. That if asked to build some system from scratch he couldn't.

Op, a lot of things in life are bluff. There's also a thing where if you know zero about something, it will come off as so hard to do or learn.

Stock traders - couldn't predict if it was going to rain. But know the basics about stock trading etc. (They'd all be millonaires if they knew what would make money)

Solicitor - laws and knowledge comes with experience. I personally think the biggest skill is twisting things to suit your narrative.

Accountant - again know the basics and as long as you can use Excell well lol.

Doctor - to be fair it does take a special type of person. If I mess up in my job no big deal I can just fix something. But dealing with people's health? Not something you could wing.

I see sheep

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058242080/highest-paid-careers-in-ireland-and-what-they-require-what-have-i-left-out

I got a 1.1 in my Software Development course and I'm terrible at Maths.

mrcheez

All you need to be a Software Dev is a logical mindset (and a lot of patience as you learn the ins and outs of coding), but even still some complete messers in the industry that survive and just hop around the place.

No need for maths at all.

In fact, if you're good at lego that's analogous to being good at code. It's about how you structure things.

Richard Hillman

CEO of a NGO. A degree in bullshittery is needed and friends in the media.

Sleepy

RTE Presenter. Requires family contacts in Montrose.

Politician. Requires an ancestor who held a seat in Dail Eireann. Bonus points if he/she was verifiably present in the GPO during the Easter '16 Rising.

OEP

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058242080/highest-paid-careers-in-ireland-and-what-they-require-what-have-i-left-out

A data scientist doesn't need a PhD in Statistics. Typically you'll need a degree and masters from something like Maths, Physics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science. PhD obviously helps

Ubbquittious

Any IT job. You can start on 100k for a basic support job, helping clueless folk find word documents they accidentally saved in the wrong folder and explaining how to plug in an ethernet cable.

Work your way up after a year or two of that do some active directory and install a couple of PoE switches for about 200k a year.

After that you can do a bit of Python/PHP/Javascript. Minimum 300-500k a year for this plus generous perks that usually include a Tesla. Do it for a couple of years, start your own consultancy business, you should get close to 1 mil a year advising companies on which cloud providers to use and clunking together a few open source CRM systems for them.

Cobble together your own CRM system, run it off a $5 VPS from DigitalOcean and a domain from Anguilla, pay a couple of Indians to handle the day-to-day support remotely, hand 100k to an Irish sales guy to drive around hooking up customers & retire to live like a lord on a beach in Barbados

screamer

Software dev is going to be outmoded soon or at least de-watered with citizen coders.

anyways, look on glass door or similar for salary scales. BTW there’s trades people out there making more money than doctors right now. So, depends on the lens you want to look through.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118957859#Comment_118957859

Lol

sam t smith

What is a ‘citizen coder’?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118957920#Comment_118957920

It's like when I cook a mean ragu, it's fine as far as it goes, just as long as I don't then think I'm better than Gordon Ramsay or that I could hold down a job as a chef with no training.

CGI_Livia_Soprano

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118957859#Comment_118957859

Wow, resentful much?

Buddy Bubs

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118957859#Comment_118957859

So the sales guy who is goid enough and works hard enough to be bringing in enough revenue to afford you that lifestyle will do it for same salary as the basic support person?

CGI_Livia_Soprano

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118958063#Comment_118958063

Lol yeah, those poor put down upon sales guys. Hahahaha

My nephew works in sales and once after I invited him out to lunch I insisted he paid. He was so used to getting comped lunches from his bosses or “the client” that he forgot how to pay for his own meals himself. He doesn’t know how to pay for lunch.