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What career pays well and is easily accessible

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  • 06-06-2019 9:42pm
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    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users Posts: 6,181 ✭✭✭


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


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    Kristopherus
    Registered Users Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    Whoring, for women anyway:D:D:D


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    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,283 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


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


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    _blaaz
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    Scaffolding....pays decent enough wages


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    Rows Grower
    Registered Users Posts: 7,831 ✭✭✭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.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



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    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 81,184 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Labourer on building site
    Taxi driver


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    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,904 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Career personal injuries claimant.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    Pissartist
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 473 ✭✭Pissartist


    People trafficking


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    kneemos
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    Sales,if you're good at it.


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    _Brian
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    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.


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    Wildly Boaring
    Registered Users Posts: 3,629 ✭✭✭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


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    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,602 ✭✭✭Feisar


    QS

    First they came for the socialists...



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    Wildly Boaring
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    Feisar wrote: »
    QS

    Ugh
    Zero craic.


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    Your Face
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    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.


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    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,602 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Wildly Boaring wrote: »
    Ugh
    Zero craic.

    Who are ya tellin'!

    First they came for the socialists...



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    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    s7ryf3925pivug
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    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.


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    ToddyDoody
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    Nails.


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    Sonny noggs
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    Bus driver.


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    kneemos
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    Ice cream van. Quite good money by all accounts.


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    Nobelium
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    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.


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    touts
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    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.


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    radharc
    Registered Users Posts: 965 ✭✭✭radharc


    Steel fixing and concrete work


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    0ph0rce0
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    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?


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    biko
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    Learn to code :D


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


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


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    Wildly Boaring
    Registered Users Posts: 3,629 ✭✭✭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


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    Nobelium
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    kneemos wrote: »
    Ice cream van. Quite good money by all accounts.

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


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    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users Posts: 4,421 ✭✭✭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.


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    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    True. The real margin is in the flake.

    Thought it was in the drugs they sell :(


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