How about get a degree where there are jobs instead of crying about it.

Because not everyone has an interest/ability to do well in the business/IT/engineering courses

Because the world doesn't work like they way it does in your head - people usually learn this as a child.

Fccwontletmebe wrote: »

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/austerity-forced-me-out-of-ireland-now-i-don-t-know-how-to-return-1.4157890?fbclid=IwAR2qVpxxaaO54E-O2vWFjkhfgRKTRO8Q90BQ_GtLgDVmQTqlgzCGUZuaq7s

Things like this really irritate me. Sense of entitlement culture.

Why get a degree dictated by the market that the market could decide is worthless whenever it suits them. This lad sounds happy enough to have followed his passion and seems to have made the right decision for himself.

Why are you so angry? touched a nerve?

I see the guy added in mental health, depression and homelessness, it seems like everyone in Ireland now suffers with at least one of these things. I'm surprised he didn't throw in allergic to gluten.



Ps. I know mental health, depression and homelessness are real and they're serious problems but it seems like everyone now has self diagnosed depression or homeless because they live at home.

Better Than Christ wrote: »

Emigrating in search of work is 'entitlement culture' now, is it?

Fucking hell, I've seen some stupid threads on here...

He apparently felt “entitled” to a job that makes use of his masters in literature. As if there’s much use for that in a small town in rural Ireland.

Jesus wept! Did he never think of investigating potential job prospects during the 5-6 years completing his masters?

By his own admission, he went to London & worked in a shop & lived in a ****ty flat so he could save enough to take up an unpaid internship. I applaud his attitude & graft. But London was no picnic for him either, so he needs to lose the rose tinted glasses.

In Clare he couldn't get a job in a shop.
In London he got a job in a shop.
All is well.

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Careful now, there’s a few on here who think the “Arts” degree is the height of enlightenment and not the, giant, waste of time it actually is.

An arts degree does afford one a great foundation for further learning.
It's a broad based melange that all too many seem to waste.

Some of the best colleagues I've worked with entered employment with Arts degrees.

Doing an arts degree and following it up with a master's in Literature and expecting your hobby to lead to gainful employment is a little bit optimistic.
Particularly if that employment is expected to be local.

Plenty he could do via remote working, such as editing or proofing.
Offering tutorials or study support are just a few that spring to mind.
Moving to find work appropriate to ones qualifications is part and parcel of life.
If staying local mattered, he should have planned his educational choices better.

Coincidentally, I am currently a 1st student back at Uni (Not doing Arts ) I do however share a couple of modules with a large cohort of "Arts" students.

Kids who have no actual direction in life, who would be far better served by decent guidance prior to the CAO than by been thrown into a pick and mix world of modules that most seek easy A's or handiest post hangover tutorials.

Plenty of bright, smart and potentially brilliant kids being mediocre and homogeneous by choice.

Fccwontletmebe wrote: »

All you should be taught in an Arts degree is the below in multiple languages without Maths/Science/ IT/teaching modules is.

"Would you like fries with that"

I think you might benefit from a few days' free education by sitting in on Arts lectures. It might give you an inkling of what syntax means with regards to sentence structure. God only knows what you're actually trying to express....

Iscreamkone wrote: »

A friend of mine has a cleaner who does 3 hours a week for her. She’s in her 60s, is from Lithuania and has little spoken English. She works hard to make a living. She doesn’t complain if the conditions are hard or very casual. She makes enough money to get by. She doesn’t ask for money & stuff from the government like a lot of Irish do. If she gets paid cash in hand - good luck to her.

I am not sure how your friend knows exactly what her cleaner claims in benefits or doesn't. People who work for cash and are on benefits usually don't go around avertising the same for many reasons.

I sensed attention seeking or someone trying to get a regular column in the Irish Times.

This man every kind of opportunity, every kind of service and every form of education in rural counties.