Best Career : Employment rate and Pay

Astro127 wrote: »

Most diaries on that thing are all software engineers Haha, might have to go back and study that part time .

yup, but it's really kind of self-selecting. Majority of people who are going to apply to be on these things are going to be the high earners and low outgoings. I honestly think his groceries is a little low (€30) for a young healthy adult and his take-away choices and how he works e.g. skipping lunches to "get more work done" and left over pizza is stereotypical "coder". It sounds like misery to me but still fair play to him for landing that type of money right out of college. When I graduated ~10 years ago ~25k was the norm.

Astro127 wrote: »

They are making more then a pilot, which is crazy doubt it's that hard to become a software engineer vs a pilot, doctor and solicitor .

Well, of the 4 jobs listed there, the pilot is the only one that can be easily automated. Ironically, by one of the other 3 listed jobs
But which one is it?
a) doctor
b) solicitor
c) software engineer

Carl D wrote: »

Not sure if best career or not but not a hard job to do . Prison Officer dont need a degree or anything more time off then most jobs other then teachers. make up to 1k a week or more if want extra hours .seems like a handy number if dont mind 12 hours shifts and working nights. Good pension aswell

Be fairly boring and depressing tho....?

Frightening and sad really the bad press teachers get in this forum.If the job,conditions etc are all that mighty why not re train for a position?

You might find ,once you are trained that the idea of getting a full time,by that I mean a full timetable quite difficult to come by.

The usual career path is as follows,in year one you may spend the year running around doing a couple of hours subbing in a number of different schools.This is not financially viable but has to be done in order to get teaching experience.This can go on for a number of years if you are willing to stick at it.Mind you the reality is that you will emigrate after 1 or 2 years of this and will get a worthwhile post overseas and with flights paid home twice a year plus paid for furnished accomodation.

On the other hand supposing you stay in Ireland you may pick up a Maternity Leave which will give you 3 months of a full timetable ,after this you have to job search again and perhaps may not get anything for the rest of the year.

Around about year 3 or 4 ,if you are lucky enough,your local ETB will advertise a 3 or 4 hour contract for which you will apply and if you are lucky enough (know the interview panel,brown envelopes etc,and NOT compete against a son or daughter or other relative of the panel),you may find yourself with a spanking new job,3 hours per week for the whole year!!!!!! If they like you ,you may (after interviewing again,(gotta feed the interview panel yearly),) be successful and low and behold after 2 years you now qualify for a CID a contract of indefinite duration,mighty stuff,your own job,3 hours a week,imagine the richess this brings your way.....imagine running down to the Bank asking them for a loan or mortgage and telling them you have a job....3 hours a week!!!,wouldnt they laugh at you and perhaps call the local mental institution as with all due respect this sort of teacher does not exist.....or does it.Most certainly in the ETB world it does.And by the ways when the bank asks you what do you get per month,tell them that after 4 months you had not received any money as they were still processing your details(yet you have been teaching since day1 of your contract)

Now tell me what other profession treats its workers like this.I would NOT encourage any family member to go near teaching as a profession as what I have outlined above is what usually happens!

Well the best career certainly isn't an Architect. 5 years qualified and get €42,000 on crappy projects that rarely require any imagination. Well I was warned and didn't listen.

Oldest brother is a GP with a good life but for all the studying and pressure it's not that great.

Other brother is a Chartered Valuations Surveyor dealing with Compulsory Purchases Orders. Base wage is/was €70,000ish commission is insane though. €250k a year is a bad year. Works from home most days and never seems under pressure, three day weekend. 7 weeks holidays, phone, laptop, health insurance, pension etc all covered. His fiancee doesn't work, both have cool cars (new S-class and 2 year old 640d, some old powerful weekend cars) really nice house. Gives our parents a good retirement.

He says you need to be either selling hotels, working in investments or doing CPO's to make anything decent as a surveyor as most of the sector pays crap. First two years were meant to be pretty crappy.

A secondary school friend works designing or developing video games. Seems to have a nice life, enjoys his work and money seems good.