Do any careers still enjoy high social status in Ireland today?

Cirrus Incus · 30-08-2020 12:17PM #1

Does your career affect your standing in society?

The traditionally high prestige and high earning professions (doctors, lawyers, judges, politicians, bankers .etc.) have taken a battering in recent years due to various scandals. Respect and trust in general seems to be at an all time low now.

Do any professions still get elevated respect from society, justified or not?

CageWager · 30-08-2020 12:21PM

EU Commissioner

Feisar · 30-08-2020 12:22PM

Doctors still do IMO.

JasonStatham · 30-08-2020 12:22PM

Sport maybe? Rugby, GAA?

IT is pretty solid here.

ThewhiteJesus · 30-08-2020 12:22PM

As long as you are not a straight white male you’ll do great these days

Yyhhuuu · 30-08-2020 03:26PM

ThewhiteJesus wrote: »

As long as you are not a straight white male you’ll do great these days

I find many doctors ( not all) are very greedy as regards money. There should be an NHS equivalent in Ireland. They dont have the prestige they once had. I know many of my family are medics.

COVID · 30-08-2020 03:47PM

Rose of Tralee escort.

.anon. · 30-08-2020 03:52PM

ThewhiteJesus wrote: »

As long as you are not a straight white male you’ll do great these days

I suppose if you achieve nothing in life, you can always make yourself feel less inadequate by blaming it on the fact that you're not a black lesbian. It's a bit pathetic though, the whole "woe is me, I'm a straight, white male" act.

30-08-2020 03:57PM

Since most folk do a trade or go to college there's little prestige in any career.

Teacher had an element of prestige decades back for example... So too AGS etc & as mentioned even bank clerks.

Judges, barristers & surgeons to a degree I suppose have but many reckon judges and barristers are part of the legal aid gravy train that doesn't benefit society so they're viewed as a pack of coconuts also. And surgeons / consultants are caught up in the public v private medical squabbles also .... Two tier health service.

Rubberchikken · 30-08-2020 04:02PM

Imo there aren't any.
To have any 'prestige' in my eyes you do your job honourably and efficiently.

We have teacher, garda I, judges politicians betc that have shown themselves to be a disgrace to their so-called profession.

mikemac2 · 30-08-2020 04:25PM

Bank clerk used to be a very good job. A job in a bank was a job for life

Nowadays you would earn more and have better job security in a supermarket

smellyoldboot · 30-08-2020 04:28PM

Engineer. lmao. Try explaining to the average shmuck you have never touched a car engine or that fixing their computer/washing machine/boiler isn't what an actual engineer does at all

Rows Grower · 30-08-2020 04:31PM

Nurses, doctors, ambulance drivers and those in the fire service are the people I would have most respect for regarding their choice of career.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 30-08-2020 04:33PM

mikemac2 wrote: »

Bank clerk used to be a very good job. A job in a bank was a job for life

You make it wounds like a prison sentence!

GooglePlus · 30-08-2020 04:33PM

ThewhiteJesus wrote: »

As long as you are not a straight white male you’ll do great these days

I've a few gay friends and they seem to be doing a lot better than the rest of our group but they have their head screwed on, so it's their own doing.

Women send us straight lads stupid.

Eduard Khil · 30-08-2020 04:35PM

Union mafia jobs still held in high esteem by them themselves at least.

30-08-2020 04:38PM

Anyone in the medical field is beyond criticism in Ireland. Particularly nurses.

BuboBubo · 30-08-2020 04:41PM

The playing field has levelled in recent years. The farmers (the ones with high acreage), doctors and priests were the big-knobs up to the late 1980s.

It was a horrible two-class society, I'm glad it's blurred somewhat.

Your Face · 30-08-2020 05:12PM

No, I think people are not as awed by job titles anymore.
That could be the result of people being given important-sounding titles for unimportant jobs.

s1ippy · 30-08-2020 05:18PM

GooglePlus wrote: »

Women send us straight lads stupid.

Women are responsible for issues with the intellect of straight males..?

I guess there are a lot more female teachers than males, but it's not the fault of women that more men don't become teachers.

I'm not seeing this one.

Mr_Muffin · 30-08-2020 05:22PM

Sandwich Artists.

Wompa1 · 30-08-2020 05:23PM

No. As someone already suggested everyone gets at least a degree these days. Degree, Masters and PhDs have become more common so it makes less of an impression now.

eviltwin · 30-08-2020 05:27PM

I respect anyone who goes out to work regardless of what qualifications they have or what job they do.

colm_mcm · 30-08-2020 05:32PM

Mr_Muffin wrote: »

Sandwich Artists.

My local place has ‘coffee consultants’

Yyhhuuu · 30-08-2020 05:41PM

mikemac2 wrote: »

Bank clerk used to be a very good job. A job in a bank was a job for life

Nowadays you would earn more and have better job security in a supermarket

That must explain why the calibre of bankers has decreased in recent decades.

touts · 30-08-2020 05:51PM

Social Influencers seem to be very important.

At least they claim they are when they demand free stuff from restaurants, hotels, shops etc or they will tell their thousands of followers. "Give me and my like 6 bbfs here a free meal or I'll tell my like 20,000 insta followers how like awful this place is". 30 years ago gangsters used to try that with the old "yuz got a lot of veby valuable gear in here. Twod be n awful shame if the place burned down".

20 years ago protection rackets were fraud but apparently now they are social marketing strategy.

touts · 30-08-2020 05:56PM

CEO of a charity seems to be a fairly cushy number that has a fair amount of respect. €150k salary on top makes it pretty much the best gig in town these days. That's why charities are spawning like rabbits.

gifted · 30-08-2020 05:56PM

I don't think people really care anymore what career a person has....most people realise that the vast majority of working people have the same problems as them regardless of what career they have........obviously a surgeon will make more than the average factory worker but I think people don't really care anymore.

As long as a person carries themselves well they'll be respected anyway.

whisky_galore · 30-08-2020 06:05PM

touts wrote: »

CEO of a charity seems to be a fairly cushy number that has a fair amount of respect. €150k salary on top makes it pretty much the best gig in town these days. That's why charities are spawning like rabbits.

We were always soft touches in this country, hence the success of the 'ah god luv dem' sector.

skooterblue2 · 30-08-2020 06:15PM

Feisar wrote: »

Doctors still do IMO.

All the good doctors are emigrating. they are importing are ones who arent good enough to work in their own countries.

skooterblue2 · 30-08-2020 06:19PM

touts wrote: »

CEO of a charity seems to be a fairly cushy number that has a fair amount of respect. €150k salary on top makes it pretty much the best gig in town these days. That's why charities are spawning like rabbits.

For every 250 people there is a registered charity. Does that make you head spin?

Do any careers still enjoy high social status in Ireland today?

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