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

  • 30-08-2020 12:17PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 64 ✭✭


    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?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 545 ✭✭✭CageWager


    EU Commissioner


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,032 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Doctors still do IMO.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 548 ✭✭✭JasonStatham


    Sport maybe? Rugby, GAA?

    IT is pretty solid here.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭ThewhiteJesus


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 798 ✭✭✭Yyhhuuu


    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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 666 ✭✭✭COVID


    Rose of Tralee escort.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭.anon.


    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.


  • Posts: 17,925 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,018 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    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


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭smellyoldboot


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,575 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


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

    "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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    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!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭GooglePlus


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Eduard Khil


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


  • Posts: 2,093 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 925 ✭✭✭BuboBubo


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    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.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭s1ippy


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 917 ✭✭✭Mr_Muffin


    Sandwich Artists.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,360 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,327 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Mr_Muffin wrote: »
    Sandwich Artists.

    My local place has ‘coffee consultants’


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 798 ✭✭✭Yyhhuuu


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,863 ✭✭✭touts


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,863 ✭✭✭touts


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,226 ✭✭✭gifted


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    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?


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