Whos emigrating then?

hooradiation · 12-12-2009 07:42PM

Long gone.

Ireland is a non-runner for my line of work, so i left for the UK. With a bit of luck I'll be moving on again next year.
Either Canada or Murka...

GiftofGab · 12-12-2009 07:50PM

Yeah I'm off to London as soon as i find a job

Bandit12 · 12-12-2009 08:15PM

Nah. Emigrated in the 90's and tbh could'nt be arsed going again. Think i'll stick around this place and watch it fall apart.

gurramok · 12-12-2009 08:19PM

googlefan wrote: »

No jobs for graduates Timbuk. I love Ireland. Halfway through my masters and nothing much waiting for us at the other end of it. This years graduates all did masters degrees to buy some time and see how things panned out. If anything they got worse so I'd expect a big increase in numbers from 2010.

Have you tried Google in Dublin on your job search?

Morton Lowry · 12-12-2009 08:20PM

When I leave school am going to America.:p

markok84 · 12-12-2009 08:31PM

I'm in my final year of college and I'll more than likely be leaving. There are no jobs in the field I'm in, so i'll be leaving purely to get the experience. I'd like to come back in 2-3 years to set up my own practice though.

googlefan · 12-12-2009 08:32PM

gurramok wrote: »

Have you tried Google in Dublin on your job search?

Yeah nice one. Not suitable jobs for my level of qualification.

dustyrip · 12-12-2009 08:35PM

gurramok wrote: »

Have you tried Google in Dublin on your job search?

Half if not more of the Google employees in Barrow street aren't even Irish.

tman · 12-12-2009 08:37PM

Things are picking up a bit now, but they're total idiots if they think things will be any better abroad...
Have been in London for a year now and I've had 1 interview so far! (thankfully I had a job sorted before I moved)

googlefan · 12-12-2009 08:46PM

tman wrote: »

Things are picking up a bit now, but they're total idiots if they think things will be any better abroad...
Have been in London for a year now and I've had 1 interview so far! (thankfully I had a job sorted before I moved)

Maybe you are a total idiot for only getting one interview! Obviously it'll depend on what industry you hope to enter, or your skills. I'm applying for jobs at the moment, as are all my friends. There are at least 20 times the amount of opportunities in the UK. Have interviews over there already.

As I already pointed out, my friend in Asia had more interviews in his first 10 days than the previous 7 months in Ireland.

givyjoe81 · 12-12-2009 08:49PM

dustyrip wrote: »

Half if not more of the Google employees in Barrow street aren't even Irish.

Shock horror... A multinational corporation employing multiple nationalities :eek:

I havent applied for the same reason, plus does anybody have any idea what 90% of their job descriptions actually mean?! Jesus the make things sound overly complicated at times.

dustyrip · 12-12-2009 08:50PM

googlefan wrote: »

Maybe you are a total idiot for only getting one interview! Obviously it'll depend on what industry you hope to enter, or your skills. I'm applying for jobs at the moment, as are all my friends. There are at least 20 times the amount of opportunities in the UK. Have interviews over there already.

As I already pointed out, my friend in Asia had more interviews in his first 10 days than the previous 7 months in Ireland.

I agree completly. There will be more jobs in the UK as its a lot bigger country. London is three times the size of Ireland so there will always be work.

givyjoe81 · 12-12-2009 08:52PM

RMD wrote: »

Plan on doing a 4 year stint in the British army. Steady pay and 100% job security and get to see some cool parts of the world and experience things most people never will.

Like death in your early twenties... in a pointless war to boot?!

opinion guy · 12-12-2009 09:32PM

Oh pretty sure i'm outta here...

gurramok · 12-12-2009 09:40PM

googlefan wrote: »

Yeah nice one. Not suitable jobs for my level of qualification.

Not all call centre jobs there! Some quite very intelligent people work there.(no, i don't work for them

)

Paypal are also hiring I hear. Only catch is that you need a foreign language.

dustyrip wrote: »

Half if not more of the Google employees in Barrow street aren't even Irish.

So? I read here about people doing their masters. Thats why i mentioned Google.

They have cream of the crop from around the globe there

rossie1977 · 12-12-2009 09:43PM

dustyrip wrote: »

I agree completly. There will be more jobs in the UK as its a lot bigger country. London is three times the size of Ireland so there will always be work.

there are also 2.5 million unemployed in the uk.

skywards · 12-12-2009 09:48PM

googlefan wrote: »

While I'm sure every industry is different, there are plenty of jobs in London, Oz and U.S. Spent some time browsing recently in t'internet.

Wrong. I'm in the US at hte moment and unless you want to work at burger king your screwed. I happen to work in a somewhat specialized field and I'm barely keeping my job.

stovelid · 12-12-2009 10:02PM

Good work.

Do it properly this time though and don't all decamp back the minute that house prices start rising again.

nyarlothothep · 12-12-2009 11:29PM

This is the frustrating thing about Ireland, when you're there you want to leave it because everything sucks, once you're abroad you get sentimental and homesick. But you know once you get back you'll want to leave again. Damn country!

Dudess · 12-12-2009 11:34PM

With the amount of "Ireland is a fascist banana republic" threads, I'd have thought a massive amount of regulars here are emigrating.

Any key? · 12-12-2009 11:40PM

Just bumped into a girl I went to school with today.
She is emmegrating to New Zealand and engaged.....were only 22.....feel so old after talkin to her

She said her parents wouldn't let her emmigrate unless she was engaged

tman · 12-12-2009 11:43PM

googlefan wrote: »

Maybe you are a total idiot for only getting one interview!

I could have definitely phrased my post better, but there's really no call for that kind of comeback...
Main problem for me is that I set my standards too high since I already have a job. (no point jumping ship unless its really worth it)
The one job I did have an interview for would have been awesome!:(

Papad · 13-12-2009 12:29AM

skywards wrote: »

Wrong. I'm in the US at hte moment and unless you want to work at burger king your screwed. I happen to work in a somewhat specialized field and I'm barely keeping my job.

So you're saying that if you are not working in Burger King or in your particular 'specialized' field, then there's no hope for other people. That makes no sense. I'm in the States and there's plenty of work around. The States is a big place, isn't it?

My advice for anyone who wants to come here is to apply for the visa lottery that comes around every year. What have you got to lose?

CamperMan · 13-12-2009 12:33AM

staying put... I like it here!

Sea Sharp · 13-12-2009 01:06AM

I'm gonna see how 2010 goes. I just graduated and wasn't able to get funding for a research masters.
If I can get some sort of employment with OK money, I'll start saving up & paying off loans. If I can save enough, I'd like to go to Berlin or London.

How much money would you need to emigrate??

Duggy747 · 13-12-2009 01:11AM

HA! The government are going to have to do a lot better to get rid of me from this country!!

Honestly, though, as much as living abroad would be an experience I'd miss this country and the Irish humour too much.

I was born here and I plan to die here, hilariously!

rossie1977 · 13-12-2009 01:14AM

Papad wrote: »

So you're saying that if you are not working in Burger King or in your particular 'specialized' field, then there's no hope for other people. That makes no sense. I'm in the States and there's plenty of work around. The States is a big place, isn't it?

My advice for anyone who wants to come here is to apply for the visa lottery that comes around every year. What have you got to lose?

some states have been hit very bad, cali, nevada, florida, some are actually better now than before the recession e.g. texas

brianthebard · 13-12-2009 01:16AM

Will finish my phd and see what happens then.

Dudess wrote: »

With the amount of "Ireland is a fascist banana republic" threads, I'd have thought a massive amount of regulars here are emigrating.

They aren't annoyed by the state of the country, they're just pissed they aren't creaming it like some of the fascists! :pac:

Mars Bar · 13-12-2009 01:17AM

I would if I could but I can't.

skywards · 13-12-2009 01:28AM

Papad wrote: »

So you're saying that if you are not working in Burger King or in your particular 'specialized' field, then there's no hope for other people. That makes no sense. I'm in the States and there's plenty of work around. The States is a big place, isn't it?

My advice for anyone who wants to come here is to apply for the visa lottery that comes around every year. What have you got to lose?

No, I'm saying that the economy in the US is fcked too. Both of my parents have been out of work for over a year, my brother can't find a job, most of the people in my town are out of work, etc. The ONLY reason I still have my job is because I retrain race horses and work around the race track, and even though no one has a job in this state, people are still stupid enough to go bet on the race horses :pac:.

Whos emigrating then?

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