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Physio="low employment ops" so why's it so popular on the CAO?

  • 31-03-2010 04:44PM
    #1
    Freakin4Leavin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 48 ✭


    Read that Physio has gone up something crazy like 30pc on cao applications! Any idea why the enthusiasm when its supposed to be really hard to get a job after? Maybe people are hoping that things will have improved by the time they graduate...?


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  • #2
    Mardy Bum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    People like to rub people up, its as simple as that.


  • #3
    stainluss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 869 ✭✭✭stainluss


    Freakin4Leavin wrote: »
    Maybe people are hoping that things will have improved by the time they graduate...?

    Yup, coupled with the high wages if you did get a job...

    I cant really think of anything to justify 30pc though?
    :confused:
    Mardy Bum wrote: »
    People like to rub people up, its as simple as that.

    Best guess :P


  • #4
    Freakin4Leavin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 48 ✭Freakin4Leavin


    Yeah physio has increased the most suprisingly, as well as science and arts which is to be expected really.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mardy Bum viewpost.gif
    People like to rub people up, its as simple as that.

    Ha. I dunno now id say 70pc of the time its working with geriatrics so I'm thinking this isn't always the case :rolleyes:


  • #5
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,228 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I don't know much about it, which puts me on a par with LC students at the time they fill in the CAO forms. It sounds to me like a classic case of "I can't do Maths, and I've heard that Arts is hard work, so what else can I do?" :pac:

    In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.

    ― Wilhelm Reich



  • #6
    hidinginthebush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,675 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    People who do sports in school are usually encouraged to do physiotherapy so maybe they can be sports doctors, managers or open their own physio clinics. So everybody wants this big glamorous job treating the rich and famous and getting paid truckloads of money. The reality being that most physios work with rehabilitation of the sick.


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  • #7
    Fad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    bnt wrote: »
    I don't know much about it, which puts me on a par with LC students at the time they fill in the CAO forms. It sounds to me like a classic case of "I can't do Maths, and I've heard that Arts is hard work, so what else can I do?" :pac:

    Who in the history of UCD the world has ever said that......


  • #8
    dyl10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,355 ✭✭✭dyl10


    Fad wrote: »
    Who in the history of UCD the world has ever said that......

    Shush, first year...


  • #9
    deco1610
    Closed Accounts Posts: 67 ✭✭deco1610


    People who are academically weak, yet good at sports, would choose to pursue a career in sports. Since there is no module in UCD yet called "introduction to sports", these people decide that they'll go down the path of the most sports-like course available to them: Physiotherapy!



    Just a theory...


  • #10
    dyl10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,355 ✭✭✭dyl10


    Nah, physiotherapy is high points, therefore, it's probably not the academically weak people pushing it up.

    The answer is probably that it's just quite a desirable job in terms of work type and pay (should you manage to get a job, of course)


  • #11
    Michaelrsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 640 ✭✭✭Michaelrsh


    In science you'll be qualified to mix stuff, in physio you'll be qualified to rub stuff, in arts you'll be qualified to say stuff! That's the way I'm looking at stuff from now on.


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  • #12
    nairy hipples
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 264 ✭✭nairy hipples


    Im currently finishing up 2nd year of Phyiostherapy in UCD. Let me tell you it's not for the academically weak! The course was about 520 points in my year and with the CAO applications increasing so much the points are only going to rise! The coursework can also be extremely hard in my opinion!
    On another point I wouldn't say the course is suited solely towards sporty individuals. I went into it to go into the rehabilitation side of things as did a few others in my class but dont get me wrong there are a lot of sporty people in it!
    All in all it's a very enjoyable course.


  • #13
    dajaffa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭dajaffa


    Its nout to do with glamour or whatever. Demand dropped significantly as there was a lack of jobs going. Now there's no jobs going in anything really so its evened out and a little extra as you can get visas to lots of countries if you're a physio.


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