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Irelands most difficult job

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    #32
    hobochris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,163 ✭✭✭hobochris


    Really this is just a list of occupations where you are afforded the time/chance to listen to the radio all day.

    otherwise I'm pretty sure neurosurgeon would be on that list.


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    #33
    Gary4279
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 419 ✭✭Gary4279


    RETAIL


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    #34
    CluelessGirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 181 ✭✭CluelessGirl


    Being a kept man/women!

    Trying to fill the days with golf lessons, manicures etc.........

    Its tough! :D


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    #35
    padma
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    i'd say those guys fundraising would be up on that list.


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    #36
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    bigneacy wrote: »
    thats ridiculous... sitting on yer backside, getting paid over the odds, taking phonecalls and all with the ability to hang up whenever you don't like where the call is going.

    I used to work as a CSA for 2 and a half years for a large gambling company, and i moved on from it. Easiest job I ever had. Without a shadow of a doubt in my mind.
    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056040662


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    #37
    Sykk
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    A deep sea chicken courier construction emergency nurse farmer.


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    #38
    SugarHigh
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    PaulieC wrote: »
    People assume Doctors are more important and work harder - they don't clean up the shít, vomit, deal with families after being given bad news, wash dead bodies before they're moved to the morgue etc. Doctor do tough work and have alot of it to do but Nurses are so underappreciated for the tough job they do it's sick!
    LMFAO Nurses are not unappreciated . All I ever hear about nurses is how unappreciated they are.


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    #39
    D'Agger
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    padma wrote: »
    i'd say those guys fundraising would be up on that list.

    I'd say something if they were doing volunteer work - I'd actually treat them with respect but the way some of them force themselves upon you going about your daily business is annoying!! Also - you get past one on the street there's another 5yards away - space the fúck out people!


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    #40
    SugarHigh
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    Gary4279 wrote: »
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    That's a sh1t job not a difficult job.


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    #41
    D'Agger
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    SugarHigh wrote: »
    LMFAO Nurses are not unappreciated . All I ever hear about nurses is how unappreciated they are.

    The missus is on placement at the moment she's studying nursing - I'm fairly up to speed on how she and other nurses are getting treated by what she's told me - and some of the jobs she's doing at the moment (unpaid) is fairly rotten


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    #42
    Biggins
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    I would have thought honestly that lately it would have just have been "Someone working in the bank industry".


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    #43
    skipz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 671 ✭✭✭skipz


    demakinz wrote: »
    1. Deep Sea Fishing

    Thats ray darcy's listeners opinion what do you guys think is the most difficult job?
    .

    That just indicates that all darcy's listeners watch to much ****e yank t.v.
    No way that is most difficult job in Ireland, dangerous at times.
    Its a hard job and sometimes you dont get fcuk all pay but it aint as difficult as a lot of jobs.
    You ask most skippers/crew what would be more difficult, wipen some old lads arse clean in a old folks home every day or tailing prawns for 8 hours?
    Dont have to ask the answer to that one.
    Get a grip darcy, difficult to you because you couldnt feckn work anyway!
    They would'nt be all saying that if the were working the sea's and Ireland was'nt part of the E.U which is killing the fishing industry in this country, which is still employing people by the way!!!!


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    #44
    SugarHigh
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    PaulieC wrote: »
    The missus is on placement at the moment she's studying nursing - I'm fairly up to speed on how she and other nurses are getting treated by what she's told me - and some of the jobs she's doing at the moment (unpaid) is fairly rotten
    So your biased then. Doctors are far more important than nurses but don't get half as much appreciation. I think it's because people deal with nurses more and the nurse has more time to talk to them so they build up a bond with them. The relationship with Doctors is more professional.


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    #45
    jackiebaron
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    I refuse to use that pathetic American "Stay at home MOM" reference or the other equally bullsh!t "Homemaker"...such bollocks.
    HOUSEWIFE.
    Anyway how is this job so fücking hard? OK it's a pain in the bollocks if she's got to take care of, say, 3 sprogs aged 2, 1, and a couple of months. But if they're of school age then the little **** are gone out of the house from 8:30 to 3:00. She gets them up, they dress themselves. She puts kettle on, squeezes the oranges, pours the cornflakes, butters the toast., etc. They eat, get their coats and bags and fück off. After that she can crash until 10:00 am. Then throw in the laundry and head up to the shops to get supplies for dinner and tea.
    Come back home. Do the dusting and hoovering. Have coffee. Check the bills and make sure nothing's outstanding. Make some phone calls. Put laundry in dryer or hang on line or radiator. Wait for kids to return. Feed them, order them to their rooms to do homework. Call husband, tell him to pick up a bottle of plonk on the way home.
    What so fücking gruelling about this job that it would be so much harder than a security guard in Abrekebabra or worse the poor cünt behind the counter? What about vegetable picker? Or parking attendant/clamper :eek:

    housewife me bollocks.


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    #46
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    SugarHigh wrote: »
    So your biased then. Doctors are far more important than nurses but don't get half as much appreciation. I think it's because people deal with nurses more and the nurse has more time to talk to them so they build up a bond with them. The relationship with Doctors is more professional.
    But the nurses have to put up with more **** than Doctors. That's what makes their jobs more difficult.


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    #47
    Wompa1
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    10. Farmer
    9. Construction Worker
    8. Manager in any shape or form
    7. The Emergency Services
    6. ESB Linesman
    5. A & E Nurse
    4. Block Layer
    3. Air Traffic Controller
    2. Customer Service Agent

    1. Deep Sea Fishing

    Just in my personal opinion. I gave Farmer a token nod because it's a year round job but personally although I haven't done much farm work in my life I would find being my own boss rewarding and could see upsides to it.

    I think Air Traffic Controller in a busy airport would be the worst but I put it behind the first 2 because it's probably not so tough in Ireland...


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    #48
    KilOit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,083 ✭✭✭KilOit


    Stay at home moms and couriers my arse, atleast we know who listens to that show it's the stay at home moms with their whiny courier husbands.


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    #49
    Jarren
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    they are called (nurses) frontline staff for something


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    #50
    skipz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 671 ✭✭✭skipz


    Wompa1 wrote: »
    4. Block Layer

    You can knock that out of your list, we dont work anymore:rolleyes:


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    #51
    demakinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭demakinz


    What about the community welfare officer who gives out money to people not receiving social welfare.

    In Edenderry they had to put up a perspex screen because she was assaulted a few times.


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    #52
    AnnyHallsal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,118 ✭✭✭AnnyHallsal


    I'd say being a Community Welfare Office is no great laugh. Was waiting outside the other day listening to some man in his fifties bawl the head off a woman because she didn't want to give him 70 euro for an ESB bill. I was literally trembling in the waiting room, but I suppose they get used to it pretty quickly.


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    #53
    SugarHigh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,265 ✭✭✭SugarHigh


    jackiebaron wrote: »
    I refuse to use that pathetic American "Stay at home MOM" reference or the other equally bullsh!t "Homemaker"...such bollocks.
    HOUSEWIFE.
    Anyway how is this job so fücking hard? OK it's a pain in the bollocks if she's got to take care of, say, 3 sprogs aged 2, 1, and a couple of months. But if they're of school age then the little **** are gone out of the house from 8:30 to 3:00. She gets them up, they dress themselves. She puts kettle on, squeezes the oranges, pours the cornflakes, butters the toast., etc. They eat, get their coats and bags and fück off. After that she can crash until 10:00 am. Then throw in the laundry and head up to the shops to get supplies for dinner and tea.
    Come back home. Do the dusting and hoovering. Have coffee. Check the bills and make sure nothing's outstanding. Make some phone calls. Put laundry in dryer or hang on line or radiator. Wait for kids to return. Feed them, order them to their rooms to do homework. Call husband, tell him to pick up a bottle of plonk on the way home.
    What so fücking gruelling about this job that it would be so much harder than a security guard in Abrekebabra or worse the poor cünt behind the counter? What about vegetable picker? Or parking attendant/clamper :eek:

    housewife me bollocks.
    Not to mention most people will do most of that for themselves anyway while also doing their job.


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    #54
    clived2
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    **Vai** wrote: »
    Courier? WTF??

    You dont realise the shit they have to put up with,

    Consumers with unreasonable demands and patrionising attiudes,
    thinking that you are being unreasonable when in fact it is them
    "Thanks for doing your required job now can you put these neatly stacked in my store, also refill the machines etc,"

    Boss with no spines who adhere to the laws of fecal gravity

    Ask that paper man, star... what is face about it, but he could be too busy at a meeting while looking out the window posting on boards


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    #55
    AnnyHallsal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,118 ✭✭✭AnnyHallsal


    demakinz wrote: »
    What about the community welfare officer who gives out money to people not receiving social welfare.

    In Edenderry they had to put up a perspex screen because she was assaulted a few times.

    Snap, demakinz .. great minds an' that ;)


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    #56
    SugarHigh
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    humanji wrote: »
    But the nurses have to put up with more **** than Doctors. That's what makes their jobs more difficult.
    No that makes their job more sh1t not more difficult.


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    #57
    up for anything
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    jackiebaron wrote: »

    housewife me bollocks.

    Yes please. I'd love your bollocks to put through a meat grinder just before I crash out.

    You have no idea at all.

    My number one would have to be working mother. The rest of them have it easy.


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    #58
    AnnyHallsal
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    up for anything wrote: »

    My number one would have to be working mother. The rest of them have it easy.

    It depends on how much the partner contributes, the means the household has at its disposal, and the flexibility of the woman's job.


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    #59
    up for anything
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    AnnyHallsal wrote: »
    It depends on how much the partner contributes, the means the household has at its disposal, and the flexibility of the woman's job.

    I still think it is the hardest. It would be very rare to come across women who have all those three things in their favour or even two of them.


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    #60
    AnnyHallsal
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    up for anything wrote: »
    I still think it is the hardest. It would be very rare to come across women who have all those three things in their favour or even two of them.

    I don't doubt it. When I do happen to be working I wonder how I'd manage with dependants. A lot of women still, voluntarily or otherwise, end up carrying the brunt of the domestic burden.


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    #61
    demakinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭demakinz


    This got to be one of the hardest in the world



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTu0kZprj_4


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