where to emigrate to ?

Evie90 · 14-03-2012 03:04PM #1

So i found out today that i will not be entitled to a grant for college next year, so I won't be able to go. I've been looking for a job for the last two years and have had no luck, I'm currently surviving on money that i earn for doing odd jobs for people.... cleaning, ironing, babysitting etc as I am not entitled to social welfare either so I often have no money at all for weeks. I have no ties here my parents have both sadly passed away, and my siblings all have their own families (I'm currently sleeping on my sisters couch but she has 3 kids so it's not a long term solution) If I sell everything I own that has any value I should have about €3000 to get myself a plane ticket and get set up which I know isn't a lot. So what I want to know is where would you go if you were in my situation? ( I'm 20 btw)

PseudoFamous · 14-03-2012 03:05PM

Japan because why the hell not.

14-03-2012 03:05PM

Courtown

who the fug · 14-03-2012 03:07PM

What do you want to do for a living

Duggy747 · 14-03-2012 03:09PM

The moon

Or England. At least they have different flavoured Walkers crisps there.

Micky Dolenz · 14-03-2012 03:10PM

I hear Cork is nice in the spring time.

Ellis Dee · 14-03-2012 03:11PM

London or somewhere else in Britain. Reasons: you won't need anything like all of your €3,000 to get there and support yourself until you have a job and a place to live. You can begin earning and hopefully saving some cash while you get used to being away from Ireland and your old friends and relatives, and it will give you time to gain work experience and at the same time look around and plan carefully where you want to move to next.:D

Good luck.:)

Evie90 · 14-03-2012 03:15PM

who the fug wrote: »

What do you want to do for a living

At this stage anything, but realistically with no collage education (for the foreseeable future anyway) bar/restaurant or retail are probably my only options.

munchkin_utd · 14-03-2012 03:21PM

Evie90 wrote: »

At this stage anything, but realistically with no collage education (for the foreseeable future anyway) bar/restaurant or retail are probably my only options.

pity.

Germany are shockin stuck for engineers at the mo.
The engineering association reckon in a press release today that theres 105,000 open posts for graduate engineers in germany at the moment
http://www.vdi.de/44033.0.html?&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=56975&cHash=f35251c19b0d141e17f9b97f549dccdf

And last month 87,000 posts went unfilled as there were no suitable applicants.

Elba101 · 14-03-2012 03:22PM

Go teach English in Asia - good job, good pay and amazing lifestyle!

Immaculate Pasta · 14-03-2012 03:26PM

Isle of Man :cool:

Duckworth_Luas · 14-03-2012 03:26PM

Western Australia! $250 a day laying bricks, no experience necessary!

Evie90 · 14-03-2012 03:28PM

munchkin_utd wrote: »

pity.

Germany are shockin stuck for engineers at the mo.
The engineering association reckon in a press release today that theres 105,000 open posts for graduate engineers in germany at the moment
http://www.vdi.de/44033.0.html?&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=56975&cHash=f35251c19b0d141e17f9b97f549dccdf

And last month 87,000 posts went unfilled as there were no suitable applicants.

It is a pity because I was hoping to go in to either IT or engineering and my German is fairly good as well. But I'm afraid it doesn't look like college is going to happen for a few years anyway.

Sergeant · 14-03-2012 03:29PM

Elba101 wrote: »

Go teach English in Asia - good job, good pay and amazing lifestyle!

This seems to be a popular option. If you have a degree then do a TEFL, and look for a job. They pay for the flight over and give you a free apartment (at least in Korea, where a family member works). Pay is good, and as mentioned, the lifestyle seems to be a good one.

Wattle · 14-03-2012 03:29PM

Sounds like the OP doesn't have a degree which would bar him from teaching in some Asian countries. You can still teach in some countries but expect the conditions to be very basic and the pay not that great either.

who the fug · 14-03-2012 03:30PM

Evie90 wrote: »

At this stage anything, but realistically with no collage education (for the foreseeable future anyway) bar/restaurant or retail are probably my only options.

What were you going to do at university before you found out, you could not get a grant

Evie90 · 14-03-2012 03:36PM

I was looking into doing something related to sustainable energy, either sustainable civil engineering, or smart sustainable energy.

Elba101 · 14-03-2012 03:44PM

Sergeant wrote: »

This seems to be a popular option. If you have a degree then do a TEFL, and look for a job. They pay for the flight over and give you a free apartment (at least in Korea, where a family member works). Pay is good, and as mentioned, the lifestyle seems to be a good one.

Yeah I'm loving it here!

OP I just saw that you are only 20. Assumed you were older because of your situation. I say sell up, do a TEFL or CELTA coure and go teach English in Europe. It'll be an amazing experience with security and something that'll always stand to you.

Best of luck!

Evie90 · 14-03-2012 03:44PM

Wattle wrote: »

Sounds like the OP doesn't have a degree which would bar him from teaching in some Asian countries. You can still teach in some countries but expect the conditions to be very basic and the pay not that great either.

Yeah I Googled 'Teach English in Asia' so I know that's out of the question. Also I'm a girl I probably should have mentioned that before.

Elba101 · 14-03-2012 03:47PM

Evie90 wrote: »

Yeah I Googled 'Teach English in Asia' so I know that's out of the question. Also I'm a girl I probably should have mentioned that before.

You can teach in some European countries without a degree. Look into it - it's an option!

Wattle · 14-03-2012 03:50PM

Elba101 wrote: »

You can teach in some European countries without a degree. Look into it - it's an option!

True. The Czech Republic for one. Prague is a beautiful city.

Evie90 · 14-03-2012 03:50PM

Elba101 wrote: »

Yeah I'm loving it here!

OP I just saw that you are only 20. Assumed you were older because of your situation. I say sell up, do a TEFL or CELTA coure and go teach English in Europe. It'll be an amazing experience with security and something that'll always stand to you.

Best of luck!

That does seem to be a good idea, but would I not need a degree ?

Opps you answered that above didn't see it [facepalm]

Evie90 · 14-03-2012 03:53PM

Elba101 wrote: »

You can teach in some European countries without a degree. Look into it - it's an option!

I will

thanks for the suggestion.

LordSutch · 14-03-2012 03:53PM

England - Canada - USA - Australia - New Zealand.

Nothingbetter2d · 14-03-2012 03:58PM

Evie90 wrote: »

So i found out today that i will not be entitled to a grant for college next year, so I won't be able to go. I've been looking for a job for the last two years and have had no luck, I'm currently surviving on money that i earn for doing odd jobs for people.... cleaning, ironing, babysitting etc as I am not entitled to social welfare either so I often have no money at all for weeks. I have no ties here my parents have both sadly passed away, and my siblings all have their own families (I'm currently sleeping on my sisters couch but she has 3 kids so it's not a long term solution) If I sell everything I own that has any value I should have about €3000 to get myself a plane ticket and get set up which I know isn't a lot. So what I want to know is where would you go if you were in my situation? ( I'm 20 btw)

go on the game then you can pay for your education

jester77 · 14-03-2012 03:58PM

LordSutch wrote: »

England - Canada - USA - Australia - New Zealand.

Apart from England, the rest are too far away and would leave very little left to survive on while trying to get setup. Plus they also require visa's. Best sticking to EU countries, can get there cheap & no issues with visa's.

You say that you have some German. Lots of jobs around Germany at the moment, so that would be a good option plus the language is easy to pick up.

FoxT · 14-03-2012 03:58PM

Evie90 wrote: »

It is a pity because I was hoping to go in to either IT or engineering and my German is fairly good as well. But I'm afraid it doesn't look like college is going to happen for a few years anyway.

Do any German companies take on apprentice engineers? I seem to recall that Germany had something like this going on, in the past at least. That may be worth exploring.

Or if you could get a place as a trainee technician, say, with a german company & work your way up from there?

Again - reasonably close to home, you have the language, your eu3k wont get burnt up on travel etc.

Another option - I believe Apple are always on the lookout for multilingual people to wokr in their centre here in Cork....dont know what qualifications they are looking for, though.

Best of Luck.

twinytwo · 14-03-2012 03:59PM

munchkin_utd wrote: »

pity.

Germany are shockin stuck for engineers at the mo.
The engineering association reckon in a press release today that theres 105,000 open posts for graduate engineers in germany at the moment
http://www.vdi.de/44033.0.html?&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=56975&cHash=f35251c19b0d141e17f9b97f549dccdf

And last month 87,000 posts went unfilled as there were no suitable applicants.

i dunno about you i made the mistake of studying french for the lc

shanered · 14-03-2012 04:18PM

Most of my friends have emigrated at this stage (we are all 23-26yrs).
Most of them have went to Austrailia, but they did this together mostly and had people they knew, another on the other hand jumped on the plane to Canada, no qualifications, no links, knew nobody, just got there with money for deposit and one months rent and got a job selling bagels in Vancouver, he is happy out in his situation, he just checked the ads for who he was moving in with and found some people who don't mind a smoker and moved in with three other unknown canadian young professionals.
I reckon Canada would be a good bet is the jist of what I'm trying to say I think...
Good luck one way or the other!

donegal_road · 14-03-2012 04:29PM

Evie90 wrote: »

I was looking into doing something related to sustainable energy, either sustainable civil engineering, or smart sustainable energy.

MIT in Boston are starting to offer free online degrees... I think it may not be just as straight forward as that all the same, but might be worth looking into

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

BraziliaNZ · 14-03-2012 04:30PM

shanered wrote: »

Most of my friends have emigrated at this stage (we are all 23-26yrs).
Most of them have went to Austrailia, but they did this together mostly and had people they knew, another on the other hand jumped on the plane to Canada, no qualifications, no links, knew nobody, just got there with money for deposit and one months rent and got a job selling bagels in Vancouver, he is happy out in his situation, he just checked the ads for who he was moving in with and found some people who don't mind a smoker and moved in with three other unknown canadian young professionals.
I reckon Canada would be a good bet is the jist of what I'm trying to say I think...
Good luck one way or the other!

Yeah, most of your mates will be back in a year's time with some drunken stories without a penny in their pocket as they're on working holiday visas. This mass emigration thing is a load of hype over nothing.

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