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Official bitch about daily life in UL

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  • #3152
    Jester252
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭Jester252


    KealanOCarroll wrote: »

    Co-op office didn't offer you anything ?
    Two interviews
    One that was looking of Bussiness students.
    One that started in June.


  • #3153
    scruffystack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭scruffystack


    Co-op is dacent. Best thing about UL.


  • #3154
    Fishooks12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,318 ✭✭✭Fishooks12


    scruffystack wrote: »
    Co-op is dacent. Best thing about UL.

    It's certainly not decent when you're doing journalism and are forced to work for free for 6 months


  • #3155
    mud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭mud


    Fishooks12 wrote: »
    It's certainly not decent when you're doing journalism and are forced to work for free for 6 months

    Not only work for free, also having to pay rent/petrol/food my co-op sent me spiralling into debt.


  • #3156
    SarahBeep!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,965 ✭✭✭SarahBeep!


    Try teaching practice. Practically abuse.


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  • #3157
    mud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭mud


    Something that is free is never appreciated. Co-op should be a choice, I know it's possible to get out of it but it takes a lot of red tape and lies to do so.

    Please don't even get me started on the co-op office. Most unhelpful.


  • #3158
    garv123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,577 ✭✭✭garv123


    Is unpaid co-op not costing the same as a college semester? :confused:

    You still need to pay for rent, food etc in college and you'd have less nights out when you have to be up for work


  • #3159
    mud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭mud


    Nope, my co-op was further away, took up more of my time (priceless :p) and I was expected to eat out a few days a week with everyone else. Also had to buy clothes that weren't my usual baggy jeans and DCs.


  • #3160
    J_E
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    Getting tossed around in circles by SAA, really getting tiresome :(


  • #3161
    scruffystack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭scruffystack


    I suppose you can't get paid doing a Mickey Mouse course really...


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  • #3162
    SarahBeep!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,965 ✭✭✭SarahBeep!


    scruffystack wrote: »
    I suppose you can't get paid doing a Mickey Mouse course really...

    And what course would that be??


  • #3163
    toodleytoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 477 ✭✭toodleytoo


    scruffystack wrote: »
    I suppose you can't get paid doing a Mickey Mouse course really...

    Journalism isn't a mickey mouse course if that's what you're referring to.


  • #3164
    Daniel S
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,533 ✭✭✭Daniel S


    toodleytoo wrote: »
    scruffystack wrote: »
    I suppose you can't get paid doing a Mickey Mouse course really...

    Journalism isn't a mickey mouse course if that's what you're referring to.
    I think what he/she meant to say was journalists aren't in high demand at the moment.


  • #3165
    Fishooks12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,318 ✭✭✭Fishooks12


    scruffystack wrote: »
    I suppose you can't get paid doing a Mickey Mouse course really...

    Yes Mickey Mouse course indeed. Good few mice who graduated last year working in places like The Irish Times, The Examiner, Spin and The Farmers Journal to name but a few.

    I'd be a happy mouse if I'm in that position when I finish next year.

    What do you do btw, seeing as you have such an superiority complex about your own choice of third level course?


  • #3166
    wnolan1992
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    FFS...

    attachment.php?attachmentid=128200&d=1344184225


  • #3167
    Jester252
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭Jester252


    God that must be the most overused image on this fourm.


  • #3168
    OhMSGlive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭OhMSGlive


    Jester252 wrote: »
    God that must be the most overused image on this fourm.

    This. Times a million.


  • #3169
    MiamiMortimer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 126 ✭✭MiamiMortimer


    YFlyer wrote: »
    Went for a run last night and had to run out on the road to pass out all the Italians. One of them decided to race me 50 yards. He was like a young version of Capello :D They were all screaming crazy for him.

    Have to do that every morning, trying to get to work from Thomond. It sucks if I'm late, because they invariably delay me by a few minutes. Always bunched in groups, talking loudly, unwilling to move over or let anyone else use the path...generally I end up having to walk through the squidgy grass in my work shoes to pass them - argh!

    It's the cyclists coming from the opposite end of the bridge that I feel sorry for most, though. They're definitely fighting a losing battle.


  • #3170
    wnolan1992
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    OhMSGlive wrote: »
    This. Times a million.

    And yet it's still as relevant as ever...


  • #3171
    freyners
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,298 ✭✭✭freyners


    spike-albums-misc-picture2346-do-not-feed-trolls.jpg

    how about we use this from now on


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  • #3172
    scruffystack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭scruffystack


    Believe me, my course is nothing special but when the college provides you with invaluable working experience over 6-8 months don't bash them if you don't get paid. That's down to the company you work for, not the college.

    Luckily I am getting paid on co-op.


  • #3173
    Fishooks12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,318 ✭✭✭Fishooks12


    scruffystack wrote: »
    Believe me, my course is nothing special but when the college provides you with invaluable working experience over 6-8 months don't bash them if you don't get paid. That's down to the company you work for, not the college.

    Luckily I am getting paid on co-op.

    College didn't provide me with anything. In fact they were useless in finding suitable placement for the majority of my class

    No one on co-op from my class got paid. Therefor it should be optional for people who cannot afford to give up there part time job to do it


  • #3174
    highlydebased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    Fishooks12 wrote: »
    College didn't provide me with anything. In fact they were useless in finding suitable placement for the majority of my class

    No one on co-op from my class got paid. Therefor it should be optional for people who cannot afford to give up there part time job to do it

    If you're lucky enough to have a part time job...!


  • #3175
    Skyrim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 516 ✭✭✭Skyrim


    Hey all. Anybody know if o'mahony's sell the acetate cover you're meant to put your report into? Thanks.


  • #3176
    mud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭mud


    Skyrim wrote: »
    Hey all. Anybody know if o'mahony's sell the acetate cover you're meant to put your report into? Thanks.

    Your co-op report? The print place will do it for a 5er.


  • #3177
    freyners
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,298 ✭✭✭freyners


    mud wrote: »
    Your co-op report? The print place will do it for a 5er.
    First i heard of a cover:eek:


  • #3178
    mud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭mud


    freyners wrote: »
    First i heard of a cover:eek:

    http://www3.ul.ie/coop/coop/faculty/reportguidelines.shtml


  • #3179
    highlydebased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    I think I paid 3 or 4 euro in the print room to have my co-op report done in that acetate thing


  • #3180
    Jester252
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭Jester252


    ya college work


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  • #3181
    scruffystack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭scruffystack


    Fishooks12 wrote: »
    College didn't provide me with anything. In fact they were useless in finding suitable placement for the majority of my class

    No one on co-op from my class got paid. Therefor it should be optional for people who cannot afford to give up there part time job to do it

    You are not forced to do it. If you don't get co-op you have a semester in the college doing like 2 or 3 modules or something like that. There's no gun to your head about co-op like...


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