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How long have you been employed-What degree do you have(if any)

  • 08-11-2012 3:24am
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    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭


    Always wondered about the amount unemployed on the dole(including myself but gone back to do my masters with springboard). Just wondering what degrees/courses people have(if any) and how long ye have been on the dole just to see how truly fu**ed this country is with job prospects.


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  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,504 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    I graduated from the school of hard knocks


  • Registered Users Posts: 202 ✭✭Papa_Bear


    Beer. now there's a temporary solution.


    *smashes open piggy bank*

    Not even enough for one lousy beer.

    Wait a minute better make sure.

    *checks*

    Not even close


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Since 18, no degree, didn't pay any attention in college nor did I really like the field. I got lucky with a job and worked my way up and now have more than enough experience in my particular field that I don't need a degree.

    Having said that the biggest pain in the hole is not potential employment but not being able to move to other countries as easily.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 186 ✭✭Jmccoy1


    I've a Dip. in HR, a Cert. in H&S and I've been working since 1998 with approx. 7 months of unemployment. My current job might not be my favourite, but it does keep the roof over my head, keeps me fed, equipped and entertained. In short, I'm lucky and grateful.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭deisedave


    Papa_Bear wrote: »
    Beer. now there's a temporary solution.


    *smashes open piggy bank*

    Not even enough for one lousy beer.

    Wait a minute better make sure.

    *checks*

    Not even close
    It was funny at the start when people referenced homer but now its just annoying.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 202 ✭✭Papa_Bear


    Oh Im sorry I didn't realise this was a serious discussion(no jokes allowed).:(

    Well lets see here. I've been unemployed for a grand total of 13 years :confused: and still looking 'cause there's nothing else in this life to do.

    Thinking of going back to college for the 3rd time next year.


    Is that better?





    I thought a little humour would be better than a moan:pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    Unemployed about a year :o went back to college in September so here's hoping there's something after that!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭trodsky


    areyawell wrote: »
    Always wondered about the amount unemployed on the dole(including myself but gone back to do my masters with springboard). Just wondering what degrees/courses people have(if any) and how long ye have been on the dole just to see how truly fu**ed this country is with job prospects.

    So because you have completed a masters this entitles you to a job?

    Because you can't get a job the country is f:ucked?

    Get real


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭areyawell


    trodsky wrote: »
    So because you have completed a masters this entitles you to a job?

    Because you can't get a job the country is f:ucked?

    Get real

    No I'm doing the masters because I cant get a job


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    I have a masters and I have been working since I was thirteen.

    The two are absolutely and completely unrelated.


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  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Commerce degree.. Got 25 months employment out of it and now never want to use it again. Been teaching english for 18 months and way prefer it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    I had lots of masters, But that was back in the day before they were renamed teachers :-)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    Papa_Bear wrote: »
    Oh Im sorry I didn't realise this was a serious discussion(no jokes allowed).:(

    Well lets see here. I've been unemployed for a grand total of 13 years :confused: and still looking 'cause there's nothing else in this life to do.

    Thinking of going back to college for the 3rd time next year.


    Is that better?





    I thought a little humour would be better than a moan:pac:


    Sorry....

    You have been unemployed for THIRTEEN years?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    trodsky wrote: »
    So because you have completed a masters this entitles you to a job?
    The Op does not seem to be saying that at all.
    Because you can't get a job the country is f:ucked?
    No, its because the country is fucked, people cant get jobs.
    Get real
    Realising that gaining qualifications will possibly improve job opportunities is doing just that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,278 ✭✭✭x43r0


    Degree and a masters

    Working a "Grown-up" job with 18months but otherwise working since I was 16


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭Scanlas The 2nd


    Papa_Bear wrote: »
    Oh Im sorry I didn't realise this was a serious discussion(no jokes allowed).:(

    Well lets see here. I've been unemployed for a grand total of 13 years :confused: and still looking 'cause there's nothing else in this life to do.

    Thinking of going back to college for the 3rd time next year.


    Is that better?





    I thought a little humour would be better than a moan:pac:

    Humour is allowed, but bad humour frowned upon


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭UCDVet


    I can't fault anyone for availing of additional education while collecting the dole....but, at the same time, I really feel for the people who are working low paying, unrewarding jobs.

    I mean, long term, if I'm unemployed and collecting the dole and using that to allow me to attend school, learn new skills, go to uni full-time and then in 2-3 years be in a situation where I'm some sort of high paid engineer....that's great - for me. But is it fair?

    What about all the people who were working their low-paying, dead-end job? They can't go to school because they're too busy working and paying taxes. And in three years, they'll just be three years older. Still working a dead-end job for low pay.

    To be honest; I'd love nothing more than to get a Masters degree while collecting the dole. I mean, I'd do it starting today if I could.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭UCDVet


    Humour is allowed, but bad humour frowned upon

    If you took away the bad humour - there wouldn't be much left in After Hours.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    No college education,I could not wait to get out of the classroom into the real world worked summer jobs since i was 13 and full time since 18

    Running my own business now


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭sink


    BSc in Computer Science and BA in Management Information Systems. Been in my current job for almost 4 years. Not paid very well but I do ok.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭saiint


    no degree
    been working 9months
    occupation : waiting in line every 4 weeks for an hour
    400 quid an hour :D
    going college in september though


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,390 ✭✭✭The Big Red Button


    I studied Business Studies in an IT. Got my degree in 2009. I've never really been unemployed, before or since.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,105 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Employed 6 weeks nearly, don't give up.


  • Registered Users Posts: 17 TheGez


    Got my degree in journalism 2 weeks ago and also have an IT diploma. I have spent 2 weeks on the dole couldn't handle it. If people are willing to work there is work I got a job not related to anything I went to College for and I don't enjoy it one bit, but it puts the drink in my belly and the College life of living on 50 quid a week thought me how to live on a budget so I am living like a king at the moment in a minimum wage job haha


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭omahaid


    Degree in Comp Sci, working since I left secondary school but only in software since I left college (5 1/2 years ago).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Local-womanizer


    Have no degree, and was working 2 jobs for the last 3 years. Have left them now before I start another job in 3 weeks.

    Definitely found it easier to get a job while in a job.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,520 ✭✭✭allibastor


    Papa_Bear wrote: »
    Oh Im sorry I didn't realise this was a serious discussion(no jokes allowed).:(

    Well lets see here. I've been unemployed for a grand total of 13 years :confused: and still looking 'cause there's nothing else in this life to do.

    Thinking of going back to college for the 3rd time next year.


    Is that better?





    I thought a little humour would be better than a moan:pac:


    How did you manage to iss the celtic tiger, when any mupper with a pair of boots could have gotten a job on site at least


  • Registered Users Posts: 102 ✭✭Skyflyer1234


    Never Finished School (only Junior Cert).

    Last Year Done some ****ty FAS Course while being unemployed, wasn't able to be on the dole cause parents earned too much apparently???
    Earlier this year realised that since Im german and speak it fluently I may aswell get a job in IT/Call Centre - Now loving life, been working 7 months inside HP, have enough to enjoy life and got my own apartment etc... couldn't ask for more.

    Don't see why people always say how important school/college is when most my friends (some them got fluent 2nd language) have a degree and still can't get a job, if you want something bad enough you'll get it eventually and if not look for something else..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    I am well educated and have never been unemployed, thank God. I deliberately chose an area with plenty of long term opportunity though (and thankfully that is how it turned out).


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,223 ✭✭✭Macca07


    BSc in Software Development, working with 3 years and 1 month.
    Was unemployed when I finished college for 4-5 months.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,351 ✭✭✭✭SteelyDanJalapeno


    Degree in Electronic Engineering, working in my 1st job with 6 months now, absolutely love it and I'm so grateful to have it.

    Had 2 job offers the day after my final exam while getting very average exam results both offers were very good, one of them is my current job.

    Believe me there is sh*tloads of jobs in the technology sector.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,197 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Skipped the LC and joined the army at 17. Stayed there for 26 years. I must have 2 degrees now, because the wife gives me the third degree every night.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,101 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    Since 18, no degree, didn't pay any attention in college nor did I really like the field. I got lucky with a job and worked my way up and now have more than enough experience in my particular field that I don't need a degree.

    Having said that the biggest pain in the hole is not potential employment but not being able to move to other countries as easily.

    I would not be so sure somethimes if the job advert says degree needed it will not matter how long you have been working. Especially if they use one of those word searchers to screen out CV's


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,822 ✭✭✭stimpson


    I got my first job when I was 9. Worked at a sheet metal factory. In two weeks, I was running the floor. Child labor laws are ruining this country.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,101 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    I have a degree in manufacturing technology and a graduate diploma in computer aided design and computers.

    I have been working since summer 06 in the Revenue. (only job going so went for it


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    In my current job 6 months, that was after been made redundant 2 years earlier. For them two years spent the first year searching for work/education, spent the second year doing part time and on full time course.

    Other than them two years have spent most of my adult life (16 years) working or in full time education, bar one short period of 6 months after leaving a job that I ended up hating to the extent I was sick with the stress.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,754 ✭✭✭Odysseus


    Degree and Master's being in my current job since 96.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,034 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    trodsky wrote: »
    So because you have completed a masters this entitles you to a job?

    Because you can't get a job the country is f:ucked?

    Get real

    Well, you didn't quite understand what the OP was saying, so I'm afraid an Irish college would only be able to award you a 2:1 in comprehension.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,708 ✭✭✭curlzy


    Working in admin, never been unemployed, got my first job at 16 and been working for 14 years. Have a degree in photography, never wanted to be a photographer but love photography, so did the degree just for me : )


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 353 ✭✭RADIUS


    Worked 18 - 25 with the odd couple of months here and there between jobs. I never went to uni having walked straight from the leaving cert into the Celtic tiger economy where jobs were in abundance. All fun and games until the economy took a nosedive and I realized that I had no qualifications.

    Spent the last 2 years in a vocational college and now looking for a job with IT certs and Fetac.

    Still doing IT certs desperately trying to get into a bottom rung of the ladder 1st line helpdesk job but all I can see are senior roles/experienced roles/Multilingual roles advertised.

    I'll just keep studying and applying and hopefully one day....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 344 ✭✭veXual


    BSc in Computer Systems Management and BSc in Information Technology Management.

    I got my current job in a multi-national I.T. company 3 days after I finished college and have been here 2.5 years. I'm extremely fortunate and grateful for what I have.

    Luck was probably the biggest factor tbh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,476 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    Degree in computer science. Got a full time job two weeks after I graduated and have worked ever since.

    Currently not actually in an IT role but making daycent money and getting along with things.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    Turning 30 in a few months. Got a BSc in Software Development 6 1/2 years ago and have been working in small Irish software company since then.

    Have been employed since I was 16, prior to the full time job, I had a part time job for about 5 years through college, and another one or two towards the end of school.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    Degree in Media and Communications, been working for 16 years in various industries and my degree has been worthless for all of them except my stint as a journalist. Been in my current role for four years, in a field that would never have been my first choice, but one that I seem to have a natural aptitude for.

    Never really been on the dole.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,791 ✭✭✭ash23


    Been employed since I was 16 with a few gaps here and there - time off after having a child, a gap of a few months when I moved but always unemployed by choice luckily enough.

    I had nothing but a leaving cert initially, dropped out of college and took some menial retail/waitressing jobs. Somehow managed to get into a financial sector role and min wage and stayed in the industry, getting qualifications and pay increases as I went. In this sector now for the last 7 years and have a diploma and am considering continuing on to a degree via work (who support further education)

    I was just pure jammy to fall into the industry that I did which (touch wood) hasn't been affected by the recession.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    An MA and an MPhil in the areas of environmental policy and flood management.

    Finished college 3 years ago, right when the sh!t hit the fan, and havent got long term employment but did get some short contracts since to bulk up the CV. Have a part time 'menial' job that pays the bills and the barman!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Been working in all sorts of jobs since I was 14 from newsagents, gardener, radio, retail, tiling, to IT techie & trainer. Didn't do great in the LC because I had no interest in it by the end of school, wasn't going repeating anyways that was for sure.

    Have a degree in systems & networks and certs in radio & sound engineering, was on the dole for a year and a bit which was horrible because it was the longest I've been out of work but I at least got to build up on loads of IT certs through FAS. I had worked in a good few IT jobs before hand but was always laid off from downturns in business so this was my last crack at it, I was fed up of all the bad luck I was having. If I had too much trouble finding / keeping a job from redundancies I was just going to quit and change career.

    During me time on the dole I took on a 9 month unpaid contract (this was before the internship scheme started) with a disability crowd so myself and another guy covered 60+ special needs schools and respite centres around the county. That opened a lot of doors for me and had companies ringing me up out of the blue looking to take me on.

    Back in the role of IT techie now, working solo again which I love because I've no annoying workmates to deal with (or vice versa :pac:). Pay isn't mighty but I love this kind of work so as long as I'm chirpy I'll be grand.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,775 ✭✭✭Death and Taxes


    Working most of my life, short periods of unemployment, periods of working abroad.
    Have a B.A. In Sociology and Social Policy, gained as a mature student.
    Myself and the AH started our own business when she lost her job for the third time in two years at the start of the recession.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 236 ✭✭jinxremoving


    I have a degree and a masters. I have a job in civil service but I hate it with a passion. I was unemployed for a while in between jobs and tbh my mental health was better when I was unemployed. Not what I want to do with my life at all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,200 ✭✭✭muppetkiller


    Degree in Applied Physics and Computing. Graduated in 1999 and have been working in software development since then. Never out of work since I was 15.


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