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  • #602
    azure
    Closed Accounts Posts: 81 ✭✭azure


    Can you take one or two days of during recruit training to attend something really important eg; Job interview?


  • #603
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,504 ✭✭✭tac foley


    This 'job interview' is more important than the recruit training that you are undertaking for a career in the Naval Service?

    Perhaps you ought to reconsider your priorities.

    tac


  • #604
    azure
    Closed Accounts Posts: 81 ✭✭azure


    tac foley wrote: »
    This 'job interview' is more important than the recruit training that you are undertaking for a career in the Naval Service?

    Perhaps you ought to reconsider your priorities.


    tac
    Its up to me what I want to do with my future. I only used a job interview as an example.
    I'm looking for someone to answer the question and not be a dick ;)


  • #605
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,504 ✭✭✭tac foley


    Taking time out of your recruit training for a job interview will likely get your sorry ass kicked off the recruit training course.

    Insulting me gets you no banana.

    Try it and see how 'understanding' your recruit trainers really are.

    tac


  • #606
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,504 ✭✭✭tac foley


    I wasn't in the PDF, but I was in the British Army for 33 years. Full-time, no reserve.

    Recruit training staff are not well-known for having a sense of humour.

    tac


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  • #607
    mikeym
    Registered Users Posts: 3,984 ✭✭✭mikeym


    azure wrote: »
    Can you take one or two days of during recruit training to attend something really important eg; Job interview?

    No unless its a funeral.


  • #608
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,213 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    A couple of posts have been reported, so I've had a look at this thread today, including the deleted posts.

    Although I have no idea how this escalated and became hostile, I think overall the points have been made and sanction is not warranted.


  • #609
    discus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭discus


    azure wrote: »
    Its up to me what I want to do with my future. I only used a job interview as an example.
    I'm looking for someone to answer the question and not be a dick ;)

    If you reckon going for a Garda interview during your recruit training looks good to a potential interviewer, then by all means crack on. But if you fail to get a place in templemore, you'll be the **** who failed the garda interview during his NS recruit training, which will be your personal cross to bear for your more than likely short time in the Defence Forces.


  • #610
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,504 ✭✭✭tac foley


    It's make-your-mind-up time, fella.

    a.

    or

    b.

    tac


  • #611
    mikeym
    Registered Users Posts: 3,984 ✭✭✭mikeym


    http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/pdforra-hundreds-bail-out-of-naval-service-over-pay-393071.html

    The naval service is haemorrhaging enlisted personnel because of poor pay and a recruitment drive to plug the gaps will not work unless wages are significantly improved, it has been claimed.

    Gerry Rooney, general secretary of PDForra, the association that represents frontline soldiers, sailors and aircrew, said the low level of entry pay will “totally undermine” the ambitious recruitment plans announced by Defence Minister Simon Coveney.

    A year after initial entry, the pay of a private soldier or seaman is just €21,828, and PDForra claims that, in some cases, sailors are receiving less than the minimum wage while working on Operation Pontus, the humanitarian mission in the Mediterranean.



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  • #612
    Internet Ham
    Closed Accounts Posts: 164 ✭✭Internet Ham


    Scratch that.


  • #613
    Brian Clowen
    Registered Users Posts: 109 ✭✭Brian Clowen


    RandyWatson wrote: »
    So I have my medical in july for the navy after getting through the interview in the last round, im just wondering does anybody know what the pay is exactly for being away for the 4 weeks?

    €20 a day after tax approx so €140 a week.

    Ordinary Seaman at sea earns €270 approx a week after all deductions.

    So you will get €410 a week at sea for maybe the first six (6) to (10) mths.


  • #614
    JustThisGuy
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭JustThisGuy


    Time to revive this thread ����

    Quick one, don't know if it's still a thing but if you enlist and wish to leave during your training or what you're contracted to (I don't know if it's a 2 year contract you sign or what not) do you have to pay or "buy yourself out" ?

    By no means necessary do I plan on doing this but I am wondering if that is still a thing.


  • #615
    MRLAZY
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭MRLAZY


    JustThisGuy wrote: »
    Time to revive this thread ����

    Quick one, don't know if it's still a thing but if you enlist and wish to leave during your training or what you're contracted to (I don't know if it's a 2 year contract you sign or what not) do you have to pay or "buy yourself out" ?

    By no means necessary do I plan on doing this but I am wondering if that is still a thing.

    You sign a 5 year contract. Yes you will have to buy yourself out if you want to leave within the 5 years. The buy out cost depends on what branch you are in. I think its about 200e for seamens and 2grand for mechs and comms.


  • #616
    JustThisGuy
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭JustThisGuy


    MRLAZY wrote: »
    You sign a 5 year contract. Yes you will have to buy yourself out if you want to leave within the 5 years. The buy out cost depends on what branch you are in. I think its about 200e for seamens and 2grand for mechs and comms.

    Cheers for the reply. Also quick one, I'm sure it's been asked 110 times but Ive seen about 10 different answers. If successful, training, is it straight away on the ships and out in the sea or in the barracks on land for the initial 17 weeks?


  • #617
    Rescueme0007
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭Rescueme0007


    I was previously a member of the NS, however I retired in the summer of 1999 having completed 21+ years. The service has changed greatly during that time but the fundamentals remain the same.

    Join as a recruit, enduring recruit training, I recollect it being 16 weeks. thereafter as an ordinary rate one typically is assigned to one of the branches, e.g. engineering, seamen, logistics etc.,

    Sent to sea upon joining a ship. Thereafter ones life is dictated by the ships operational profile (patrol plan). Lots of time at sea. It can be great fun and inordinately boring depending upon the tempo of the patrol.

    You'll need to be able to subordinate your desires to the demands of the service and specifically your unit. You'll serve with all sorts of people in potentially stressful situations. Remember that the NS is operational, the sea is always seeking it's next opportunity to send you to perdition. Ones development within the service is down to a number of factors, ability, opportunity, interests etc., but above all down to ones commitment and willingness to contribute. You will work hard.

    Most people who join grow tremendously in character, confidence, durability and capacity. Even if they choose not to stay, they'll be much better able to deal with life's turmoil and challenges thereafter.


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