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Easiest way for an unemployed Irishman to get work to live in England?

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  • #52
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,424 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Machine will do it faster


    Yes but most small operators don't have a machine.


  • #53
    Quadrivium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 213 ✭✭Quadrivium


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Machine will do it faster

    There's no such thing as a Bricklaying machine. Also, there's a lot more to it than.just laying brick or block. Setting out, calculating quantities, planning and the skill needed for Brickwork will never be done by a machine in our life time. And yes, any half decent Bricklayers labourer will make 700 gbp per week easy, some make 1k a week.


  • #54
    Forty Seven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭Forty Seven


    Quadrivium wrote: »
    There's no such thing as a Bricklaying machine. Also, there's a lot more to it than.just laying brick or block. Setting out, calculating quantities, planning and the skill needed for Brickwork will never be done by a machine in our life time. And yes, any half decent Bricklayers labourer will make 700 gbp per week easy, some make 1k a week.

    Average construction wage is £45,900 right now so you are bang on with your numbers. Construction wages are actually rising due to a lack of immigrant workers. In 2017 average was £42,300.


  • #55
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Quadrivium wrote: »
    There's no such thing as a Bricklaying machine. Also, there's a lot more to it than.just laying brick or block. Setting out, calculating quantities, planning and the skill needed for Brickwork will never be done by a machine in our life time. And yes, any half decent Bricklayers labourer will make 700 gbp per week easy, some make 1k a week.

    I have shares in the machine


  • #56
    Forty Seven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭Forty Seven


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    I have shares in the machine

    Doubt I would invest in experimental tech. The failure rate is astronomical. A building site is too variable for a machine to lay bricks. Not in our lifetime. Have you a link to this company so I can see for myself?


  • #57
    Wexford96
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭Wexford96


    Forty Seven wrote: »
    I live in the UK. I just left a groundskeeping job on a campsite. Light gardening etc. I was paid £500 a week. Before that I was working in a car dealership as a parts advisor for £23,000 pa. Construction pays much more and there are plenty jobs. Going into the antique trade myself, no longer need the job. Plenty money flowing here. Everybody is driving new cars. Plenty fruit picking jobs in Dundee due to EU nationals leaving, cheap living there too. The Brexit scaremongering is nonsense. Life will go on as always, just as it did after much bigger shocks than leaving a trading bloc.

    As for a 3 week wait to see a doctor. Only if you want an appointment. With free at the point of use healthcare you get a lot of no-shows. I can go to my doctor any morning and wait to be seen. All doctors have moved to this to stop timewasters but of course it is reported with a scaremongering diatribe. I went on Friday and was seen in 30 minutes. It is a better system.
    Where are the EU Nationals heading for?


  • #58
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Wexford96 wrote: »
    Where are the EU Nationals heading for?

    Ireland for the scratcher


  • #59
    Wexford96
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭Wexford96


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Ireland for the scratcher
    lol


  • #60
    Forty Seven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭Forty Seven


    Wexford96 wrote: »
    Forty Seven wrote: »
    I live in the UK. I just left a groundskeeping job on a campsite. Light gardening etc. I was paid £500 a week. Before that I was working in a car dealership as a parts advisor for £23,000 pa. Construction pays much more and there are plenty jobs. Going into the antique trade myself, no longer need the job. Plenty money flowing here. Everybody is driving new cars. Plenty fruit picking jobs in Dundee due to EU nationals leaving, cheap living there too. The Brexit scaremongering is nonsense. Life will go on as always, just as it did after much bigger shocks than leaving a trading bloc.

    As for a 3 week wait to see a doctor. Only if you want an appointment. With free at the point of use healthcare you get a lot of no-shows. I can go to my doctor any morning and wait to be seen. All doctors have moved to this to stop timewasters but of course it is reported with a scaremongering diatribe. I went on Friday and was seen in 30 minutes. It is a better system.
    Where are the EU Nationals heading for?

    I'm guessing home. Poland is booming thanks to the money they earned here and in Ireland which they used to build cheap houses back home. Bought a building plot myself in Poland in 2008. Will have to see what it's worth now.


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  • #61
    Wexford96
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭Wexford96


    Forty Seven wrote: »
    I'm guessing home. Poland is booming thanks to the money they earned here and in Ireland which they used to build cheap houses back home. Bought a building plot myself in Poland in 2008. Will have to see what it's worth now.
    I had heard Poland was going well but they're avoiding a boom type scenario. Can a Polish brickie go home and make say 500 a week now?


  • #62
    Forty Seven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭Forty Seven


    Wexford96 wrote: »
    Forty Seven wrote: »
    I'm guessing home. Poland is booming thanks to the money they earned here and in Ireland which they used to build cheap houses back home. Bought a building plot myself in Poland in 2008. Will have to see what it's worth now.
    I had heard Poland was going well but they're avoiding a boom type scenario. Can a Polish brickie go home and make say 500 a week now?

    Don't know wages but they are building everywhere with a combination of EU money for large infrastructure and plenty small private builds. I'm sure wages will be comparable to cost of living. Most polish 'builders' had never laid a block or painted a wall before coming over. They came, built houses they ended up renting, picked up a trade and funded a house back home out of it. They did well. Worked hard for it too.


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