Do any careers still enjoy high social status in Ireland today?

ThewhiteJesus wrote: »

As long as you are not a straight white male you’ll do great these days

I find many doctors ( not all) are very greedy as regards money. There should be an NHS equivalent in Ireland. They dont have the prestige they once had. I know many of my family are medics.

Imo there aren't any.
To have any 'prestige' in my eyes you do your job honourably and efficiently.

We have teacher, garda I, judges politicians betc that have shown themselves to be a disgrace to their so-called profession.

mikemac2 wrote: »

Bank clerk used to be a very good job. A job in a bank was a job for life

You make it wounds like a prison sentence!

No. As someone already suggested everyone gets at least a degree these days. Degree, Masters and PhDs have become more common so it makes less of an impression now.

Mr_Muffin wrote: »

Sandwich Artists.

My local place has ‘coffee consultants’

Social Influencers seem to be very important.

At least they claim they are when they demand free stuff from restaurants, hotels, shops etc or they will tell their thousands of followers. "Give me and my like 6 bbfs here a free meal or I'll tell my like 20,000 insta followers how like awful this place is". 30 years ago gangsters used to try that with the old "yuz got a lot of veby valuable gear in here. Twod be n awful shame if the place burned down".

20 years ago protection rackets were fraud but apparently now they are social marketing strategy.

I don't think people really care anymore what career a person has....most people realise that the vast majority of working people have the same problems as them regardless of what career they have........obviously a surgeon will make more than the average factory worker but I think people don't really care anymore.

As long as a person carries themselves well they'll be respected anyway.

It's great to see Irish people become more and more educated/qualified. Education is key to balancing social inequality imo.

skooterblue2 wrote: »

For every 250 people there is a registered charity. Does that make you head spin?

Government spends 5.5bn a year handing out cash to them. They are all part of massive clique.

Spunout.ie sums it up. A website Founded by a guy call Ruairi Mckiernan, who weaseled his way onto the Presidents Council of State. Chairman of the Board - Chris Donoghue, formerly of Newstalk and now working for Simon Coveney. Their twitter page get f**k all interactions. The same person liking and retweeting the posts (he just happens to work there)
https://twitter.com/SpunOut?s=09

Over 80% of their funding comes from Government (over 500k), from 3 different departments. Wages account for 63% of their spending (420k). All that for a website and twitter page that nobody looks at.

There are tons and tons of Spunouts floating about. And the same names and office addresses seem to pop up all of the time. They'll say their CEO only earns 60k or so but you can bet your bottom that the CEO has their fingers on a second or third NGO/Charity

Lidl cashiers were lauded as the greatest heroes in society there for a while, but I don’t think it lasted.

Rubberchikken wrote: »

Imo there aren't any.
To have any 'prestige' in my eyes you do your job honourably and efficiently.

We have teacher, garda I, judges politicians betc that have shown themselves to be a disgrace to their so-called profession.

There are bad apples in every profession. you are taking about a tiny number of bad apples.

Feisar wrote: »

Doctors still do IMO.

ThewhiteJesus wrote: »

As long as you are not a straight white male you’ll do great these days

I read these two posts and thought what about all those doctors who are from the Indian sub continent in Ireland, or who have parents from that sub continent?

https://www.tuh.ie/Consultants/Dr-Karthikeyan-Srinivasan.html

Plus Leo Varadradkar became Taoiseach how can anyone ignore that!

Plus Rotimi Adebari (from Nigeria) was elected Mayor of Portlaoise in 2007.

Also Ireland has had Jewish TD's Briscoes, Shatter and so on throught the history of the state .

Ireland has top class lecturers from places as varied as Sudan.
Like Abdullahi El-Tom who lectures anthropology in Maynooth university

https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/abdullahi-el-tom

Plus only recently we have seen Hazel Chu elected Lord Mayor of Dublin

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/green-party-s-hazel-chu-elected-lord-mayor-of-dublin-1.4291870

I believe 'straight white male' myth is an American construct which has seeped into the English speaking worlds lexicon without any real thought.

As regards as what career as social status (the OP's question), yeah you could say Law, Medicine, Science, High End IT.
But I honestly think social status is really high in those who have to work thier way up from nothing, these days. As those who were born into status only seem to have reflected glory.
Another factor in high social status is the contacts people make.

So if you take all these things together:

1) Working in a top field such as Medicine
2) Coming from nothing and being a success
3) Being an emigrant or children of an emigrant in Ireland
4) Many high profile contacts made in both personal and professional life

If you have all of these four criteria you will have the ultimate social status, and more importantly respect in Ireland.

kowloon wrote: »

When I started Mech Eng in the introductory lecture thing the head of the course said 'I hope none of you think you're here to learn how to fix cars'. A guy got up and walked out and was never seen again.

Eejit should have known that before he ever walked in the door.