Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi all! We have been experiencing an issue on site where threads have been missing the latest postings. The platform host Vanilla are working on this issue. A workaround that has been used by some is to navigate back from 1 to 10+ pages to re-sync the thread and this will then show the latest posts. Thanks, Mike.
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

What career pays well and is easily accessible

  • 06-06-2019 9:42pm
    #1
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,256 ✭✭✭


    Inspired by the difficult career path thread. What sector is crying out for people and paying well?


«1

Comments

  • #2
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    Whoring, for women anyway:D:D:D


  • #3
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,510 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    I'm going to guess this thread is used by people to put down jobs they have no respect for.


  • #4
    _blaaz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,646 ✭✭✭_blaaz


    Scaffolding....pays decent enough wages


  • #5
    Rows Grower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,364 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    Ubbquittious wrote: »
    Inspired by the difficult career path thread. What sector is crying out for people and paying well?

    Hitman, drug dealer, swing supervisor.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • #6
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,430 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Labourer on building site
    Taxi driver


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,173 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Career personal injuries claimant.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #8
    Pissartist
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 473 ✭✭Pissartist


    People trafficking


  • #9
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,450 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Sales,if you're good at it.


  • #10
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,618 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    My 16yo did a 1 week course to teach swimming and earns €12.50 per half hour for lessons.
    She just completed another 1 week and is a qualified lifeguard, I think it pays similar.

    Not a career but a decent earner for a 16yo and not hard work.

    She’s a decent swimmer and competes at international level.

    It’s her plan for working through college and perhaps summers on the continent on campsites.


  • #11
    Wildly Boaring
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,652 ✭✭✭Wildly Boaring


    In construction any of the dry trades
    Electrician
    Plumber
    Tiler

    Reasonable money with no entry requirements.

    Big money - hard to get into but no real requirements
    Tunnelling
    Best paid guy I've met on a site was a tunnel boring machine driver. But only about 3 in the country


  • Advertisement
  • #12
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,700 ✭✭✭Feisar


    QS

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #13
    Wildly Boaring
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,652 ✭✭✭Wildly Boaring


    Feisar wrote: »
    QS

    Ugh
    Zero craic.


  • #14
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Ubbquittious wrote: »
    Inspired by the difficult career path thread. What sector is crying out for people and paying well?

    Technical roles in manufacturing.
    Seems like there's a shortage of technicians lately.
    A good guide is what courses are being offered on Springboard.


  • #15
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,700 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Wildly Boaring wrote: »
    Ugh
    Zero craic.

    Who are ya tellin'!

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #16
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Become a traveller. You don’t ever have to work and you will have more money for cars/vans, lavish weddings, first communions, funerals etc etc than anyone who has to work for a living. Revenue dept will be afraid of their life of you and give you every thing you ask for just to get rid of you. You can play the traveller card everywhere and so will have more rights than settled people.


  • #17
    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    Software development if you have any aptitude for it.

    Seems like all the trades. Australia incentivizing migration. Stupid attitude that everyone should go to college. The **** dip in the construction industry. All these contributed to a general bad lack of tradespeople now.


  • #18
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Nails.


  • #19
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    Bus driver.


  • #20
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,450 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Ice cream van. Quite good money by all accounts.


  • #21
    Nobelium
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭Nobelium


    Deandre Skinny Baritone wrote: »
    Software development if you have any aptitude for it.

    far from easily accessible . . unless you're naturally talented at it, very fast, happy to be glued to a screen 50-60 hrs per week, and obsessed with IT, and happy to completely retrain yourself in everything every few years to keep up . .few are that dedicated. Many try it though based on the myth anyone can do it.


  • Advertisement
  • #22
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,536 ✭✭✭touts


    Civil Service desk jobs don't seem too stressful, don't seem to need too many qualifications and are pretty well paid for what they do. Don't know how accessable they are though. You probably have to know someone in there to get a job.


  • #23
    radharc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 969 ✭✭✭radharc


    Steel fixing and concrete work


  • #24
    0ph0rce0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,987 ✭✭✭0ph0rce0


    Wildly Boaring wrote:
    In construction any of the dry trades Electrician Plumber Tiler

    Reasonable money with no entry requirements.


    Hmmm pretty sure you can't just rock up to building sites and start wiring houses and fitting gas boilers with no entry requirements. Are you for real?


  • #25
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Learn to code :D


  • #26
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,450 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Could probably do a bit of painting. Your own boss and cash in hand.


  • #27
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    I was making more money with no qualifications working in construction than I am now with a third level stem qualification.


  • #28
    Wildly Boaring
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,652 ✭✭✭Wildly Boaring


    0ph0rce0 wrote: »
    Hmmm pretty sure you can't just rock up to building sites and start wiring houses and fitting gas boilers with no entry requirements. Are you for real?

    There are no entry requirements to an apprenticeship.

    Not like you need 600 in the leaving and a diverse extra curricular activities portfolio.

    4 years of low wages and voila.

    Most jobs these days are 4 years of college min. In fact most graduates finding they need a masters by now


  • #29
    Nobelium
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭Nobelium


    kneemos wrote: »
    Ice cream van. Quite good money by all accounts.

    you don't make it selling ice cream though . . .


  • #30
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Nobelium wrote: »
    kneemos wrote: »
    Ice cream van. Quite good money by all accounts.

    you don't make it selling ice cream though . . .

    True. The real margin is in the flake.


  • Advertisement
  • #31
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    True. The real margin is in the flake.

    Thought it was in the drugs they sell :(


  • #32
    Edgware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    touts wrote: »
    Civil Service desk jobs don't seem too stressful, don't seem to need too many qualifications and are pretty well paid for what they do. Don't know how accessable they are though. You probably have to know someone in there to get a job.
    No you dont. Just do the ****ing exam. If you cant pass that dont resign your village idiot post.


  • #33
    Edgware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Wildly Boaring wrote: »
    There are no entry requirements to an apprenticeship.

    Not like you need 600 in the leaving and a diverse extra curricular activities portfolio.

    4 years of low wages and voila.

    Most jobs these days are 4 years of college min. In fact most graduates finding they need a masters by now
    Piano player in a brothel pays well


  • #34
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,450 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Retail store.


  • #35
    Nobelium
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭Nobelium


    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    True. The real margin is in the flake.

    and not cadbury's


  • #36
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    . . .


  • Advertisement
  • #37
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Night shift in a factory. **** work though.


  • #38
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    True. The real margin is in the flake.

    Thought it was in the drugs they sell :(

    Ah no, the gardai would be well wise to that type of thing. Easy sting operation.


  • #39
    vargoo
    Registered Users Posts: 737 ✭✭✭vargoo


    Wildly Boaring wrote: »



    4 years of low wages and voila.

    2.

    Decent from year 3.


  • #40
    corcaigh1
    Registered Users Posts: 647 ✭✭✭corcaigh1


    Nobelium wrote: »
    you don't make it selling ice cream though . . .

    Duncan Bannatyne had a venture selling ice cream...


  • #41
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    touts wrote: »
    Civil Service desk jobs don't seem too stressful, don't seem to need too many qualifications and are pretty well paid for what they do. Don't know how accessable they are though. You probably have to know someone in there to get a job.

    Ah they get paid crap though, unless you are qualified


  • Advertisement
  • #42
    screamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭screamer


    Become a carer in nursing home. Lots of jobs, pays well. Couldn’t do it myself but know plenty of people who are making a decent living at it


  • #43
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    There's a lot to be said for construction jobs. Pay decent, keeps you fit if your willing to work and you have the end of day satisfaction of a job done well. Same can't be said for a lot of office jobs with deadlines and an always on mantra with phones and laptops.

    I found office politics tedious. Working in construction now and spending evenings on my hobbies instead of worrying about project deliveries and happy out.


  • #44
    Wildly Boaring
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,652 ✭✭✭Wildly Boaring


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    There's a lot to be said for construction jobs. Pay decent, keeps you fit if your willing to work and you have the end of day satisfaction of a job done well. Same can't be said for a lot of office jobs with deadlines and an always on mantra with phones and laptops.

    I found office politics tedious. Working in construction now and spending evenings on my hobbies instead of worrying about project deliveries and happy out.

    Problem in this country is the inevitable downturn. If like last time and capital spend halted completely you may make sure the mattress is well stuffed.

    Make hay now anyway


  • #45
    Nobelium
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭Nobelium


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    There's a lot to be said for construction jobs. Pay decent, keeps you fit if your willing to work and you have the end of day satisfaction of a job done well. Same can't be said for a lot of office jobs with deadlines and an always on mantra with phones and laptops.

    I found office politics tedious. Working in construction now and spending evenings on my hobbies instead of worrying about project deliveries and happy out.

    i went the opposite way, glad to get out of the years of dirty dangerous work in all weathers, travelling all the time, in an unregulated (in reality) industry full of unscrupulous cowboys, bluffers and gangsters.


  • #46
    bri007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,375 ✭✭✭bri007


    A carer is a tough job. Long hours, not enough staff usually and take a lot of stress of the job home with you.
    screamer wrote: »
    Become a carer in nursing home. Lots of jobs, pays well. Couldn’t do it myself but know plenty of people who are making a decent living at it


  • #47
    Redpunto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,024 ✭✭✭Redpunto


    Kristopherus wrote: »
    Whoring, for women anyway:D:D:D

    Yeah coz nobody would wanna touch u even if u paid them for it


  • #48
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Wildly Boaring wrote: »
    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    There's a lot to be said for construction jobs. Pay decent, keeps you fit if your willing to work and you have the end of day satisfaction of a job done well. Same can't be said for a lot of office jobs with deadlines and an always on mantra with phones and laptops.

    I found office politics tedious. Working in construction now and spending evenings on my hobbies instead of worrying about project deliveries and happy out.

    Problem in this country is the inevitable downturn. If like last time and capital spend halted completely you may make sure the mattress is well stuffed.

    Make hay now anyway

    I'm lucky enough my qualifications are Finance & Accounting and professional certs project related so that I can jump back into consulting in the global market when the inevitable downturn does come. But I do prefer the manual labour!

    Tipped away filling a skip today after weeks of demolition and had the tunes on. Happy out :-)


  • #49
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,450 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    I'm lucky enough my qualifications are Finance & Accounting and professional certs project related so that I can jump back into consulting in the global market when the inevitable downturn does come. But I do prefer the manual labour!

    Tipped away filling a skip today after weeks of demolition and had the tunes on. Happy out :-)


    No bubble this time though,just a lack of housing and labour.
    Neither of which are being filled.


  • #50
    pgj2015
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,471 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    i worked on the buildings for a few years, then got a degree and an office job, hated it and quit very soon after. working on sites in ireland in winter is tough but id rather that than an office job any day.


  • #51
    Ahorseofaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 269 ✭✭Ahorseofaman


    Edgware wrote: »
    Piano player in a brothel pays well



    Are you kidding?350 euro for 4 nights?
    (They wanted 500 but I beat them down,no flies on me)
    ��


  • Advertisement
Advertisement