@flattythehurdler reckons 800 a week take home is a lot. Wouldn’t go too far in Ireland. A lot in the UK because you get a lot of services for free.
did you set yourself up as a company and the company gets paid and not you?
My primary school teacher for first second and third class looked after 80 children spread over the three classes in one room. She is still one of my formative influences (Mrs O’Connor).
Teaching is the most noble of all professions, and should be highly regarded, respected and rewarded imho.
800 a week into your hand is a good wage though.
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I think if two people are taking it home in a family, you’re doing quite well to be honest. Appreciate cost of living in Dublin different to other parts of country, especially in terms of mortgage repayments, but 1600 per family a week take home is a good wedge.
Here’s the issue. 800 a week would go a long way almost anywhere. This is what will slowly kill Ireland Inc.
800 a week take home would be excellent money in nearly all of Europe and indeed the planet.
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I always find it strange when people say that teaching wage is poor - the scale starts at 40k and goes up to 70k - once you progress up the scale through 50k/60k then surely that is a wage that is far from pittance?
Probably had a cupboard full of imaginary refugees to provide for as well…bet you didn’t hear her complaining
I agree. The government’s answer is to up minimum wage. Lazy and counter productive. SMEs have no choice but to up their prices to cover the extra labour costs which immediately negates the wage increase for low paid workers and probably makes them worse off.
Low paid workers are then better off on the dole. Increase costs for the state so need to raise more revenue through rates and SMEs under more pressue and eventually close.
If you can’t live off a hundred euro a day, you need to reassess.
We were taken round a pharmaceutical factory in Islamabad. In one room there were about 14 youngish ladies (Late teens at a guess) sitting in facing rows at a squarish table in a windowless room They were folding small boxes into which small drugs bottles were being packed. I asked about them in horror, as though it was clean and bright, it was horrific looking work to be at. None were talking, and no music or radio or earpods or anything. Just sitting facing each other in silence whilst they folded these tiny sheets into boxes, and packed a bottle I to each, and then put about 32 into a bigger box.
I said that I presumed that machine packing would soon become a thing. The manager said that if that happened they’d lose their jobs (I’d imagined they might be trained to do something a bit more rewarding/stimulating. I asked about their hours. 8 hours a day. 5 days a week. Sitting there folding and packing. Like something out of shuggie Bain.
They earned 30000 rupees a month. The exchange rate is about 300 to the euro.
The manager seemed to think they were lucky.
I asked if I could take a photo to show my daughter what some people had (or not).
I’ll post it, as they said they didn’t mind.
I’ll edit, there was only ten and they are actually older than I thought now I’ve looked at the photo. I think I was just shocked.
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That window behind them just opened onto a blank wall corridor btw.
Good post. We’ve probably all had shitty jobs at some point in our lives but at least a lot of us had the prospect of moving on from them, unlike those misfortunes.
What were lads worst jobs?
When I was a teenager I worked for Noonan’s (the worst cunts I ever worked for) in Shannon Airport as a cleaner. Cleaning toilets was a doddle compared to when we were detailed to clean the Aeroflot planes which flew into Shannon at the time. They stank like Beelzebub’s arse.
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Pussies & Growlers
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Salaries for equivalent jobs (in my game anyway) in Spain and Italy are half what they are here.
Is property very cheap over there ?
On the face of it stripping asbestos out of old buildings in America. Really awful work, hot, dark, wet, dangerous. But there was a gang of us doing it, we were young and we had great craic on and off the job. And it paid well.
Actual worst job. Sanding floors in New York. Backbreaking work, on my own, didn’t pay well. Thank you “New Yorks Finest Floor Sanding Company”
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Problem is if it’s a problem is that we’ve two economies now. There are lots of really well paid people and couples in Dublin. Stats show a huge increase in numbers of couples making more than 100k a year.
In the 1980s nobody had fuck all. Now you’ve people with lots of cash and people struggling cheek by jowl.
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Rooral Paddy with his 300msq house, with kitchen island and 4x4 parked outside will let on its only the lads in suits up in the big schmoke that are doing well
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Working in recruitment trying to source temporary staff for low paid roles in logistics, meat processing, waste disposal and cleaning. Fucking dreary stuff
Hospital laundry. No redeeming features.
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