Job Interviews

[Fagan_ODowd]

@FlakeAway

What started as me prepping for a job interview to try and get ahead in life has somehow turned into the lads calculating how many pints they could drink back then versus now, factoring in inflation. This is a facinating read.

I don’t believe @Julio_Geordio has factored in the relevant taxation rates so I believe his analysis is flawed.

[mikehunt]

I did this calc a few months back. I used to count my dole in pints. You get more pints today for the dole than you did back then. You didn’t have the option of cheap beer in the off licence either.

[Julio_Geordio]

@Fagan_ODowd

I don’t believe @Julio_Geordio jas factored in the relevant taxation rates so I believe his analysis is flawed.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Julio_Geordio

@Fagan_ODowd

I don’t believe @Julio_Geordio jas factored in the relevant taxation rates so I believe his analysis is flawed.

Impressive

[Julio_Geordio]

Ye had it handy really

[glasagusban]

Despite all their pissing and moaning, @Fagan_ODowd and the rest of the boomers managed to move past their low starting salaries, accumulate wealth and property at an unprecedented rate, tear up the social contract for younger generations, and pull up the ladder behind them.

It’s a remarkable story of triumph over adversity.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@glasagusban

Despite all their pissing and moaning, @Fagan_ODowd and the rest of the boomers managed to move past their low starting salaries, accumulate wealth and property at an unprecedented rate, tear up the social contract for younger generations, and pull up the ladder behind them.

It’s a remarkable story of triumph over adversity.

I don’t know how we did it really.

[Biff_Egan]

The favoured sons stayed at home while the other 6 brothers went off the dig holes for John Bull and send back what they didn’t drink away

[Batigol]

The fellas paying these lads for work at the moment are getting serious value for money

[Cheasty]

@glasagusban

Despite all their pissing and moaning, @Fagan_ODowd and the rest of the boomers managed to move past their low starting salaries, accumulate wealth and property at an unprecedented rate, tear up the social contract for younger generations, and pull up the ladder behind them.

It’s a remarkable story of triumph over adversity.

The term “boomer” is an American thing?

I’ve never heard it referenced in regard to this country.

[glasagusban]

It’s the generational name. Boomers, Gen X, millennials, Gen Z, etc.

[Cheasty]

@glasagusban

It’s the generational name. Boomers, Gen X, millennials, Gen Z, etc.

As far as I can see it’s an American term to refer to people born between 1946 and 1964 in what was referred to as the post-war baby boom.

But this was an American thing, not an Irish thing.

A lot of white Americans (especially Trumpbots) imagine the 1950s as a time of great prosperity. Madly enough a lot of these people seem to imagine the 1960s as an awful time. I can’t think why.

In Ireland there was no “boom” in the 1950s. The phrase “1950s” in Ireland means something else entirely. It means misery.

[flattythehurdler]

@Julio_Geordio

If it comes up in the interview at least you’ll be covered

As long as there’s not a spelling section.

[flattythehurdler]

@glasagusban

Despite all their pissing and moaning, @Fagan_ODowd and the rest of the boomers managed to move past their low starting salaries, accumulate wealth and property at an unprecedented rate, tear up the social contract for younger generations, and pull up the ladder behind them.

It’s a remarkable story of triumph over adversity

Lovely

[Fagan_ODowd]

@flattythehurdler

@glasagusban

Despite all their pissing and moaning, @Fagan_ODowd and the rest of the boomers managed to move past their low starting salaries, accumulate wealth and property at an unprecedented rate, tear up the social contract for younger generations, and pull up the ladder behind them.

It’s a remarkable story of triumph over adversity

Lovely

Says the Baron of Barna.

[flattythehurdler]

I don’t know how I did it really.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@flattythehurdler

I don’t know how I did it really.

Did you tear up the social contract too?

[flattythehurdler]

I have no idea. Probably. I also want to move to Salthill I’ve decided.
The question is how long we can keep the ladder pulled up for.

[glasagusban]

It was. The generational names have become common usage in “the west”. I’d say hardly a day goes by you don’t see a reference to millennial or Gen z.

[Corksfinedtboy]

Meant hardship and emigration