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What are you doing for the Summer?

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  • 31-05-2004 12:44am
    #1
    conZ
    Registered Users Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭


    With 9 days till the start of the exams, and ~24 till everyones finished, what are ye planning on doing for the summer?

    Holidays/Work/Concerts/College next year/Deferring course etc.?


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    #2
    PrecariousNuts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 761 ✭✭✭PrecariousNuts


    Working on a building site as usual, the pay is out of this world but I was almost killed twice last year.

    And then when I'm not working I'm going to do some maths/physics.

    Also thinking of going abroad on my own for a while.


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    subway_ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭subway_ie


    Originally posted by PrecariousNuts
    Also thinking of going abroad on my own for a while.

    I want to go away on my own too, don't have a clue where. US is out, cost and general hassle reasons. I was thinking maybe train-trip around france/spain for 2 weeks. Might actually let me put my 5 years of french to practical use for once.

    How much do you get paid on the site? I get a lowly €7.50 an hour, but I'm workin' as a barman, which means I pretty much raid the bar/give free drinks to friends whenever I want, so it's not *that* bad...


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    #4
    PrecariousNuts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 761 ✭✭✭PrecariousNuts


    I was getting around 11 euro an hour and then 15 overtime. I worked from 7 till around 6/7, came home and slept. I'm not sure if it was worth it, I didn't get 10 seconds to myself on my holidays, add hayfever ontop of that :(


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    subway_ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭subway_ie


    Yeah, I used to work nights, and 12 hours saturday/sunday, which was a bit crappy. But I'd always have Monday/Tuesday off and I was basically paid to sit around and do nothing on Sundays, when it was always dead. Except when those bastards come in with their crisps. Crisps need to be banned.


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    #6
    Kold
    Registered Users Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    Lanzarote, Amsterdam, working, experimenting.


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    Suaimhneach
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 4,436 Mod ✭✭✭✭Suaimhneach


    Party, work, save, experiment, live a little.

    Anyone got any jobs in Dublin??


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    #8
    DEmeant0r
    Registered Users Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭DEmeant0r


    Go to Hong Kong for a month. :):D


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    #9
    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,504 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    off to prauge with my mates for 2 weeks in july,

    then....


    who knows!


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    #10
    smelly girl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 163 ✭✭smelly girl


    Going to oxegen, cant wait.
    Working in a crappy shop for a few days a week.
    then going for a portfolio course.
    Then gonna get a life.


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    stuey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 583 ✭✭✭stuey


    Plan to go mental the week the exams end and just have a good time. Then im workin In IT support for AIB all summer. then im going to crete in late august. its going to be deadly


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    subway_ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭subway_ie


    How did you get into IT support? Sounds like an interesting job for somebody barely out of school.


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    stuey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 583 ✭✭✭stuey


    I'm lucky in that my dad is a manager in AIB and he got me in. Its a really good job. Im very lucky to get into a third level IT support job for the summer. It will look good on my CV


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    Cannibal Ox
    Registered Users Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭Cannibal Ox


    Going to Oxegen, going to be god damn fun.
    Otherwise, working in a bar and generally panicing about what results I'll get.
    I'm going to Amsterdam for a weekend in August too, which should be fun.


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