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    #32
    Postman-Layla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 50 ✭✭Postman-Layla


    postalservice wrote: »

    http://www.summerstudentsjobs.ie/

    Something looks a bit dodgey about that site - anyone had any experience with it?


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    #33
    teckoda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 146 ✭✭teckoda


    I'm going to be heading to Amsterdam to work for a month. Should be fun ;)


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    #34
    luke999
    Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭luke999


    Postman-Layla wrote: »
    Something looks a bit dodgey about that site - anyone had any experience with it?

    It looks dodgey ar fad. They are rounding all the students up to make briquettes out of them. The wages sound pretty decent though, is it just me or is the actual work itself a bit unclear?


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    #35
    Postman-Layla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 50 ✭✭Postman-Layla


    The wages always sound pretty decent on the surface of the world of call girls [/boys]


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    #36
    Gavin "shels"
    Registered Users Posts: 17,965 ✭✭✭✭Gavin "shels"


    Myth wrote: »
    Chuggers?!

    Yup the scratch card sellers. Good pay I've been told though.


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    #37
    Gavin "shels"
    Registered Users Posts: 17,965 ✭✭✭✭Gavin "shels"


    Postman-Layla wrote: »
    Something looks a bit dodgey about that site - anyone had any experience with it?


    Nope it's not dodgey, ironically the guy who's number is at the bottom of the page is the contact I've been given for the Hanley Centre and 2 of my mates got jobs with them through himself.


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    #38
    Davidius
    Registered Users Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    It's mid-June and only now am I thinking about getting work.

    And that's only so I can play TF2 on PC. I don't need money for anything else. :pac:


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    #39
    PurpleFistMixer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭PurpleFistMixer


    TF2 is only 20 dollars on Steam. (Also there's a free weekend on this weekend!)

    I think next week I'll head into town and see what I can find... I can only work for a month so my hopes aren't high, but you never know...


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    #40
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    Davidius wrote: »
    It's mid-June and only now am I thinking about getting work.

    And that's only so I can play TF2 on PC. I don't need money for anything else. :pac:

    Quake wars ftw!
    It has class online play, and is immensely more fun than TF2.
    TF2 is good, but I was expecting more tbh...


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    #41
    orangetictac
    Registered Users Posts: 252 ✭✭orangetictac


    I have been offered mystery shopping jobs all year but the money isnt great and i'd feel bad reporting someone for doing a 'bad' job but now desperate times...you know the rest


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    #42
    Davidius
    Registered Users Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    The cost of the game is not the problem, I need money to upgrade so my computer will run on it. :(

    EDIT:
    If the 360 version of TF2 was enough to make me play over 100 hours, I think the PC version will do me fine. :pac:


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    #43
    Piste
    Registered Users Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    orangetictac wrote: »
    I have been offered mystery shopping jobs all year but the money isnt great and i'd feel bad reporting someone for doing a 'bad' job but now desperate times...you know the rest



    OooOOOooh, mystery shopping! How much do you get paid and do they cover the expense of what you're buying? Sounds fun!


    That summerjobs.ie site looks well dodge to me...is it in fact recruiting for chuggers when it says "fundraising"?


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    #44
    22diamonds
    Registered Users Posts: 96 ✭✭22diamonds


    I'll just go back to the job I had last summer. Harpist/entertainer/ medeavil princess in bunratty castle banquets :D


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    #45
    Piste
    Registered Users Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    I want that job too!



    Why am I only discovering now that there are more interesting jobs than retail out there?!


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    #46
    orangetictac
    Registered Users Posts: 252 ✭✭orangetictac


    One job i was offered was to buy fruit batteries and wine(when i was under 18)
    You had to hide the batteries in the wine crate or something, kinda stupid.
    If you get away with it you have to get an older person to bring it back and hand them a letter telling them about the situation.
    I think the payment was €50 and you keep the fruit or something

    But imagine walking back in and giving the letter:confused:awkward


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    #47
    Timans
    Registered Users Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭Timans


    PurpleFistMixer wrote: »
    TF2 is only 20 dollars on Steam. (Also there's a free weekend on this weekend!)

    I think next week I'll head into town and see what I can find... I can only work for a month so my hopes aren't high, but you never know...
    Just don't tell them that you're only available for a month, and then just hand it your notice. Hey presto, nobody loses*

    *except the employer.


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    #48
    Piste
    Registered Users Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    orangetictac wrote: »
    One job i was offered was to buy fruit batteries and wine(when i was under 18)
    You had to hide the batteries in the wine crate or something, kinda stupid.
    If you get away with it you have to get an older person to bring it back and hand them a letter telling them about the situation.
    I think the payment was €50 and you keep the fruit or something

    But imagine walking back in and giving the letter:confused:awkward


    Sounds cool! Do you have any contacts for that?


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    #49
    orangetictac
    Registered Users Posts: 252 ✭✭orangetictac


    Just the website
    https://www.grassrootsmysteryshopping.com/


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    #50
    1huge1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭1huge1


    Ive thrown my cv into about 9 places in Limerick so far, (gave in 5 today), I think im too late to be honest and its damn hard getting a job at the moment.
    Typical that just when im at the age of getting a job were in a recession. Ah well I got 4 years of college ahead of me so im not too pushed


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    #51
    Peleus
    Registered Users Posts: 784 ✭✭✭Peleus


    1huge1 wrote: »
    Typical that just when im at the age of getting a job were in a recession.

    If i've learnt anything from economics, and i have, this recession is all speculation...


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    #52
    estebancambias
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    I need money and fast.

    Problem is I really don't want to work. Couldn't be bothered actually printing a CV. and going to the effort of actually handing it in, not anymore.


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    #53
    MattD
    Registered Users Posts: 1,013 ✭✭✭MattD


    Why dont you just rob somewhere? :pac:


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    #54
    cHaTbOx
    Registered Users Posts: 8,011 ✭✭✭cHaTbOx


    MattD wrote: »
    Why dont you just rob somewhere? :pac:

    or beg?:pac:


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    #55
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    are non-existant this summer.

    Its shoyyyt.

    I'm just doing aload of promo work.. Tis great cuz it's all at night.. So i'm getting paid to go out.. and give out free drink.. which we usually end up drinking ourselves.. just check out jobs.ie. They are always looking for people.. You'll be most successful with moose events.


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    #56
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Gavin shels wrote: »
    Yup the scratch card sellers. Good pay I've been told though.

    But... you'd be a chugger?


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    #57
    leavo08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭leavo08


    During the summer of 5th year I worked in a supermarket and got paid the following month due to knowing owners bla bla...and my pay worked out at 3.20 an hour....I wasnt 18 or anything,but what a joke!!!


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    #58
    quoteunquote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 292 ✭✭quoteunquote


    I got a job in a liquor factory. Mwahahahahahahaha!!


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    #59
    muffinman
    Registered Users Posts: 494 ✭✭muffinman


    Peleus wrote: »
    If i've learnt anything from economics, and i have, this recession is all speculation...

    :rolleyes:


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    #60
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    Myth wrote: »
    But... you'd be a chugger?

    +1

    I despise the Hanley centre chuggers. They're very unprofessional.


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    #61
    Gavin "shels"
    Registered Users Posts: 17,965 ✭✭✭✭Gavin "shels"


    Sean_K wrote: »
    +1

    I despise the Hanley centre chuggers. They're very unprofessional.

    In all due respect they're a bunch of un-trained under 18's, what do you except? People were looking for jobs, I gave them information of a place looking for students 1+1=2:rolleyes:

    Beggers can't be choosers as the saying goes.


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