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Gap Year

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  • 30-03-2010 8:51pm
    #1
    Snas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38 ✭


    Is anyone taking a gap year after the Leaving? Any ideas of what to do?


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    #2
    Zephyr91
    Registered Users Posts: 256 ✭✭Zephyr91


    Sitting beside the dumpster at Tesco drinking a can of Dutch Gold p'raps? I'm joking of course. Gap years can be very beneficial.

    Am I taking one? No. If I were taking taking one? I'd travel the world and the seven seas. Or America. I haven't decided yet. May take one after college!


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    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users Posts: 15,382 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    Snas wrote: »
    Is anyone taking a gap year after the Leaving? Any ideas of what to do?

    Maybe find somewhere for you and your girlfriend out of the way of her mother :pac:


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    theowen
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    rainbowtrout wrote: »
    Maybe find somewhere for you and your girlfriend out of the way of her mother :pac:
    :D:rolleyes:


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    jumpguy
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    IMO, they're only worth it if you actually have something to do. Sitting around bored all year, in pubs and whatnot, will only serve to show you what unemployment is like.

    I haven't taken a gap year though nor do I plan to, all this is my opinion/speculation...


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    gant0
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    To be honest the only way you should take a gap year is if you plan on living in another country,doing charity work or getting a full time job.If you just end up mopping around the house and doing a part time job to pay for beer it'll be visible when you apply for a job after collage and they see you spent a year of your life sitting around doing **** all.I don't think any employer would be encouraged by that.


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    degausserxo
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    Speaking as someone who's technically on one right now, unless you have definite things happening, a job, travelling, Fás course, whatever.. don't do it if you just have 'plans'. I've been jobseeking since November, and the only volunteer work I've been accepted to do is ridiculously far away. There's nothing worse than sitting at home while your friends are in college. Except war and stuff.


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    degausserxo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭degausserxo


    gant0 wrote: »
    To be honest the only way you should take a gap year is if you plan on living in another country,doing charity work or getting a full time job.If you just end up mopping around the house and doing a part time job to pay for beer it'll be visible when you apply for a job after collage and they see you spent a year of your life sitting around doing **** all.I don't think any employer would be encouraged by that.

    Not necessarily. There could be a number of reasons why someone didn't go to college straight away. Plus, it's not like you list every year of your life and what you did during those years on your CV.


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    dan_d
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    Unless you've got some travelling in mind, I'm afraid that's a concept that went out the window with the celtic tiger.


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