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Do you want to stay in Ireland?
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Hey I'm all on for travelling and seeing the world. I'm a recent graduate too but I'm working a low skilled job now as opposed to a high skilled job in 2007 when I was in my final year of college.
Social Welfare payments aren't to blame for our current situation, regardless of the amount of vitriol that gets thrown around about the welfare system. The country is like this because the government gauranteed the banks and now it's sucking the national exchequer dry. The cost of social welfare isn't what has us in this position.
And again, going away for a few years and coming back with new skills is cool too. It's just depressing to think that we have a new generation of educated peolple coming out of college, exactly the people we need to fix the country, and a good load of them are leaving and will never come back.
Sorry if it came across like that
Meant that with these portion of the new welfare recipient away for a while it would be less of a drain on resources - which would help !
I agree it is depressing but fresh faced graduates will not provide instant recovery to Irish society. Fix the system in next few years with what we have got and watch prosperity return in the long term as those who have left return. Not every one is going to leave as well
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I used to always think that I wanted to get out of here asap, but I dunno I think I'm changing my mind now... I definitely want to travel though, maybe not live anywhere far from home for a long period of time because if I'm honest the whole idea of living somewhere completely unfamiliar and far from home... also not knowing anyone there kinda scares me!
But I definitely want to travel, I want to see the world but perhaps not live anywhere other than the UK or maybe France as I lived there when I was younger and would love to go back..
I do think I would like to go to university somewhere in the UK though, just to become more independent and really to start afresh because I don't like the whole atmosphere in my school and the universities that I'd like to go to (in Ireland) would be full of people from my school and tbh I want to leave them behind me once and for all. Of course I still want to keep in touch with my friends but generally I hate the people in my year! But money is now a problem because the English fees are so high now so it might not be an option and I'll be stuck here after all!
But I've still got time to decide, I'm only in 5th year :P0 -
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I fell in love with Paris instantly, and the couple of weeks of visits there didn't change that at all. The tourist areas are, of course, lovely - but it was the quiet parts that I absolutely adored. The second time I went to Paris, I was with friends and we all split up for a day to do our own thing. Mine was spent wandering around the empty, peaceful back-streets, in little book-shops and vintage shops. And I loved it. I loved the atmosphere, the way random people would start chatting to me (and assuming I was French, somehow
).. Everything really. So I'd definitely like to spend a couple of years there - but my French will need to improve remarkably.
I'd also like to spend some time in Germany - probably Munich or that general area. I'm fascinated by the country and that region in particular and really enjoyed my few days there a year or so back. Finding a job would probably be okay - I was actually going to apply for some finance internships there this year, so I know they have the kind of careers I'd consider doing. I'd love to visit Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and so many other towns in that area to watch all the winter-sports I've somehow become obsessed with over the years (thank you, Eurosport!).
My mother went to a fortune teller/tarot-card reader type in the not so distant past and they insist that I'll do well academically and emigrate to Australia. TBH, I'm not that interested in going there. It could happen, but I'm not madly in love (or out of love either!) with the idea.
There's a good chance I'll end up in the UK (or in the States, if I'm really good/lucky) for work. If I go into finance, there's so many more opportunities there than here and, having researched a lot of companies for various internship applications, I'd certainly find somewhere that I'd enjoy working! There's a few firms with branches in Cambridge and I absolutely love the place (it's like a university city, and it's beautiful
) so I'd love to have the chance to work there - oh, and maybe a postgrad (thinking Part III in Maths or a Masters in Finance) there too! :pac: There's also London, where the main companies are based in the "City" and there would be a lot of amazing opportunities there.
I'd be happy living in Ireland for most of the rest of my life, but I'd like to spend a few years living elsewhere and I absolutely would emigrate for the sake of my career. I think I'll be one of those awful, awful career driven people you see that pretty much lives in their office. Oh dear. >.<
TL;DR - There's lots of places I'd like to live. Here would be one of them, others would be... well, others. :P0 -
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sock puppet wrote: »Yep. Think it's the only part of Aus where it's number 1.
I guessed as much, all the highly-paid government workers and public schools.
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