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Considering working in a start-up, but need a second job to support myself.

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  • 19-08-2011 1:13pm
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    experiMental
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    I am seriously considering working part-time as a consultant in a start-up. The company is promising and the people are great with lots of experience. I'm quite confident that the company will take off and there will be a good pay-off in the future. I have very few other suitable choices. It's a great way for me to further experience. I assure you that I applied for many other jobs, and didn't get them. I was jobhunting for long enough, and I'm sick of it. My strength is not jobhunting, it's doing stuff. I got international awards and commissions in my area of expertise, back in the past.

    For the first six months, I need a job to support myself. Any job that can pay at least 300 Euro a week to cover my living costs. The great thing is, I can work with the start-up from home. However, I can't live in the street and work in that company. My question: is it going to be nearly impossible to compete for temporary jobs with students and thousands of other jobseekers?

    If so, can I take out a loan to cover myself?


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    ssbob
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    experiMental wrote: »
    For the first six months, I need a job to support myself. Any job that can pay at least 300 Euro a week to cover my living costs. The great thing is, I can work with the start-up from home. However, I can't live in the street and work in that company. My question: is it going to be nearly impossible to compete for temporary jobs with students and thousands of other jobseekers?

    If so, can I take out a loan to cover myself?

    Are you currently on the dole? If so can you apply for the BWEA or business support with the new company to finance you?

    There are plenty of jobs available but you haven't told us your expertise, look in your local newspapers, there are always part-time jobs in those!


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    EIREHotspur
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    ssbob wrote: »
    Are you currently on the dole? If so can you apply for the BWEA....?

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    I thought I read that scheme ended in 2009?
    Or was that a different scheme?


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    ssbob
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    EIREHotspur wrote: »
    I thought I read that scheme ended in 2009?
    Or was that a different scheme?

    As far as I am aware, it is still availble, you should talk to your local social welfare officer.


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    experiMental
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    ssbob wrote: »
    As far as I am aware, it is still availble, you should talk to your local social welfare officer.

    The thing is, that I'll be working as a contractor for a company, so I won't be a part of it. I'm a member of a professional institution that is in the UK, so I doubt whether it will help me to obtain funding for Ireland. The company in question is operating in Ireland and is not considering a move to UK. I'll try asking them again about assistance. I'd like to know whether there is any scheme which is designed to help me when I'll be an independent contractor.

    I figure that the best way for me to survive the first six months of the contract is to get a better job than I currently have and with more hours. Is there another way for me to obtain funding? Would social welfare offer me any benefits for my circumstances?


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    ssbob
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    experiMental wrote: »
    The thing is, that I'll be working as a contractor for a company, so I won't be a part of it. I'm a member of a professional institution that is in the UK, so I doubt whether it will help me to obtain funding for Ireland. The company in question is operating in Ireland and is not considering a move to UK. I'll try asking them again about assistance. I'd like to know whether there is any scheme which is designed to help me when I'll be an independent contractor.

    I figure that the best way for me to survive the first six months of the contract is to get a better job than I currently have and with more hours. Is there another way for me to obtain funding? Would social welfare offer me any benefits for my circumstances?

    Well you could set up your own business and then contract your company to this other company, then you will be entitled to the BWEA, other than that if you are working with this other company on short hours etc you may be entitled to job seekers allowance as an additional top up to your income, your best port of call would be the social welfare office though.


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