30 year old arts graduate struggling to get by

If I were in your situation i'd go back.

Do a degree in a field that appeals most to you that's in demand. Believe me you will be far happier with a decent wage in your mid 30's than you are now.

As for being 40 and not able to get a mortgage. That depends on your income at the end of the day.

Up to you but i'd go back. A small thing but there are back to education allowances to help you too.

Also you live with your parents. So what? You going to let pride get in the way? No one cares whether or not you live with your parents.

If you aren't trolling you need to wake up.

You'd scoff at around the average annual gross salary in Ireland (45k) because you hate sales?

Why do you deserve the 60k plus you seek? Most people work hard to get to a point of earning over 60k. What skill set do you have encompassed in your arts degree? What experience do you have?

You're being given suggestions and advice but don't seem to take any.

Do you go through your life expecting things?

Look, I wish you the best. I'm out.

You don’t see any conflict between roles like that and your stated conservative values?

I suspect the answer is "Oh no. Im too good for that with my UCD degree"

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Have just skimmed the thread op, if it’s genuine then you need to snap out of it… you have a problem for every solution, you’re engaged in limiting binary thinking…

Example: ‘I turned down a civil service job because it only goes from 26 to 40k after ten years’

Thats only if you stay as a CO.

If you had any gumption at all (which you don’t appear to have) you would climb up through the grades and could be an AP (scale starts at 70k) after a few years.

Alternatively: if you can’t afford Dublin (or the “nice” parts grandpapa would have approved of) move to somewhere you can afford.

I know you’ve grown up with great expectations Pip but it’s time to cut your coat according to your cloth…

Sounds like it’s cognitive behavioural therapy you need. Really.

No one owes him a house in Dublin... funny a certain cohort are owed free luxury housing in Dublin... would you try living abroad for six months to a year op ? Australia or the uk for example?

It was a very achievable accomplishment for previous generations, so why not now?

Ive always told my kids I wouldnt pay for them to do something "fluffy" in college. They are gearing up now for quality STEM courses

Used to be the way but hasn't been the case for last 20 years or so. Not buying alone anyway.

Also ireland and dublin in particular has seen a large divergence from the average income for certain occupations, these are the ones able to buy the small number of properties available and pushing prices way up.

Institutional investors have also smelled opportunity with sky high rents and are investing heavily. It will take a policy change, this talk of building x number of thousands of houses to meet demand in a county that is smaller than the average county in terms of square miles is nonsense, it will never ever happen while inward foreign investment is allowed and highly skilled foreign workers are allowed buy property along with investment funds. Canada and New Zealand are 2 other countries with housing crises and have recently placed a ban on non citizens buying property. This is the kind of thing that will solve our problems here, but I can't see it ever happening because of our hunger for foreign investment to prop up our economy.

I do have a few colleagues and acquaintances that can't buy a house, it sucks for them, no doubt. Many positions in my company don't offer a salary that even doubled with a partner on same salary would buy a property in Dublin without significant deposit. One unskilled guy did once say he was leaving unless we could give him a salary to enable him to buy a home, but in reality it was impossible for us to do. He did leave but doubt he got anything much higher paid.

They don't, only a small minority of rude snobs do this. Decent people in Ireland realise that the goalposts for home ownership have shifted dramatically. Lots of people in Ireland have well paying jobs and can't afford a home. It's not your fault that the cost of property in Dublin has reached crazy prices.