Staff Shortages in Ireland.

whatever it is, it's not doing the teaching shortage any favours.

Nursing in Ireland was always about status. Going back a while, a girl who went into nursing was expected to stay a few years, and then leave when she got married. It was seen as a suitable job until marriage, and gave a girl a good training that she could use while bringing up her children.

Now that people are expected to remain on the job, it has become too onerous for the nice middle class women, so they have to a large extent been replaced by a lower breed on the shop floor, so to speak. They are now overseers. I have heard various nurse friends of the older variety speak scathingly of modern nurses.

Well this is it, from a financial point of view it never made sense. I am a potentially a digital nomad since 2017 but I prefer to stay in one place, the place I would most like to stay is Ireland where my family and old group of friends are and the country/society I love the most but it makes absolutely no financial sense. I wouldn't live in an extreme low tax Haven either because I want a life, so I am in the states which for me is a good compromise between lower tax/cost of living and quality of life.

Ideally I'd move home once I establish financial independence but of course they don't make it easy. I don't think my retirement tax sheltered account would transfer too easily or my social security that I've paid into for years. I would be penalized by 100s of thousands. My wife is a surgeon in the us. She would take a pay cut to work in Ireland, a country with a massive shortage in doctors and surgeons. I think it would take at least six months in new board exams and recertification and after that she would go from an independent attending surgeon in the us to a supervised registrar is my guess in Ireland because the consultant positions are like gold dust apparently despite there being a chronic shortage. I don't get it, it's just bureaucratic barriers everywhere and high taxation and high cost of living.

I'm ok because I bought property at the right time not because I've a particularly amazing salary in IT. The second tier companies don't pay what FAANG pay and also don't expect the same commitment.

But I've no idea what my kids will do or where they will live apart from with me.

Maybe I'll retire somewhere cheap and leave them the house. 😜

Ireland's economy and population has grown too fast over past 20 years or so leading to increasing demand on services and more choice for employees. Why bother working in a physically or mentally demanding job when you can get a well paid role working for the likes of a tech company or other multinational?

22 of the 37 Council members are teachers either elected or selected. Those elected are nearly all union reps current or former.

Wait, you think that jobs at multinationals aren't mentally demanding?

If anything the work culture now is far more demanding than previous decades.

I agree, some are but others involve endless meetings, zoom calls and delegating work to someone else. Compare this to jobs that are now seeing shortages like nurses, social workers, teachers and guards which would be more stressful.

Stress in both tbh. I think sitting at desk all day is worse for your physical health though.

Housing is too expensive and people simply are not paid enough.

People talking about "generous social welfare" are full of it. If a business can't pay a living wage, then it is not a viable business. I am sick of having to subsidize businesses with corporate welfare, who refuse to pay a living wage.

We also need to bring down housing costs, be if rent or buying. Otherwise we will continue to see people emigrate.

I look at jobs ads with these massive requirements but meh salaries it's no wonder they can't find people.

Govt it's doing nothing about housing. Other than make it worse.

A good IT degree is much higher level L8 than an apprenticeship L6. It's a very different thing. No doubt there are excellent and mediocre people in both.