Jobs without a degree

Do a History degree. You will learn something relevant.

Or study English for 3 years. Learn poems and wisdom, you will need those things when you are trying to carve out a living.

Don't join the Civil Service as an employee after you are 30. The real lifers will never take to you, and you will spend 20 years of your working life getting patronised by wasters. Granted you will get a guaranteed pension, heart trouble from eating free, over salted sandwiches and the added bonus of not being listened to, or worse still, blatantly undermined, by a clique of gormless arseholes who have the entire job sown up. Those dicks are all over it. But if you are not in by 30 forget about it. They will exclude you from everything, they couldn't have you showing them up. They will get you subtly as a wack over the head with a claw hammer. Exclude you from strategy meetings. Only loop you in on the away day at the last minute. Minimum pay rises, with massive scrutiny, wait till you start getting marginalised for doing good work. Last offer on summer holidays, you get the picture?

If you really want to see how the civies bum our euros, you need to get yourself into HR consulting. That is where all the smart leaches are. Faffing around seminars in Gothenburg, liaising with the Anderson Group think tank. Rolling out "The Proactive Reform Employment Strategy" or ... PRES every 5 years. That is where some SEO on 92 grand a year gets a 7 grand golf trip from his wife's lover, who also happens to have a real job in the private sector on Hardcore street. This is where the Civil Servants get their useless asses oiled up for a hammering bigtime. I love it when they start reclassifying the expense code from Legal Fees to Appointment Costs... to Appropriation Costs... to Staff Enrollment fund ....... as opposed to calling it 7 figures of consulting fees every 12 months to buffer the coffers of the private sector. At least someone is getting paid?

If you can handle being a Yacht Club bore, you might have at least half a chance of making it on Hardcore street. You can tag along in your local GAA, Golf or Rugby club. As long as you can handle the drama of all that. But you will need to do those things, or the bores will classify you as an odd ball and start spreading ugly rumours about you.... the Hardcore Street rumour mill resembles the attrition incurred by the poor men of the Maginot line in WW1. It is a constant spat of Irish Times readers talking shight about sports stars they are acquainted with, whilst spewing lies about the time such and such ...and such and such rode the hole off each other during the Microsoft Audit in 2015. It never stops. Throw in the Insurance tyrants, who btw I read some drone above ... recommending a degree course for ? What? as the mighty John McEnroe often cranked " you cannot be serious? " .... I learnt about insurance and all its many made up rules when I was 14 years old in Bus Org class, before the Junior Cert was even conceived, back when you could get the bus to London from Busaras 7 nights a week... back when you could buy a bag of apples for a quid. Or when WANG computers existed.

Do History or English ... or if you have the aptitude a LANGUAGE or a SCIENCE. Do something useful, for YOUR future , trust me on this, NOBODY ELSE WILL , believe me please mortals. I might spend all afternoon crying in my lair, but I see it all , every bit of it.

Easter Eggs are the price of 2-3 pints. If there was to be a revoutlion in Ireland, I would line up all those overpaid pen pushing Gout maligned excuses for 157k a year and a pension and a clothing allowance that no ones ever talks about.... and make them eat every Easter Egg on the island in one revolting gag induced sitting, just to show them what it is like to have to witness their meaningless, meddling existence every hour of the day? The same stooges spend more time sniggering at knackers and negligently educated compatriots, than they actually do running the country for the 7 and a half hours they are supposed to a day?

Enjoy your studies, I would recommend analysing the myth of Grainne Mhaol and the feasibility of her actually being Elizabeth Tudor in disguise. Stanger things have happened.