Relief milking- is it worth it?

Milking cows must be one of the few jobs where you are not paid d for training. Imagine your child starting in a pub or restaurant and being told they had to work for a week or so training unpaid

Its the farmer that picks the days he wants relief in. I will be mostly weekends except when he wants to go to Cheltenham or the Galway races

I would say here where it is suggested that as the OP does not appear experienced in milking they are going to have to look to gain experience in this by offering yourself free, to gain a understanding of the job.

Gaining experience milking sounds a lot like training to me.

It would depend. Why would you pay some randomer who has never milked a cow, but has some vague idea that they want to give it a go, to stand in your way in a pit and watch you milking because they want to build up this 100 hours experience quoted above. It would be different if you have a local fella who is already helping you out with other stuff and wants to give it a go maybe.

Friend is getting his heavy truck licence paid for his employer. Your employer if you are directly employed pay for all safety courses and at present because of full employment will take you on without any safety certificates and get you on the fastest SP course available.

Even the private bus companies are.now training bus drivers. Retaining them is the problem for them.

Also milking is low paid low skill work. Nobody expects low pay workers to be unpaid while getting minimal training. Than god we are from the so called graduate programs

Define low payed low skilled work, with the quality standards co-ops are enforcing at the minute it's anything but, had what could best be described as a clown here last summer relief milking he cost us the best part if 5k in milk quality fines and mastitis issues, and was getting 70 euro a milking for his troubles, was relief milking the past 10 years and still was a disaster

Not paid to train up in the parlour?

Don't entertain a man who doesn't pay you, especially in an area crying out for labour such as dairy.

I will milk Mon to Friday this week. Both times. I charge 750 euros for that and have most of the day to my own place.

I view it as worth it.

The major different categories of work are ( there will be sub categories within these)

Professional ( Doctor, nurse, engineer etch) it takes a professional qualification for to do the job

Skilled( plasterer, chef, mechanic) it takes a 3-4 year training period often on the job when you will be on a training rate.

Semi skilled ( drivers bus, digger, heavy haulage window fitter handyman etc) training often takes 3-6 months

Low or unskilled often refered to as a General operative. The skill for the job can be attained in a short period ( 10-20 hours or within a month) and minimal over seeing after the training period. I think.milking cows falls into this category.

In any work categories you will find people that do not the job properly from Surgeons to believe it or not relief milkers.

I agree with you. However this started from what seemed was an expectation that a person should do something for nothing until they were trained. And yes maybe at the start a lad would be on a training rate. However remember that minimum wage legislation abolished training rates for over 20 year Olds

There is a difference between a lad coming looking for experience and expecting lads to train themselves for a low skilled job.

Your situation is different as you already know those things and - more importantly - have an idea of what you are getting into.

That nuisance that came into us that one time was never going to stick at it. Not that he would have been doing any for us anyway. He just had no idea of what it was he was going to try until he tried it.

I disagree, it is a low skilled job. The premium pay associated with it is due to multiple factors which you highlighted. Unsocial hours from the point that it mostly Saturdays Sundays that DF's will require you, work shifts are short which mean a lot of wasted time for the worker( traveling to and from the job), if worker is required for both milking shifts are 8-10 hours apart. There is also the other factor if you are hold down another job you need to probably go home and shower before you go to that workplace.

Because of these factors and as well because a worker who is not diligent can cause the loss of thousands of euro as @jaymla627 pointed out

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