Where have all the workers gone?

It's taken a long time but even some 'I'm alright Jack' type parents are beginning to question why their kids can't leave home etc. Just check out the slow and steady reduction in % support for FFG. More and more are finally waking up, and having housing policies that appear to only have the sole goal, and that's to keep property prices high? WTF!!

Yes, many other Anglosphere cities are experiencing similar problems but find me anywhere with the level of dysfunction that there is in the Dublin market. Really impacting on the jobs market now. It's not as if government weren't warned about this either.

Medium to long term solution is to invest outside of the Greater Dublin area.

A huge problem is too many shite 3rd level courses. People are being sold a little of the “be what ever you want to be”. Sure but you will be unemployed or badly paid following your media degree or masters on Harry Potter or whatever.

All the video shared of the Garda being abused by **** must be a subconscious turn off from a young age to Garda entry.

But teaching…….:I know you won’t be killed with money, especially in Dublin, but anywhere else in the country it’s a glorious job due to the hours.

2 massive world renowned cities. Of course they’re going to be expensive.

I did a quick random Daft search. In Carlow town, there’s 1 rental available. Mullingar there’s 9 at an average of €1300 a month. 4 in Killarney at an average of €1300 a month. Shannon, 1 apartment €1300 a month.

Kensington, walking distance to the CBD in Sydney. Over 800 available. Like Drumcondra, except nice. Similar pricing to down the country in Ireland. And wages are a lot higher in Aus.

https://www.realestate.com.au/rent/in-kensington,+nsw+2033/list-1

Saw a degree in influencing advertised during the week.

It should not be surprising, and it should be welcomed.

"Influencing" is just another aspect of the ongoing evolution of marketing and media.

It should be part of the education of someone looking to work in marketing or media.

Anyone wasting their time on useless courses like this shouldn’t qualify for any grants or government help.

No different from a journalism or media course. Plenty of money to be made considering traditional media is circling the drain.

How many people under 30 buy newspapers or watch the news on TV, or even watch broadcast TV at all?

I have a bit of a maybe unique take on this, as a society we have become well-off enough to not need to work as much as we used to, with more individuals opting to work less than full time, more rejecting careers with unsocial hours ( a shortage of chefs, nurses, and care workers ) because they have the choice to do so.

Then there is the perfecting society issue, we rarely hear of bad teachers anymore for the simple reason that it is harder to get away with a drinking problem or similar nowadays because there is too much monitoring and paperwork ( thanks to the invention of the computers and the internet ) the downside of having to sparkle all the time is individuals looking to work part-time. When they raised the age for joining the Garda loads with families gave up jobs and took out loans to join the lure of the permanent and pensionable, today it is not the career it used to be because of the expectations and the monitoring and the expectation to sparkle all the time, it's the same with all jobs. We have become a well-off comfortable society we can import people to do the low-paid jobs we don't like.

Changes in family life, I had a conversation with someone I know recently about this, their father was a Garda, and their mother a nurse and they had a large family the only activities they did were GAA and Irish dancing parents didn't go with them they were giving the 30p and sent off by themselves, when the oldest was a teenager they were left minding the others and were told lock the door and don't let anyone in. These were middle-class people.

Today parents are expected to always be psychologically present for their children, to go to all activities with them to be involved in their children's lives, it is impossible to be in a job where you are expected to work full time and parent like that so people are opting for part-time work.

However, its mostly has to do with wealth as a society we are wealthy enough to have choices around working.

Try do it and see if you call it glorious.

I have and I preferred it tbh. School in it's current format would wear you down and ultimately break you....and it's just getting ever more ridiculous as far as I can see.

It's cunty in the real world too, and all different kinds of cuntiness but I honestly believe the majority of people who think being a teacher is a cushy number would change their tune if they had to do it (and I mean do it for real not try it for a week or two and try it in your bog standard average school warts and all, not harry potters private boarding school although they probably have a different set of fuckologies to contend with ) there are an ever increasing number of either morons or loons/fantasists to contend with that only have your worst interests at heart and that's just your management "team" and various department organisations.

Now I suppose horses for courses, you see some who appear un ground down by it.......but they ain't the majority and glorious it is most definitely not.

Honestly, grass isn't always greener.

Excuse me. Influencing course will be tough. Only the strong will survive. In a few years(8 minutes) it'll be as honest, difficult and logical as gender studies!