No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

whelan2 · 08-08-2024 10:46pm

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She paid for it all herself

wrangler · 08-08-2024 11:07pm

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The financial problems of young people now is that most squander money for the first ten years after leaving school and then wonder why they cant afford a house. There is no more a housing problem now than there was when my age group was getting married

Tileman · 08-08-2024 11:13pm

that’s not the issue. Even the ones with money can’t get housing .

Anyway they are dead right to travel/ you only live once and they should do as much as possible before settling down and having family or concentrating on career.
wish I had done more

wrangler · 08-08-2024 11:34pm

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If they had sense, they'd have a house, If they don't travel they have litters of children before they're 25, they can't have it both ways. I know parents that won't let them back once they leave home.

Suckler · 08-08-2024 11:59pm

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If you ignore all the facts and wish to engage in a 'bloody youth of today rant' then yeah you're dead right……

Odelay · 09-08-2024 12:17am

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Lord bless. The days when you could buy a site for €5k and whack up a bungalow. Do you think the building, planning, county council fees, tightening of cash for direct labour, VAT and other regulation have not changed ever so slightly since then?

Jack98 · 09-08-2024 12:20am

I have a friend who just left for Sydney traveling across Asia for 3 months first now, out of college 2 years and was on 65k this past year and 55k in his first year with all accomodation paid for by company and company vehicle and fuel card, he got a loan from credit union of a couple of k to make sure he had 10k in the bank when he left. I was in shock when he said he’d to get a loan to make sure he’d 10k when he was leaving he went on a load of holidays the past two years but Jesus where did that money go when his only expense during the weeks working was feeding himself.

There is very few my age (mid 20s) left around, I’m still living at home and have no intention heading off to aus did a fair share of traveling and living abroad in my college years. I’m paying into a pension since I started working after college that the company match and saving a considerable amount every month while paying towards a land loan also.
I don’t think any of the young people who couldn’t save money here will do any better abroad even though a lot do work they’d never dream of doing here abroad, most are only going for the lifestyle for a few years but by the time they’re home they’ll be trying to start a career 5 years later than those who stayed.

My two cents

Suckler · 09-08-2024 12:59am

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Sure young wans just spend it all on avacados and take away coffee….

green daries · 09-08-2024 1:31am

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Some actually do 😁

straight · 09-08-2024 6:54am

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I could have written that exact comment 20 years ago. Mid 40's now... Travelled loads over a few weeks every year but kept the job and kept saving away. It all paid off in the end.

There was some amount of girls doing traffic control in Nz/Aus when I visited. They wouldn't dream of doing it here.

carrollsno1 · 09-08-2024 10:43am

Came home home at 25 started a trade will be mid next year again im fully signed off due to lack of training facilities. Saved a nice bit the first 2 years due to Covid then had about a years run of bad luck/college/flatweeks and spent the back end of laat year trying to make up for that and was near burnout due to it. Came back from the second block of college a month ago and got given (hadnt to ask and not entitled to it) the qualified rate since then. Finally bacķ on track now and off to college in January again gonna put the head down till then plenty of OT on offer at the minute, i still get a shock when i see the payslip these last few weeks ive schoolmates with degrees not getting a smell of it. Fair enough there not broke up and not doing savage commuting either. Still reckon Australia is still on the cards when im qualified as even though the moneys great here at the moment i just cant see myself making a go of it here, ill be 31 about when i get back out there at this rate so im still young enough to get going over there too.

davidk1394 · 09-08-2024 11:17am

Went down to the Fleadh in Wexford Monday and Tuesday, we went up around Wicklow on Tuesday evening and Wednesdy. Back to work yesterday, I was fencing away and tripped over a stone the size of a golf ball yesterday evening and ended up spraining my ankle. Hobbling around on crutches since yesterday evening. I'm lucky i have someone with me to milk and my dad can look after the stock

green daries · 09-08-2024 11:58am

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I've a second cousin who is a doctor in his thirties wife has a good job in her thirties . They have no car no house no savings worth talking about .......they have bought a flat abroad two months ago in wife's home country..... his father had to pay the deposit his brother and sisters cannot fathom what they have done with their money...… there only commitment is a cat ....

older by the day · 09-08-2024 12:49pm

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And the worse thing about it is that, anyone who will see you on crutches will think you strained yourself fighting or was langers, at the Fleadh

jimmy G M · 09-08-2024 1:04pm

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I remember watching some financial guru on Youtube talking about why people were short of money. He put it down to one or a combination of 3 things. "Too much house, too much car or too much lifestyle". I have to say it struck a chord with me.

roosterman71 · 09-08-2024 2:57pm

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They're snorting it.

Had it near me too. Young lad, brains to burn. Did college, masters, doctorite. Was working and lecturing then part time. Parents were telling me he was pulling in over 100k/year. Lived at home. Didn't go wild on pints on the weekend. Had no partner. No car - used the train to Dublin or borrowed the mothers. Mother got a goo at his bank balance one day and couldn't understand why there was so little in it and lots of cash withdrawals. He's in an addiction centre now and apparently owes a fortune to dealers.

enricoh · 09-08-2024 4:05pm

Was a site engineer in Dublin during the Celtic tiger. Outta college on e500 a week. Had to fold off the payslips off printer yoke n fold em n hand out to the lads Friday mornings.

Being of an inquisitive nature I'd have a goo at who was making what! Lads on a grand a week and they'd be looking for a sub off me on Tuesday!

Any of the foreign lads or lads off farms were good with cash- sandwiches with them etc. The dubs were unbelievable, they couldn't spend it quick enough!

There was more drugs sold on that site on a Friday morning than any nightclub in the country. Lads heading home the weekend n taking orders for half the village.

148multi · 09-08-2024 4:47pm

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And that debt won't be written down

Birdnuts · 09-08-2024 5:25pm

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If i had my time again I would like something like an Ice Road Trucker, Oil rigs in Africa or Wildlife Vet(with heli licence) in same. Something like 6months on, 6 months off. Think I'd rather die young then do a 9-5 office gig with commuting into Dublin - grim, grim, grim !!

carrollsno1 · 09-08-2024 5:33pm

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See it myself on the site im on the fellas from more rural/farming stock are way more steady. Not just the dubs but fellas from smaller country towns with us would be fairly bad cases at times bumming smokes on Tuesday mornings as they havent a bean left till Wednesday night, one fella nearly had a breakdown one week our wages were a day later than usual same fella is living with mammy mid 30s and would surely clear €900ish most weekd. Gave up buying lunches myself too this year makes a noticeable difference each week. Online gambling is a big thing on our site too, id have the odd flutter myself or enter the odd competition but one fella told us he was down over €3k on one weekend alone backing horses.

Suckler · 09-08-2024 6:11pm

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I worked on an oil refinery in Iraq, the guys did 4 week rotations. Worked well; some missed xmas/weddings/birthdays etc. but seemed to take the rough with the smooth and loved it. Then it was moved to 6+2 weeks off. Now that was rough. You work 7 days a week 12-14 hours a day for 6 weeks, two weeks wasn't enough. Lads generally spent 2-3 days of the 14 off travelling.