Internships are a complete joke, they are taking advantage of the unemployed and taking up what would have been actual jobs. Hopefully this is not true in all cases.

Aah now, thats not true. Employers win as they have their wage bill footed by the taxpayer and the Govt win because it helps them message the unemployment figures. As for the losers, well… as long as me and mine are ok then what does it matter.

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Should have made it clearer. We have a youth entrepreneurial course where i work.

How are you only making 3 euro an hour im confused

Really Jay, you actually expect me to go in to detail with someone who I don’t know what I get paid and how that works out. But I will explain briefly. Seanad TDs get 63 euro a day to get to work ok, for every night I go to work Joan b takes a chunk of what I earn on that night off me, she used not take in to account if I worked a Sunday, so if you take into account the amount of day I work, the amount of hours and the big chunk of my wages that gets taken off me, it works out at about 3 euro an hour and I would be getting paid a good bit above min wage, I don’t mind when I work I get docked, makes sense, but the Sundays were a huge bonus to me and helped me pay bills etc. it prob not as financially bad for me as this is for many young people my age looking after children having a family to care for, in sure this will make a huge difference to there already very unsustainable income. That an ok answer for you Jay you hardly expect me to go into my personal finances with you.

No julie nobody expects you to go through your personel finances but youve made a statement claiming your paid 3 euro an hour which unless your sending this email from a different country its inpossible

In relation to the rest of your comment im assuming your reciving assistance from the goverment ( the very government you hate). Well te fact that sundays were exempt from the system was a discrace anyway it ment that people were allowed work 3 days actually were working. 4. Ans in some cases coming out with the same money as someone working 5 days … Explaing how thats fair . Or is your obvious feeling of self entitelment getting in the way of the obvious

Believe me jay what I get from the state is minimal . Yes lots of people hate this government your point is. That is what it work out at roughly. Okay so your argument is your going to compare me to someone working full time, I would love to be working fulltime, but that is impossible. As I said earlier it won’t effect me financially as bad as a family who will now see more of a cut in their wages meaning they have less money to feed their kids and heat the house. Also they want to keep youth in employment, that is a disincentive to stay in work or stay here. Slave labour rates, just like the internships and apprenticeships they have young people doing, I have my degree I have my education done when is their going to be a job around for me besides more education. I have my education.

You get state minimum SO WAT. You still recieve assistance from them to help you get by if they decide to chance the terms of the assistance to make it farer on the tax payer and on the people who work Full time so be it . I think its very hypocrytical that you conplain about the government on this so much why they are paying you while you work then you conplain ecause tey day where you get paid time and a half you now have to class that as your working week … Well im sorry thats life. Moat od us in the real world think thats reasonable … And as for your 3 euro nonsence stick to facts itll make what your saying sound half respectable

Oh jay do you really think the government are cutting me to make it fairer really. Okay and look you always resort to personal , it not a me against you thing going on here, that loss of money will have a devastating effect on some families, you do know POVERTY look up poverty, has had a increase in Ireland. It won’t have as bad effect on me, will make things difficult, but don’t for one second think they did it for your benefit. Your spelling went a bit all over the place there don’t know what you were trying to say,most private sector don’t pay time and a half on Sundays anymore, and public sector they doing the same trying to take away there overtime and extras.you would reckon I was awarding myself a salary of 2000 a week and giving out about losing my phone allowance, maybe you don’t understand people in low income or even middle same as people unemployed can afford anymore cuts. as always jay your crazy rants were a great way to start my morning.

Julie i cane from povety we were actually dirt poor my mother raised 5 of us on her own so i k ow what it is only to well but the diff between me and people like you is i know im entitled to nothing in life. me like most people are one or two paychecks away from poverty . Without welfare my childhood would have been a whole lot worse but you can be sure i never ever hear my mother or anyone like her complain about the government like you do

a lot of people did my mom grew up in a three bedroom house with 8 brothers and sisters, was no walk in the park, my grandad worked in the ESB and got a good enough wage enough to eat and keep warm they were not entitled to books, transport to school, medical cards, so they struggled along with my grandads wage but they never begrudged the neighbour who didn’t have a job and had to take welfare, which is kinda what you are doing now, we are all getting screwed together, I can’t get a full time job but if I had one and you didn’t, if we were in different positions I would be angry that they took your Sunday and I would be angry that I am paying more taxes but I would not turn on you you didn’t cause this I would turn on the people who put both of us in this situation. Yes your mother didn’t give out about government it was a different society people didn’t know the extent of what they were up to. Look at what they have done and are still doing jay, that wasn’t a good deal, they doing the same as FF it pretty clear.

Fact of the matter is you claim more than you contrabute and yet you still complain

Fact of the matter is jay, that is because the government have been inflicting austerity measures on me and you which is not leading to any growth and meaning I have NO option to contribute. There is no work here for me. I didn’t want to finish college and sign on, I wanted to work make a wage, just like my sister who was made to feel like a sponger because she couldn’t find work, she is now happy in oz with her wildlife biology degree working, hopefully I will be too but jay I don’t want to be claiming, I want to be working and I get people who work get frustrated because they hitting ye hard and ye have to work hard and their cutting and cutting but I did nothing to cause that , I can do nothing to fix it, so can we just stop turning on each other and look at the guys who are doing this and ask yourself are they really trying their best to get us out of this situation, no THEIR MAKING IT WORSE.

Maybe of we all looked at them guys instead of each other we might all realise we are being made fools of and put and end to it, just a thought.

Whats your alternative to austerity? Another hyper i flated boom to keep us all working

Jay there has to be an alternative to something that isn’t working otherwise things will just get worse here, I think a good alternative it not a quick fix but it will lead to an improvement from what is happening at the moment is stop paying toxic bank debt that wasn’t mine and wasn’t yours and start investing it in the domestic economy to stimulate growth, if we keep going down this road of austerity with tiny growth what is going to be the outcome where are we heading with austerity budget on top of austerity budget the bondholders are doing fine. I know we have to pay our sovereign debt every country has to but maybe just maybe if we weren’t incurring all these banking debts we would have more money to invest in the economy, generating growth an jobs and making it easier to pay sovereign debt back.

That’s the spirit

Well according to your Twitter Michael you’re enquiring about postal costs for a product to Ireland. Buy local if you really have any interest in Irish job creation ;)

Actually there are jobs here – many of which cannot be filled and people have to be brought in to fill these vacancies. Surely so what we need us a lot more training, retraining and upskilling rather thsn encouraging peopke to throw in the towel.

Actually Gerry apprenticeships apprenticeships are a waste of time and financial resources as the industry has collapsed. Traineeships for the retail industry is a market that’s over saturated. Mickey Mouse six weeks courses are going to make feck all difference. FAS has already witnessed huge cuts in staff and funding. Fiddles from higher management haven’t helped. Perhaps the government could create jobs that these young people could be trained for?

Lots of jobs in I.T just have to be interested / passionate in the field. We had a couple going but the quality of people was a real let down. Lots of people come here from all over to work and find a job easy enough. Thats why i think its all about drive/passion.

Btw i did a mickey mouse fas course , while not intensive it did put me on the path to what i wanted to do. Just took over a year worth of freelance/apprenticeships well worth it though

@ gerry
This isnt true that we have to seek immigrants to fill jobs. 5 years ago maybe but not now. Sure you’ll find isolated cases where languages can be benefit but these are predominately low skill call centre jobs that make up a tiny % of jobs on offer. The problem is we have nearly 1/2 million unemployed competing for few jobs not unemployable with lack of skills competing for lots of jobs.

bricklayers, plasters, electricians & plummers apprenticeships only make sense if there is prospects in those fields unless we are training these people to work abroad. As we are currently doing with our degree students.

In short we need to stimulate the economy to generate job creation.

I’ve no issue with training and its good thing to do anyway but we must be realistic it doesn’t create jobs.

many of those jobs need high levels of proficiency in languages or IT, something that isnt going to be fixed with retraining but with a fundamental change at primary and secondary school level

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