Contractors can get €130k+ a year even at a fairly junior level. I know a few of them in Pfizer and Amgen
If you’re only earning €33k as an engineer then you’re either newly qualified or not very good.
Any job where you work with the public is worse than any job where you don’t.
Not listed – starting work in a bakery at three am.
18 euro per hour is about half of what you can get as an engineer, even as a graduate
Source: I’m an electrical engineer
Probably civil engineering?
I moved to Australia and just can’t move back based on salaries. Just terrible.
However, OP discounts future earnings of engineering. You get paid more with experience. Not so much as a baker
To the maker of the meme:
1. There are absolutely engineering jobs in Ireland that don’t require travel of 1 hour or by car. If you’re just looking at Dublin or maybe out in the sticks, maybe the 1 hour travel is needed but even still that’s doubtful.
2. That’s quite a low salary for an engineering job.
3. If you think being a baker isn’t stressful just because you don’t need a qualification/it’s a blue collar job, you’d be best to adjust your worldview. People don’t exactly take kindly to them superiority held by people with “professional” careers.
Ah, engineers and their spreadsheets. Decision made.
As someone that’s currently working in an engineering company… Go for it!
Engineer on 18 and hour? Multiply that by 2.
How about engineer at a bakery though.
Is it for sale ?
Class
7 hours per day, what paradise is this, ???
Any job or further learning advice for a level 7 mechanical engineer here?
Become a pornstar I think it’s the best job.
If you’re an engineer making 18 an hour you’re doing something very wrong.
Maybe I’m missing the joke, but €18 an hour is starting pay after graduating for an engineer. It then rises very steeply. Also wtf €8 an hour public transport vs free for baker. I do fully realise I’m missing the joke, but still!
Do potatoes next
I’m literally considering taking a 10k pay cut to move to a job where I no longer have to work 12 hour alternating day/night shifts because this job has fucked my mental and physical health that much.
r/simpleliving
I quit my software engineering job a few weeks ago. Was earning 60k. Haven’t gone back to work yet but if I do it likely won’t be software. The money was comfortable but the pressure and environment was killing me.
I don’t think I’m cut out for baking though .
me: I JUST WANT STAY AT HOME AND NO WORKING!!!
WHO CREATED WORK????
The bakery pph is wrong, it lists 91/7.33 but the daily wage is 80.5 so its 80.5/7.33= 10.98
A next to useless correction but im a pedantic prick sometimes
This is great! I actually thought I was one of a handful that dreams of working in a bakery.
It’s the same here in the states, especially in California, shit my dad made the mistaken of moving us from Mexico to the US, land of opportunity my ass.
But in all honesty, rather be a baker than an engineer, plus I love working with food
I’ve owned a bakery in Arizona for going on 27 years. You don’t know how many former business people and engineers come in and say, “I’ve always wanted to work in a bakery! I’m like, “Are you fucking nuts?”They saw a fun bakery show on TV and are oblivious to the hours and hours of work that is never shown.
What’s this 7 hour work day business?
I once walked in to a bakery in Paris on a Sunday morning to the most incredible smell and watched a young guy in the back preparing bread, and immediately questioned all of my life decisions.
I never thought about reducing my salary by the amount it cost to get to work. I don’t know how to quantify the stress. However I suppose a small bakery would not be like the crazy anti-work stuff where bosses are messaging you at all hours of the night to come in and bake some donuts.
As a South African about to finish my MechEng degree, and as someone who has wanted to move to Ireland for quite some time, what’s the job prospects like in Ireland? In South Africa it’s next to impossible to find an unpaid internship so I can only imagine how hard it is going to be to find a job.
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Contractors can get €130k+ a year even at a fairly junior level. I know a few of them in Pfizer and Amgen
If you’re only earning €33k as an engineer then you’re either newly qualified or not very good.
Any job where you work with the public is worse than any job where you don’t.
Not listed – starting work in a bakery at three am.
18 euro per hour is about half of what you can get as an engineer, even as a graduate
Source: I’m an electrical engineer
Probably civil engineering?
I moved to Australia and just can’t move back based on salaries. Just terrible.
However, OP discounts future earnings of engineering. You get paid more with experience. Not so much as a baker
To the maker of the meme:
1. There are absolutely engineering jobs in Ireland that don’t require travel of 1 hour or by car. If you’re just looking at Dublin or maybe out in the sticks, maybe the 1 hour travel is needed but even still that’s doubtful.
2. That’s quite a low salary for an engineering job.
3. If you think being a baker isn’t stressful just because you don’t need a qualification/it’s a blue collar job, you’d be best to adjust your worldview. People don’t exactly take kindly to them superiority held by people with “professional” careers.
Ah, engineers and their spreadsheets. Decision made.
As someone that’s currently working in an engineering company… Go for it!
Engineer on 18 and hour? Multiply that by 2.
How about engineer at a bakery though.
Is it for sale ?
Class
7 hours per day, what paradise is this, ???
Any job or further learning advice for a level 7 mechanical engineer here?
Become a pornstar I think it’s the best job.
If you’re an engineer making 18 an hour you’re doing something very wrong.
Maybe I’m missing the joke, but €18 an hour is starting pay after graduating for an engineer. It then rises very steeply. Also wtf €8 an hour public transport vs free for baker. I do fully realise I’m missing the joke, but still!
Do potatoes next
I’m literally considering taking a 10k pay cut to move to a job where I no longer have to work 12 hour alternating day/night shifts because this job has fucked my mental and physical health that much.
r/simpleliving
I quit my software engineering job a few weeks ago. Was earning 60k. Haven’t gone back to work yet but if I do it likely won’t be software. The money was comfortable but the pressure and environment was killing me.
I don’t think I’m cut out for baking though .
me: I JUST WANT STAY AT HOME AND NO WORKING!!!
WHO CREATED WORK????
The bakery pph is wrong, it lists 91/7.33 but the daily wage is 80.5 so its 80.5/7.33= 10.98
A next to useless correction but im a pedantic prick sometimes
This is great! I actually thought I was one of a handful that dreams of working in a bakery.
It’s the same here in the states, especially in California, shit my dad made the mistaken of moving us from Mexico to the US, land of opportunity my ass.
But in all honesty, rather be a baker than an engineer, plus I love working with food
I’ve owned a bakery in Arizona for going on 27 years. You don’t know how many former business people and engineers come in and say, “I’ve always wanted to work in a bakery! I’m like, “Are you fucking nuts?”They saw a fun bakery show on TV and are oblivious to the hours and hours of work that is never shown.
What’s this 7 hour work day business?
I once walked in to a bakery in Paris on a Sunday morning to the most incredible smell and watched a young guy in the back preparing bread, and immediately questioned all of my life decisions.
I never thought about reducing my salary by the amount it cost to get to work. I don’t know how to quantify the stress. However I suppose a small bakery would not be like the crazy anti-work stuff where bosses are messaging you at all hours of the night to come in and bake some donuts.
As a South African about to finish my MechEng degree, and as someone who has wanted to move to Ireland for quite some time, what’s the job prospects like in Ireland? In South Africa it’s next to impossible to find an unpaid internship so I can only imagine how hard it is going to be to find a job.