Suomeksi

Many of us probably know how it feels to go on interviews and not getting the job. Especially if you just moved to Ireland and don’t have any contacts with anyone who could help you or someone who could recommend you to your future boss and for your job. And of course it is always the issue how good you speak English and have you got any working experience in Ireland. Also employer doesn’t want to hire people who have moved to Ireland just for year or two, except if that’s what they are looking for.

Then the outcome of this is that qualified teachers and nurses etc. will have to work as a waiter/ess, au pair and cleaners or so on with long working hours and under paid.

Inflation is pressuring same as rent and other bills, and not to mention that people would like to save some money as well. More of the factories are moving abroad and people will move back to their homeland because of the jobs. That, if anything, will leave sour taste in Irish people mouths about foreigners. And what will happen to those foreigners who will stay in Ireland, and with what we can promise equality between foreigners and Irish in interviews?

Are there not enough jobs or is it because I am not from here? You always hear Irish people saying that they don’t have anything against foreigner and foreigners say the opposite. What is the truth? Maybe it is half of that and half of this or maybe one side is right.

My own story ends from being qualified care assistant, for people with severe disability or illness, to childminder in private home with not so good salary and without any contract. I don’t have any promised amount of hours, without any notice period nor opportunity to go forwards on my career.

Well, all and all life feels like long holiday in Ireland if you remember to take everything out of your free time and when the opportunity strikes accept the good job and keep it!