Laureati irlandesi: “Tutti quelli che conosco stanno pensando di trasferirsi all’estero o se ne sono andati”
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2025/12/01/finding-graduate-jobs-pretty-much-everyone-i-know-is-thinking-of-moving-abroad-or-has-gone-already/
di Banania2020
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The degrees listed in the article by the people who struggled to find work here are:
– Commerce (applying for jobs after a 6 month gap)
– Arts
– A “Science” degree (it’s bio science, or bio pharma, isn’t it?)
– Psychology
When i graduated 20 years ago, students did this, when my siblings graduated years before and after students did this.
Irish grads have and always will travel after college, its nothing new.
I’m in my 50s. For most of Irelands history emigration was the path for Irelands young. It was only from the late 1990s to 2008 that this reversed. Then more emigrated.
Then it stabilised and the population increased
So let’s not pretend this is unique.
If I was a young person today I’d organise a huge housing protest that would occur every weekend.
Moaning here will have no effect.
To be fair to the government a lot is being done but not enough.
A huge protest is needed.
Not moaning here
Let’s be real the net migration data is a serious issue and a lot of people are too virtual signaling to even see or speak about it.
Edit: preempting anyone coming for me, I’m biracial Irish
Layoffs, Capitalism, Large Landlords buying up housing wholesale, NIMBYs, AI bubble, and dated tech interview procedures have nothing to do with this, IT’S JUST BLOODY IMMIGRANTS 🤣
>Aoife Hanrahan
This is a very weird one to use.
She had a good job here, left it because she didnt get on.with her boss.
Went to Australia, seemingly couldn’t get a job there, and is now unemployed in the Netherlands.
It really seems like immigration hasnt worked out for her.
Look, Irish people tend to move to cities with the exact same problem as Ireland as. Emigration is just in our DNA at this stage and a right of passage
I’m an Irish graduate and I live abroad –
An article aimed at finding people who have felt the need to go abroad will …find people who fit that profile. I have two nephews who graduated in the last few years. Both have good jobs. So it isn’t literally everyone. But that’s not to say it isn’t an issue.
The thing is these countries that these people are moving have the same exact issues as Ireland does, almost everywhere in the western world has the same exact problems right now. Housing is expensive as fuck, young people can’t be independent, both renting or buying.
And don’t tell me that “yeah but Ireland is worse” no it’s not. Go live in Portugal, Canada or Italy and try to be independent with their local money, is the same shitshow if not worse.
At least in Ireland we have a lot of programs / schemes that help people like Help to Buyer Scheme, Affordable Scheme, First Time Buyer Scheme and Spring Board (college degrees for basically free and most of them 100% online), most of these countries don’t even have this as alternatives.
Now if you say to me that you move out of Ireland because the weather in other countries is nicer and the lifestyle is better then I totally agree. But cost of living? Everywhere is fucked up right now, literally.
I’ve been reading this same article for 20 years…
It’s Ireland.We have always had to leave for opportunity.