Maybe it is time to stop whinging, face reality and get on with it. A neighbour who was made redundant took the right attitude from the start.
He and his wife got out the paint brush and decorated rooms in the house. They have signed up to take in foreign language students over the summer. His own kids will spend the summer in tents and wooden houses in the back garden, which they love.
When the rush of summer students is over they will continue taking in one adult foreign language student out of season as he has a spare room. It is additional income coming in which will pay the bills while he continues looking for work.
I think this is a better alternative than ringing Joe Duffy and whinging that you are going to lose the apartment in Croatia
This statement is incorrect. As a doctor working in the Irish health system it is my experience that Irish nurses do not take bloods, cannulate patients or even give first doses of IV medications even if they have been on the relevant courses,it is done by junior doctors. If a porter is not available to bring a patient to theatre or to bring requests to the relevant departments then it is done by the junior doctor. The same applies if a phlebotomist or cardiac technician is similarly not available for whatever reason. I work approx 80 hours a week of which 25% of my time doing the above routine tasks ,40% of my time is spent on organising appointments/tests/chasing charts etc. The remainder of my working week is the clinical work I was trained for. Unlike others in the public system I do not want to work overtime. The 80 hours that I and other non-consultant doctors work provide basic medical cover in a Victorian health care system. This would not be so bad if the majority of my time was spent on clinical work.
Current HSE employee ratio is 49,000 management/administrative staff cater for 62,200 health workers. Of which less than 2000 are Consultants and approx 5000 non-consultant doctors. Quite a few departments such as radiology and pathology require little or no clerical support as they utilise “speech-to-text” software for reporting. One consultant requires one secretary ,one ward requires one ward clerk. I will leave to others to explain the 40,000+ managers and admin staff.
Maybe it is time to stop whinging, face reality and get on with it. A neighbour who was made redundant took the right attitude from the start.
He and his wife got out the paint brush and decorated rooms in the house. They have signed up to take in foreign language students over the summer. His own kids will spend the summer in tents and wooden houses in the back garden, which they love.
When the rush of summer students is over they will continue taking in one adult foreign language student out of season as he has a spare room. It is additional income coming in which will pay the bills while he continues looking for work.
I think this is a better alternative than ringing Joe Duffy and whinging that you are going to lose the apartment in Croatia
Some of us with the large recent mortgages have very tiny houses stuffed with a couple of kids! No room for students I'm afraid, and I can't put the kids in a tent in the garden as a) I don't have a garden (couldn't afford a house with one of those!) and, b) as they are babies the social services would have me arrested.
Still thinking of ways to make some money though, one small, rapidly diminishing wage is not covering much these days, but I'll come up with something......
You are all getting away from the original post.
Why is nobody suggesting that while this couple made all the right decisions regarding what they could afford they missed a crucial one.
They could not afford 3 kids and so they should not have had 3 kids. Now that they have had them they will have to make all of the necessary sacrifices that having that number of kids entails.
I was only able to afford one kid as I never expected that other people should pay to raise kids for me.
You dont collect your childrens allowance then..You are all getting away from the original post.
Why is nobody suggesting that while this couple made all the right decisions regarding what they could afford they missed a crucial one.
They could not afford 3 kids and so they should not have had 3 kids. Now that they have had them they will have to make all of the necessary sacrifices that having that number of kids entails.
I was only able to afford one kid as I never expected that other people should pay to raise kids for me.
Maybe we should either a) legalise abortion in this country, or b) means test people before they have sex?
You dont collect your childrens allowance then..maybe you could donate it to a more worthwhile cause..
Maybe we should either a) legalise abortion in this country, or b) means test people before they have sex?
So if you lose your job/take a massive pay cut, whatever, and your children need to eat you should......? Not have had them in the first place? Then perhaps its a time machine you need to invent!
That man with the quiet voice who does wildlife programmes touched on this subject on the BBC website just this week.OK, but job loss aside, what about people who have a couple of kids, find things are tight, have a few more, find themselves struggling but still think "Ah sure we'll just have another one" ?
Plenty of them around. IMO that attitude is simply grossly irresponsible, stupid bad parenting and plain selfish. In fact I think there was a thread a few months back that touched on a few real life examples like this.
". In many European countries the falling birthrate means that there is a looming crisis. .
You are all getting away from the original post.
Why is nobody suggesting that while this couple made all the right decisions regarding what they could afford they missed a crucial one.
They could not afford 3 kids and so they should not have had 3 kids. Now that they have had them they will have to make all of the necessary sacrifices that having that number of kids entails.
I was only able to afford one kid as I never expected that other people should pay to raise kids for me.
They predict that there will be 10 Billion people on the planet by the end of the century so I would not loose any sleep over that one.
#It has been a long time since I was entitled to Children's allowance but I have to say that you are correct. I did badly need it for the first couple of years and have to admit that I used it but after about four years when I was no longer in need of it I allowed someone else the use of it.
I think that it is a totally ridiculous payment and should be done away with immediately.
If you can not afford to raise children then you should not have them. You should not expect others to make sacrifices so that you can indulge in more kids when the population of the world is well past the point that it can support.
Just tax it!
At the moment the state takes a load of money from me in taxes and employs a load of people to give it back to me tax free... why?
Either don't take it in the first place or tax it but don't take it, provide a few jobs for the boys (and girls) and then give me back what's left.
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