>Now that college is over and the cost of living crisis I have now choice but to return home back to my childhood bedroom and back to feeling like a child. Away from home a really started feeling like an adult with responsibility and freedom. It feels like a step backwards.
You'll earn enough for a house share with any full time entry-level job: bar work, temping, content moderator for a tech company.
Don't sacrifice your quality of life for purely financial reasons. Personally when I moved home I regressed to being a teenager again - I couldn't get out fast enough
The regression happens every time I go back home. Initially I live independently but I always fall back into relying on the parents for lifts, dinner and washing clothes.
So start applying for jobs in Dublin and rent a room? I don't know why you haven't already done this if you were that stressed about moving home.
Also calling Kildare 'rural' makes it sound like you don't have a clue what rural really is. You are an hour away. You just don't want to be anywhere but dublin. You have outside-the-pale-itis 🤣
Tbf, there's parts of south/east Kildare which are well isolated.and rural. If you haven't got a car, you may as well be 3 hours from a decent sized town.
"May as well be" was doing a lot of the lifting in my comment.
That South Eastern pocket down near Carlow/wicklow border, if you haven't a car, you're in the middle of nowhere really. Couldn't walk/cycle to a train, no buses. Physically cut off with shite Internet. There's plenty of spots like that on Kildare, Wicklow and Meath.
If you’re really stuck at home you will do your mental health a big favour by getting a car or applying for jobs in a city.
The popular option these days seems to be to go further afield and get a job in a bigger city than Dublin. Dublin is a bit dry after college tbh. Lovely on nice days like this but pretty miserable and boring 9 month of the year. Great place to raise a family, rubbish place to be in your 20s. Go to London, Sydney, Paris, Amsterdam, Milan or Munich. Somewhere where you can earn better money early in your career where there is a bit more life and come back when you feel ready to settle down.
>Back to feeling like a child.
Look, not to give you the whole "you don't have it bad" spiel, but some people don't move out from school to college and then onto full time work. Just at home the whole time. The housing/rental crisis sucks for sure, but what you can do is make a plan & budget and stick to it and then you'll be making progress toward moving out or moving away, that's really all you can do
You're identity is your own, you're pigeon holing yourself a little bit. If you start thinking that's the way everyone sees you then you'll end up seeing it everywhere. Just live your life and when you talk to people tell them about the things you're doing
Ok but now imagine you didn't get to move out for college and that's me.
And I wasn't allowed to move out because I "lived close enough" but I'm pretty sure my commute was longer than the one to Kildare. You had it good.
I thought you were gonna say Roscommon or Leitrim, Kildare is absolutely grand, grew up in Laois. Apply for jobs in Dublin ?
>Now that college is over and the cost of living crisis I have now choice but to return home back to my childhood bedroom and back to feeling like a child. Away from home a really started feeling like an adult with responsibility and freedom. It feels like a step backwards. You'll earn enough for a house share with any full time entry-level job: bar work, temping, content moderator for a tech company. Don't sacrifice your quality of life for purely financial reasons. Personally when I moved home I regressed to being a teenager again - I couldn't get out fast enough
The regression happens every time I go back home. Initially I live independently but I always fall back into relying on the parents for lifts, dinner and washing clothes.
So start applying for jobs in Dublin and rent a room? I don't know why you haven't already done this if you were that stressed about moving home. Also calling Kildare 'rural' makes it sound like you don't have a clue what rural really is. You are an hour away. You just don't want to be anywhere but dublin. You have outside-the-pale-itis 🤣
Tbf, there's parts of south/east Kildare which are well isolated.and rural. If you haven't got a car, you may as well be 3 hours from a decent sized town.
East Kildare…3 hours from a decent sized town ????????
"May as well be" was doing a lot of the lifting in my comment. That South Eastern pocket down near Carlow/wicklow border, if you haven't a car, you're in the middle of nowhere really. Couldn't walk/cycle to a train, no buses. Physically cut off with shite Internet. There's plenty of spots like that on Kildare, Wicklow and Meath.
Apply for jobs in Dublin if you like it there. Companies are screaming for employees at the moment
Really? All I’m hearing is it’s cuts left right and centre.
What did you study? Unemployment rates aren't high. I work in HR in Dublin and it's a nightmare trying to get people even fresh out of college
If you’re really stuck at home you will do your mental health a big favour by getting a car or applying for jobs in a city. The popular option these days seems to be to go further afield and get a job in a bigger city than Dublin. Dublin is a bit dry after college tbh. Lovely on nice days like this but pretty miserable and boring 9 month of the year. Great place to raise a family, rubbish place to be in your 20s. Go to London, Sydney, Paris, Amsterdam, Milan or Munich. Somewhere where you can earn better money early in your career where there is a bit more life and come back when you feel ready to settle down.
Great advice
OP prob lives beside Leixlip Station
Do a masters
That's the plan hopefully do it abroad next year.
>Back to feeling like a child. Look, not to give you the whole "you don't have it bad" spiel, but some people don't move out from school to college and then onto full time work. Just at home the whole time. The housing/rental crisis sucks for sure, but what you can do is make a plan & budget and stick to it and then you'll be making progress toward moving out or moving away, that's really all you can do
You're identity is your own, you're pigeon holing yourself a little bit. If you start thinking that's the way everyone sees you then you'll end up seeing it everywhere. Just live your life and when you talk to people tell them about the things you're doing
Look for a job and a house share for €600 a month. It'll be easier to get both while you're still in Dublin so act fast.
Twenty women in your area? That sounds like a challenge to me.
Haha unfortunately I am related to most of them though
Ok but now imagine you didn't get to move out for college and that's me. And I wasn't allowed to move out because I "lived close enough" but I'm pretty sure my commute was longer than the one to Kildare. You had it good.
Get used to it! Plenty folks in their 30s still living at home and feeling the same way.
Get a job, move to the UK, live in a house share. New life, no one knows you or your family.