Working in Ireland

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Would you do the commute weekly or daily?

I think the clue is A55 on a Friday night

[RSoles]

You may also find that the catamaran is only available for the 'summer' months.
They tend to mothball the Northern Ireland - Scotland ones betyween October and April.
Worth checking.

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You may also find that the catamaran is only available for the 'summer' months.
They tend to mothball the Northern Ireland - Scotland ones betyween October and April.
Worth checking.

This is true, I did this run several times Dec to Aug last year to avoid Ryanair, the Jonathan Swift thing is only summer, and flits between Dublin Port (no easy way out without tolls, designed to trick you onto the Dublin Port Tunnel and a 35 Euro Toll, think it's cheaper now) or Dun Laoighaire (can't spell it!) which is South Dublin with is fine for Sandyford, Donnybrook etc but crossing Dublin is always slow.

The proper ships are about 3.5 hrs I think, some absolute monsters, last one I took was 1500 cars and 250 Arctics. What a shiit journey that was (I took my car) bumped off two ferries onto this one 21:05 sailing with every other bumped off passenger, eventually got to Holyhead 01:05, with the smaller ferries still waiting to dock, weather too bad, force 8 gales, boat was jumping out the water and you could hear it slapping back in. Got job I'm never sear sick. Was very steady tho, had hydroplanes or something.

Windy on the A55, several lorries on their side, got to Flint, snowed like mad, couldn't see a freaking thing, Chester got the rain back, up the pennines mega-snow, M606 into Bradford again no road, just snow, into City Centre roads just mush, did a 180 spin in my car, no traffic tho, fecking woke me up that's for sure. Home in Leeds 5:30am.

6:00am flight back Mon morn, no more ferries!

[RSoles]

I think I might be tempted to fly Liverpool to Dublin, despite the A55.
I used to fly Belfast to Liverpool then drove to Bodelwyddan.
Too long ago to remember the drive time, but I did it Monday to Friday so can't have been more than an hour......

No rail or Luas between Dublin airport and city, but there are coaches.
Dublin is an expensive place to stay BTW, and rates, in my experience, are low - rock bottom.
I'd look East, rather than West.

I know guys from along the A55 (ok, not as far as Anglesey) with whom I've worked in Glasgow, midlands and the NE.

[Old Greg]

I think I might be tempted to fly Liverpool to Dublin, despite the A55.
I used to fly Belfast to Liverpool then drove to Bodelwyddan.
Too long ago to remember the drive time, but I did it Monday to Friday so can't have been more than an hour......

No rail or Luas between Dublin airport and city, but there are coaches.
Dublin is an expensive place to stay BTW, and rates, in my experience, are low - rock bottom.
I'd look East, rather than West.

I know guys from along the A55 (ok, not as far as Anglesey) with whom I've worked in Glasgow, midlands and the NE.

+ 1 Rates are poor in Dublin and the tax regime is disadvantageous if you're following the rules. The train service East from Holyhead and Bangor looks OK.

Bangor to London: 3h 20m
Bangor to Chester: 1h 5m

Go to Dublin if you fancy it, but you'd probably be in the City of London quicker, and think of the number of Fridays you could take off with the additional money earned.

[TBJ]

Cheers, some more good advice.

The rates are quite poor for what they expect, I have 15 years exp in web dev with ms stack and the best offer so far is €380. They say €500 on advert, but once they get you talking they go for the old I could get you a lot more interviews if you lower your rate etc.

I was contracting until about 10 years ago, then I have done 8 years permie as a hands on Head Of Development and the last two with my own little company, but am now hoping to go back contracting for the rest of my career. I will be 50 this year and still enjoy software dev and don't really want the responsibility of the senior roles. But I do wonder if the age will count against me!

Will prob stick this side of the Irish sea

[TheDandy]

Cheers, some more good advice.

The rates are quite poor for what they expect, I have 15 years exp in web dev with ms stack and the best offer so far is €380. They say €500 on advert, but once they get you talking they go for the old I could get you a lot more interviews if you lower your rate etc.

I was contracting until about 10 years ago, then I have done 8 years permie as a hands on Head Of Development and the last two with my own little company, but am now hoping to go back contracting for the rest of my career. I will be 50 this year and still enjoy software dev and don't really want the responsibility of the senior roles. But I do wonder if the age will count against me!

Will prob stick this side of the Irish sea

Why should age count against you. If you have all your faculties, can get to work each day, and can still cut it as a developer then what's the problem. It's not like you are after a career with you clients.

[TBJ]

Why should age count against you. If you have all your faculties, can get to work each day, and can still cut it as a developer then what's the problem. It's not like you are after a career with you clients.

I quite agree, but have been wondering if it would be a hurdle! Guess all developers get old eventually
Think many companies expect web devs to be under 30. And I hate it on job specs when it says "must have worked their way through the ranks" whats wrong with being a developer? In my experience it's sh1te in management with all that responsibility and not a lot more pay to show for it.

[BlasterBates]

I quite agree, but have been wondering if it would be a hurdle! Guess all developers get old eventually
Think many companies expect web devs to be under 30. And I hate it on job specs when it says "must have worked their way through the ranks" whats wrong with being a developer? In my experience it's sh1te in management with all that responsibility and not a lot more pay to show for it.

Age is not a problem. It just isn't