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How can an American get a job as a ditch digger?
They say only Mexicans and illegals will do backbreaking manual labor. Screw that, I'm a poor college student and some of these jobs pay like $30 an hour! I'll do them and I speak English! So where can I, a legal English speaking American, get a job on a construction site or highway team or just digging holes in the ground for cash?
You don't dig ditches with a shovel and get 30 dollars an hour, typically it is done with heavy machinery and those are skilled positions, Construction is also skilled at nearly all levels, roofers, plumbers, painters electricians etc. Go around to construction sites and ask for work, you will start as a laborer picking up scraps and trash etc, you will not be paid much more than minimum wage. Good Luck..
No Pension in Irish Construction Industry - 7 Most Common Reasons
Pension's Tips: It is said that people either "live too long or die too young", and nowhere is this more typified than in the Construction Industry, where up to recently, both the safety record and the Pension planning record had been nothing short of appalling.
On the one hand, the fatality and injury record of workers in the Irish Building Industry was one of the highest in Europe (in 2001, 28% of all workplace fatalities were Construction Industry related), while those who were lucky enough to have survived working on Irish Construction sites faced a very uncertain future as they neared retirement.
While the authorities have made some strides in addressing the Construction Industries safety record in the recent past, there is still considerable scope for improvement with regard to adequate and proactive Pension Planning (in an IAPF survey dated October ,2005,it was found that nearly the entire Irish population was dependant on the state pension)While a recent IMPACT Trade Union report found that in Ireland, there are currently 5 people of working age for every person aged over 65, but that figure will fall to 2 to 1 by 2050,causing a huge funding crisis.
The lack of Pension planning is a symptom of a larger Irish malaise, namely their totally reactive nature to nearly everything. This especially applies to Construction Industry Pensions, where despite extensive publicity on the need for adequate Pension planning, the Pension expertise available and the negative effects of no Pensions being in place at retirement, excuses still abound for doing nothing. In an effort to be seen to do something, the Government is even rumored to being looking at making Pension funding compulsory.
In over 25 years of Pensions planning, here are the 7 most popular excuses I've come across in the Construction Industry for not planning a Pension.
* I can't afford it
* I'm too young/old
* "Someone else" will provide for it
* I'll do it "later"
* There's a state pension
* I don't want to think about it
* I'll be dead by then
I can't afford it -- expansive pension ......ask yourself can you afford NOT to? Waiting until you can afford it will never happen. The minimum monthly premium for a self employed Pension is €25 gross, or with tax relief at 20%, €20per month ......that's €1.00 per day. Given that the minimum Lottery ticket price is €1.50 per go, and there are absolutely no guarantees whatsoever with that, €1 is a small price to pay for securing your future and security of mind, isn't it?
Insurance go first! I'm too young/old ....you're never too young, or old for that matter, to start to proactively secure YOUR future. The earlier you start, the longer your funds have to grow and appreciate in value, while even starting much later in life will give you tax relief and help you to exercise SOME power over your finances.
A plan for my Pension? "Someone else" will provide it ............who, precisely? And why should they? While an employer may contribute to your Pension Plan, ask yourself how much of a benefit you'd expect to get, would it be guaranteed, and if so, for how long? Would you be happy to have "someone else" pick your clothes, choose your car or have any other say in your life - but if you don't plan for your Pension, "someone else" WILL be deciding your future.
I'll do it "Later ...... look at the cost of delay - to provide a pension of €2,000 per month, a 20 year old would need to pay €270 per month into a pension plan, while a 40 year old saving for EXACTLY the same amount would need to pay €951 per month - FRIGHTENING, isn't it??
There's a State Pension .......there is alright. As of Jan, 2007, that stands at the princely sum of €209.30 per week. Now ask yourself, given the ever increasing cost of accommodation, transport, food, communications, entertainment etc., if you were relying on the State Pension ONLY, would you be LIVING or EXISTING?
I don't want to think about it.......fair enough, that's your prerogative, but burying your head in the sand on the Construction site won't make planning for your future go away. Can you imagine a Builder deciding they didn't want to think about something on a Construction site......would you be happy to work there?
I'll be dead by then ...perhaps you will, but suppose you're not? Can you imagine HAVING to continue doing manual labor out of dire economic necessity? Or what if you've worked all your life and in spite of your best efforts, face 30 years of retirement?
Another alternative the Irish Government are looking at, as pointed out in a recent IBEC report in Feb 2006, is that they may increase the minimum retirement age to 70 or 75.Can you imagine the potential effect this would have on the Construction Industry? So, as an Irish Building worker, why don't you take control of your future, ignore the 7 most popular excuses outlined above, and make your Pension THE KEYSTONE of your financial future......and if you need another incentive, try living on €209.30, and nothing else, for a few weeks!!!
For general pension's information, please visit the website of the Irish Pensions Board or for Information relating specifically to Pensions visit Irish Construction Industry Pensions.
Ireland's premier supplier of Pension and Retirement planning for those contractors, suppliers and sub-contractors who work in the Irish Construction Industry
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Anthony Woods T/a Keystone Insurance
