Dilemma – Please Help!!
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Hi folks. I have a big dilemma which I hope some of you guys and gals may be able to help me out with.
I graduated from Queens in 2005 with a Masters in Town Planning (I am however from the Republic). I immediately left for Oz where I worked as a planner for nearly two years. I returned home at the end of November.
I have now got the opportunity (which I would really like to take) to move to the UK and work as a planner there for the next three years. The thing is should I go?
I do want to settle in Ireland and eventually open up my own consultancy. However, if I take the job in England, I will return in 2010 but will have no Irish experience under my belt, five years after graduating.
Now we all know a lot can happen in planning in five years so do you guys think I would have trouble finding a job when I return home? On the other hand, would increasing my international experience make me more employable?
Sorry for the rambling post, I tried to express myself as best I could, hope you get my point.:confused:
Any views and opinions would be most welcome.:D
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As the saying goes, a prophet is never appreciated in his (her) own country.
I’d be inclined to think that it can do you no harm to go, and that in fact it might do you much good in the longer run. The only problem might be, as you say, the development climate here in 5 years. Still, five years worth of experience in two different planning systems should make you eminently suitable for a cushy local authority job on your return, when you can settle into a nice pensionable position and dine out on your stories of foreign adventures over extended coffee breaks for the rest of your working life.;)
Good luck with the decision.
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Irish planning Consultancies are full of people, either from the UK, or with experience exclusively there. Now that might be a result of general emigration in the case of those who are Irish with experience. But it won’t do you any harm to go there for a while. In any case you can keep a very close eye on economic and development trends in Ireland while there and on the jobs market, and i’m sure you can come back after a year or two, if you feel it’s right,
As you know yourself, the only difference between UK and Irish planning is the legal system and sure fck all of us planners know that anyway 🙂 But the principles are all the same. I wouldn’t worry about not having Irish experience. Often people are looking for employees with fresh untainted eyes, who haven’t been beaten down by the Irish system of parish pump politics, gombeenism and those with a vested interest in administrative inertia….
fck it I might join you 🙂
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