I have no "college experience", but lots of engineering experience. I can learn anything, but I would also take any job to start out. What would be the best path to plan for, time line about 1year to 1 1/2 years to work with before the move... Thanks.
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If you where living up north as a former marine you might want to consider joining the PSNI (the police), but seriously work is hard to come by all over Ireland at the minute, hopefully in a year or two things will have improved. Engineering and Manufacturing are not what they used to be in Ireland.
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The above answer has a point. You could join the police in N. Ireland as the IRA terrorist threat to the whole of Ireland increases again.
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You'd need to get a college education first. But you could start applying for jobs from where you are in the US, and if you get a job offer in writing from an Irish company registered with the Irish tax authorities here, then you can apply for your residency/work permit, again from the US. I should warn you that the economic situation here in Ireland is as bad as everywhere else and that highly qualified Irish people and EU nationals are having a tough time getting work, and Irish employers are legally obliged to employ local nationals first - plus there isn't the expensive financial rigmarole of sorting out the bureaucratic red tape that they would have with employing you. Even if you do get the job offer in writing, there's no guarantee that the residency/work permit will be automatic. Another way of doing this would be to look among your parents and grandparents and see if any of them emigrated from what are now European Union countries - and please understand that 'Europe' and 'European Union' are not the same thing, as there are many countries in Europe that are NOT members of the European Union. However, if you have a parent or grandparent who emigrated from an EU country, you could look into getting a passport of that country, and as a national of an EU member state you would be entitled to live and work anywhere in the EU in theory - however, given the economic situation at the moment, in practice this might be a bit different.
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I wonder why you would consider moving to Ireland of all places? The weather is dire more often than not, the cost of living is far more expensive than in the US and in 1-2 years time we may just about be clawing our way of out the recession, you know about the recession I think you have one in America too if I remember rightly? Best bet would be to try Australia I would think. There are nearly 450,000 people living in Ireland looking for a job and Irish/EU citizens are given preference when it comes to job appointments.
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Try swimming here. If you're a former marine you should be up to it.
