hey guys it's me again jen and welcome back to my channel today i'm gonna give you 11 great reasons
why you should be working here in ireland and not someplace else but just like everything else
it's not always rainbows and butterflies so i'm gonna make a two-part video where and i'm gonna
make another one and tell you guys some of the things that i don't really fancy about ireland
so if you're new here i talk a lot about living overseas and sometimes i also share some of my
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then thank you very much for your support and i stan all of you guys first and i think the most
important of them all is to work in life balance i am a certified public accountant i worked as an
auditor in the Philippines for three years and as a general accountant in Malaysia for four years
and from all of those experiences i can say that my work and my personal life are balanced the most
here in Ireland here no one's gonna raise their eyebrows when you leave work on the dot i remember
back in the days when i was so anxious leaving work on time because my boss and even some of my
colleagues would think that my workload is too little so i get worried that maybe the next day
or the next week i will get some more tasks it's like the longer you work the more hard working
you are but actually that is the complete opposite you want to be an efficient employee so you won't
spend all of your days and nights working in the office and also you won't need to wait for your
bosses to leave before you can actually go home and i'm quite sure one way or another you can
definitely relate to that i work from 9 to 5:30 which is probably the same as everyone else who
work in an office we have lunch breaks for an hour so technically we are only required to work for
seven and a half hours but what's not written in that contract is that the company actually
recommends employees to take breaks during the day to relieve stress and to just keep the body
moving so in my office people will normally go for morning and afternoon breaks which is usually
at 10:00 a.m and 4:00 p.m they would go to the pantry make their own tea or coffee chat away
with other people about weather and football but you see the time isn't also set like it is
very flexible that you can actually go whenever you want just as long as you are not neglecting
any of your meetings or deliverables of course number two leave credits we get a whopping 25
yes 25 annual leave credits compared to the minimum of 12 days in the Philippines
and if i remember correctly 21 days in Malaysia and to make it way better all of those 25 days
are available for use by the start of the year so you can actually use as many days as you want in
whatever month that you like for example january, february, march unlike in some places where
you earn the leave credits on a monthly basis which makes it impossible for you to take
long holidays by the start of the year looking back on all the holidays that i did in 2019 i
can't actually imagine having just the 12 days of holidays in one year to be honest
number three permanent residency so if you are holding a critical skills working permit
you can apply for permanent residency within two years otherwise if you're holding a general
working permit then you'll need just an extra year and that makes it three years before you
can do the application which is not too bad at all especially that being a permanent resident
has a lot of benefits and i think that deserves a different video but today i'm going to tell you
the two things that i think make a whole lot of difference first you don't need a working
visa anymore to work here in Ireland which is usually a deal breaker for most applicants
because some companies don't have enough resources to undergo that long and expensive
immigration process so there are actually more opportunities for permanent residents
second you can go in and out of Ireland without any visa requirement let's say you want to go home
for a long while let's say three to six months and that you'd want to resign from your job then you
can do so and then fly back here to Ireland with no job yet as long as you have a valid permanent
resident status number four citizenship you can apply for Irish citizenship after five years worth
of days that you are physically here in Ireland but don't get me wrong i am a proud Filipino i
love being a Filipino and i'm definitely gonna retain my Filipino citizenship when the time
comes that i can apply for the Irish passport it's just that i believe that holding an Irish passport
is gonna give me better benefits and also better opportunities and if you are a wonder lost like
me on top of the list is being able to travel to other countries with no visa requirement number
five easy accessibility to anywhere in the world my personal mantra is i work to live and for me
one way of living is traveling to see new places, taste new food and experience different cultures
and Ireland is a very strategic place of doing that because it has a massive range of airports
that can bring you anywhere in the world with reasonably priced flights i usually go with
Ryanair and they're actually really good as long as you read their fine print like the rules about
the baggage and about your boarding pass and then you'll be able to fly with them smoothly without
paying additional fees you'll even get better rates if you plan in advance i actually scored
a 50 euro return flight to Amsterdam back in 2019. i live four hours away from Dublin where the main
airport is but luckily for me we have a very small airport here in Kerry which is a 20 minute drive
away from town from there i can go directly to the UK, to Spain, to Germany and Portugal
and i am telling you it is the best airport ever like you can actually arrive there one hour before
your flight and you're still gonna make it there was one time i actually pushed it to 30 minutes
and guess what i still made it but i don't recommend that though because i was [ __ ] myself
all the way to the airport and yeah it's just way too risky and you don't want that plane to
live without you i think the cheapest flight that i got before the Covid was a 30 euro return flight
to the UK number six every corner is instagram worthy if you are a nature lover like me you'll
definitely love Ireland you will be surrounded by beautiful landscapes, a lot of greeneries for
walking, cycling and just mind-blowing and stunning views in fact there are actually
a lot of shows and movies that were shot here in Ireland like Game of Thrones in Belfast, Star Wars
and Skellig, Leap Year in Dublin and so much more i actually made a video which is a very short tour
of my little town here in Ireland and you will be surprised how gorgeous it is so you better
check it out to see a glimpse of it i'm gonna put the link up there so you can check it after this
number seven multicultural you can meet a lot of new people here in Ireland and experience their
different cultures first hand see, Ireland houses a lot of international companies and it is normal
for them to recruit different cultures because diversity actually helps them win in different
markets in my office i am the only Filipino most of my colleagues are Irish but there are Russians,
South Africans, Turkish and i became really good friends with a gorgeous Lithuanian lady
and a great Hungarian couple we spent a lot of time together back then but unfortunately
they left me here and went back to their home countries already even though we are miles apart
we still talk to each other and travel together and that's the best part of it you don't lose the
connection with the people that you become friends with you know who you are i miss you guys so much
i am looking forward to seeing you again and traveling with you again number eight the people
here in Ireland you feel like you're a family the stereotype that Irish people are very friendly
and welcoming is actually very true back in 2018 i was still in the Philippines because we are still
processing my working permit and then a typhoon hit the Philippines it was so strong that it made
it to the international news and i was so amazed and so touched because i received emails from my
bosses, future bosses at that time, and also the HR recruiter that was talking to me to check if my
family and i are doing fine these people haven't met me in person but they actually remember that i
am from the Philippines and took the time to send me that email just to check up on me that is just
so amazing and from there i knew that i am in a great company with a lot of great people also
Irish people love giving out compliments they will not hesitate to tell you that you've done
a really great job at work and sometimes a stranger will tell you how gorgeous you are
and not in a creepy manner like this morning hey good morning your coast is beautiful
thanks so much number nine the pub culture Irish people love their pubs and it's not because they
want to get wasted it's one of their favorite social activities and you'll be amazed how much
culture is in there sometimes i actually feel that there are more pubs than people here you know each
one of them are offering different things like live music, traditional Irish music, some of them
have dance floors and you might want to sit for this, some of them have karaoke yes and Filipinos
love karaoke so much so right away i became a regular of that pub just across my house and
that's the best pub ever i actually had my 28th birthday there that was so fun number
10 the language i actually talked about this in my first ever video where i gave out some tips
on how you can actually find and land a job here in Europe i'm gonna put the link up there just in
case you want to check that out after the brexit it's now only Ireland that is the English-speaking
country in the whole of the European Union so if you want to make it to Europe without learning the
other languages definitely Ireland is the place to go now we're down to number 11. last but not least
they love my skin color gone were the days when i was teased of my dark color it was crazy because
it happened in school when i was working in the Philippines when i was working in Malaysia
they understand that's part of the culture back home if you have a fair skin that's better you
are more beautiful but here people actually pay to have this luscious brown color like in the shops
instead of whitening lotions whitening soaps glutathione tablets what you're going to find
are tanning lotions and tanning beds and instead of being teased i get complimented for my skin
for anyone who has experienced the same i just want to tell you that it does get better so
get your booties here now and you'll be the queens and kings so yeah that's it guys
i hope that you're already thinking of moving here in Ireland and watch out for the next video
where i'm gonna tell you guys some of the things that i don't fancy about Ireland and yeah so ciao