Greetings! Name's Michael, I come from Slovakia and I'd love to work in Ireland for some time. I'll be 23 in a month and a few days.
Currently, I'm employed in a warehouse/assembly line in my home country, which pays miserable money, but i'm there only for a few months to save some money through winter, after which I wanted to work abroad, but I kind of don't know where to begin.
Sure - I could've found a job abroad in some agency in Slovakia, but the offers are only hotels and factories and they pay money, which is under the minimum wage in those countries (Germany, UK, etc.), countering it by the fact they provide housing and lunches. The agencies are usually a big rip-off and If you go through personal contacts (e.g. a friend's friend is working for a factory in Germany), they could rip you off even more. That's why I've made an account here on expats and I'd like some information, because I'm worried about accomodation, whether I'll get accepted for a job and I need some tips as well.
Since High School, I've been working part-time and sometimes full-time in bars in Slovakia, but the pay is usually from 2.80€/h netto to 4€/h netto at best, which as you can imagine, is quite bad. So I'm working in a factory, where the pay is 5.07€/h netto, but It's physically and mentally draining and I'm about to quit after three months. What I'd love to do, is being able to work in a bar - which I enjoy, but get paid enough to save some money for a university, probably in the Netherlands. I've got good spoken english, so serving customers is no problem, i'm talkative and I know quite a lot about craftbeer and since the craftbeer industry is bigger in the west, I think I'd have OK chances - that is, if they would accept people from another countries. Do you think I have a chance?
The second thing i'm worried about is accomodation, but i'll type that in later, or make a new topic altogether, because I'm typing this as I'm going to work in the factory (low on time here).