Worst hit public sector workers earn €38,000

[Conor]

Most small businesses have to struggle like this to build up a business. You have to keep cash/capital in the business in porder for it to grow. The reward comes in the long term when you are well established and can seel your business or take larger salray /profits.

Strangely, though, the poster doesn't seem able to accept the shorter-term pain associated with longer term reward without whinging over and over again about how little he earns now. No mention at all of how much he expects to earn in the future as a consequence.

Somebody has to have guts, risk taking ability,creative thinking to start a business.They are not to many of them around.As the poster said previously he took no wage so he could look after his employees.

I fully understand that; however, after living on the breadline for the past 13 years, through an unprecedented era in Irish history during which money flowed as never before and profligate consumers spent their cash on virtually anything, do you think it possible that perhaps he shouldn't try to be the sort of "Somebody" to which you refer? Not everyone has what it takes, and if he isn't offering a good or service that enough people are willing to pay for, maybe he should stop banging his head off a brick wall and just quit.

Alternatively, perhaps the poster is lying for rhetorical effect.

[selfemployedmar]

Well if you rich PS people when you get your index linked pensions I will gladly sell.
Why is there an assumption that €300 per wk is on the breadline, that statement could only come from a well paid PS worker. My point is I am paying my levies, corp tax, rates etc, the whinging that gets up my nose is from the union representatives who call a strike and seem to think they have mandate on behalf of the majority of the irish people, take the pain like the rest of us in small business's, in the small business world we do not get grants like the larger corporations, there are thousands like me we just need to stand up and tell how it is..

[selfemployedmar]

The reason I took no wages was because a few large companies decided not to pay me for 3 months, I could not distress some of my employees by letting them go they had families and mortgages just like me, would you in the PS stop taking a wage for few months?? When you are a small business owner you dont take the profits if their are any you put them back into the company to try and make a better environment for employees and make sure they get proper benefits. Everone assumes that private sector business's have benefited from the celtic tiger, that is a complete myth and nonsense

[evercloserunion]

And here I though all civil servants made €100000000000000000000000000000000000000e+14580926 354

per hour.

[selfemployedmar]

Most of the people doing the talking wont ever loose their jobs! Certain sectors of the community are not been heard! So this marching, strike action is just down right sickening and disgraceful