@apatheticsquirral 490274 wrote:
Well they have already made the plans for windfarms and are going ahead with them, they are vastly growing (even though it terns out they are probably not the best idea for efficient energy) So they do need a lot of people on them.
worth checking which countries the real investment comes from (for the projects what work) and even if they all speak English at the top ends their engineers discuss stuff in their own languages so these skills help. Also these things look big and are big but like anything else now have a skeleton staff working long hours to get the work done, not the hundreds of jobs they are claimed to attract.
Similar things occur at sea with the container ships, I see a lot of young folk from across Europe flock here in search or work and half of them end up living in the shells of the empty buildings round by the dockside. Not even a proper squat by Brighton standards its got walls missing and floors half knocked through
also it does seem like a bit suspicious that every time a new project is announced there is a spate of young folk on here discreetly asking about drug testing. just because the projects come from “liberal” European countries doesn’t mean the selection process won’t be the “best of the best” – physical and mental testing as well as drug testing (which to be fair makes sense in the conditions they will be working in). They do pay well but its gonna be hard work.
Ironically where the jobs are are the call centres for the “good energy” type places what encourage folk to switch their leccy business to the wind generators (I was going to use one myself but didn’t think it was right if I was putting people out of work in Essex to give jobs to Plymouth but now they are promising to put work back into the East).
