Finally.
Formerly unemployed mapper Omar Sarhan writes:
You may have noticed a lack of maps, that’s because I am now gainfully employed! So no staying up to till all hours mapping kebabs and the like.
I covered a topic on my blog about students in Dublin 2004-2014 before and followed up by creating a map and a few charts and graphs that some may find interesting. I’ll let the map (above) speak for itself and you can explore more on the topic via my blog post here.
If anyone is curious I am working with global spatial geo-datasets and logistics software in London, for a small firm called Map Mechanics. It’s pretty cool to work in a country where real business gets done and ….. (I better stop there before I offend :P ). I’ll hopefully create more maps over the next few weeks…
10 Years In Third Level Education (Omar Sarhan)
Congrats on the job, Omar!
“It’s pretty cool to work in a country where real business gets done .”
It is pretty uncool to offend your friends, when you think you don’t need them any more.
Yup. There are two ways to leave the country for a while – one of which involves doing so with a chip on one’s shoulder.
They’re lucky to have shoulders, eh Stumpy.
Hoop – what’s with your fixation on my broadsheet nom de plume? I have arms and legs, I swears to ya!
a mere scratch
I’m not sure…. is the other way in a container load of stolen bicycles headed to Albania or taking the horse to France?
The offence wasn’t designed to be personal, it was more a critique if my experience with the Irish business community.
I hope to continue to actively contribute to Broadsheet, I like you guys!
I’m sure it’s all the gubbermint’s fault somehow!
Congratulations Omar. I for one, will miss your geographic input.
Congrats Omar!
No need for the dig, little man.
Jeez.. nice post up until the point he wrote off the entire country as layabouts.
Plenty of decent companies doing good work here.
Exactly. Productivity and efficiency has never been so high.
Particularly in that great new water company they set up, wha
If only they had a mapping role I could apply for …. Oh wait they did … 8 weeks later no response …. :/
Mostly likely a one-off project they gave to one of the consulting companies they’re paying for rather than hiring an individual freelancer.
Makes sense as a big company.
Good luck in the new role!
Nope it’s an internal role, not a short term contract. ;)
My response went from delight for you, Omar, to annoyance. There was no need for snide remark.
My response went from delight for you, Omar, to annoyance. There was no need for the snide remark.
‘Suggest you stay put Omar
Personally I never really cared all that much for your cartography Omar but I wish you the best and I must say your new career as a clickbaiting troll shows real promise ;)
The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo croide
Long may it stay between England and me
It’s a sure guarantee that some hour we’ll be free
Oh thank God we’re surrounded by water
Oh sad was the day when I went far way
to work amongst timber and concrete
as I made me a plan for to follow life’s span
I forsook the dear place of my homeland
If God grants me grace I’ll return to the place
when the twilight of life has come o’re me
as I stand on your shores like a bird my heart soars
as I gaze on the beauty around me
It’s pretty cool to work in a country where real business gets done and …..
Said the man drawing maps
Sure who needs maps?
Come back Omar !
I’ve lost my way!
I have a sneaking suspicion someone needs a map!
Congratulations Omar.
Perhaps you could illustrate your point to the little Britons(or Brutons in KNYC’s case) you have left behind?
The architech of the of the bias in reduction to rural Ireland is none
other than Raudri Quinn, this was his legacy, what about taking away
his generous pension, he certainly didn’t fill up any complex forms
to get it or indeed to pay the 100%, principal capital cost of providing it
If this was done we soon hear about austerity from the most unusal of sources.
Now he’s in the big time
And we’re in the way