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"What if you spent a summer where everyone else goes on holiday?"
Everyone else is counting down to their two weeks in Kerry while you are already there, knowing the back roads, the locals, and exactly which beach is worth the walk. Working a season somewhere like Kenmare or the Dingle Peninsula teaches you things no classroom does: how to handle pressure, how to read people fast, and how much you are actually capable of. You will finish the summer with cash, contacts, stories, and a relationship with a place that tourists only ever scratch the surface of.
Bríd (24), Waterford — front desk at a Tramore hotel, obsessed with wild swimming
I got a job at an activity centre outside Dingle in early May and told everyone it'd be like a long holiday, which was completely wrong.
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