For me it's slightly meh-ish.
I had a temp job for Halloween (working at zombie maze), and I was offered a job putting on interactive plays/stories/games for children, but had to turn it down because I only get paid at the events themselves, and the cost of travelling for rehearsals was far too much for the little pay they were offering (apart from that I would have taken it). I have an interview this week for an 6 month intern with Fighting Words (Roddy Doyle's center for creative writing for kids after school and such). (BTW, not through Jobs Bridge). They reimburse travel and lunch, so at least I'm not losing out. See how it goes.
I've nearly stopepd using Jobs Bridge all together. It's a joke. Indeed is pretty good so far, but what's annoying is the jobs bridge jobs have started posting there and just reroute you to the site.
I don't have a problem with internships (per se), but it's just that fact it has been used WAY too much and there's really no management of who can post. Once,I tried signing up as a fake company, and guess what... I got in. I stopped there, but jesus, can you imagine how easy it would be just to post joke jobs just to show how ridiculous it is. "Altar Boy wanted... most spend a lot of time on knees". "Water protestor infromant for An Garda.... beardie-weirdies not required but advantage".
Recently I've started looking into doing my own start-up (since everyone else seems to do it). It's not a bad idea; it's a crowdfunding site that divides cost among pledgers, lowering the cost, and rewarding chronologically rather than those who have the most money. The commission is added to the final price, so the company gets the money without stealing it from the project runner. So say you want €10,000 for a film you're making. If 10,000 people agree to fund it, instead of them saying how much they will pay, the money is divided by the people. So instead of 10,000 divided by 10,000 equals €1. So imagine getting crazy awesome rewards (merch, a copy of the film, you're name in the credits) for as little as €1 instead of €20-100 it usually is. I've looked into it and right now I can apply for what's called a feasibility grant.
It's tough, but I think we need this; we need to toughen up and do our own thing.
Also, ranty mcranty while I'm here, I hate it when you apply for a job, they say they get back to you, never do, and then weeks later you see the same job uploaded again. No, you don't get to be spoilt for choice. Pick one of us cunt! lol
TL;DR: Stuff a dole person would say, lol.