Burlesque Babe's Re-building life but back in debt diary

Burlesque_Babe · 5 May 2009 at 8:09AM

Bank account is starting to look a bit 'seat of the pants' already this month. Got 786 in there at the moment, there's 100 to go in tomorrow from AQA and 88 later in the month from WTC.......take it a day at a time and see how it goes.

Hoping today should be a NSD (managed one yesterday!) and after an hour's teaching first thing I will be at home all day so am determined to crack on with lots of AQA. OH is apparently going to be out somewhere tonight watching the football so I should be able to get a few hours in.

Still not sure about the job which has come up. I like to find things in life which excite me - I then learn lots, very quickly, soak it all up like a sponge, get very good at it and then after a couple of years, find I need to learn something new.

There's nothing new about this job if I'm honest and I wonder if I'll be bored after a few months.

Burlesque_Babe · 5 May 2009 at 3:41PM

just had an email with the exams I'm booked into invigilating. Not as many as I'd hoped but it's 10 hours of invigilating this month, 2 in June and 1.5 in July.

At least the 10 hours this month will part make up for the lack of teaching so it's something.

LouiseJ · 5 May 2009 at 4:16PM

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

Bank account is starting to look a bit 'seat of the pants' already this month. Got 786 in there at the moment, there's 100 to go in tomorrow from AQA and 88 later in the month from WTC.......take it a day at a time and see how it goes.

Hoping today should be a NSD (managed one yesterday!) and after an hour's teaching first thing I will be at home all day so am determined to crack on with lots of AQA. OH is apparently going to be out somewhere tonight watching the football so I should be able to get a few hours in.

Still not sure about the job which has come up. I like to find things in life which excite me - I then learn lots, very quickly, soak it all up like a sponge, get very good at it and then after a couple of years, find I need to learn something new.

There's nothing new about this job if I'm honest and I wonder if I'll be bored after a few months.

But you could use it as a sideways step and it will help with your immediate cash flow problem BB. It might also do you good to be in a job that you are comfortable with as it will be a while since you have worked in a full time role.

It might also give you the springboard to grab that perfect job when it does present itself.

What about approaching other local colleges for invigilation roles, they are usually desperate at this time of year I know our place is but I think that the commute would be a bit far:D

pepe2008 · 5 May 2009 at 4:24PM

You could go to Lou's for a working holiday BB! She has a spare room, just dont use the downstairs loo for anything substantial:D:p

Burlesque_Babe · 5 May 2009 at 4:25PM

ah yes, the no poo loo at Lou's :rotfl:

Good idea about the college for invigilating - I think i'll email them now

EDIT: Done

LouiseJ · 5 May 2009 at 6:37PM

pepe2008 wrote: »

You could go to Lou's for a working holiday BB! She has a spare room, just dont use the downstairs loo for anything substantial:D:p

I dont actually know what would be worse for my poor guests ...

They could either take a chance downstairs and risk flooding the place with raw sewage OR trot upstairs to the loo which will let on to everyone that they are going for a Number 2:rotfl:

Well done on approaching the local college:T (for invigilation duties, we have moved on from the poo thing now):D

ZTD · 5 May 2009 at 7:19PM

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

There's nothing new about this job if I'm honest and I wonder if I'll be bored after a few months.

It's money. Is the difference in wage made up by how interesting AQA is?

Burlesque_Babe · 5 May 2009 at 9:22PM

ZTD wrote: »

It's money. Is the difference in wage made up by how interesting AQA is?

hmmmmm...........I guess it is (can you tell I'm still not enthused).........full time it's 20.7k and at 30 hours around 17k. If I did 30 hours I could still teach and do the rest of my teaching qualification. I could do the same on the full time hours but it would mean leaving the office at 5 and whizzing home, changing and then going to teach until 9 or being at the teaching qual. class until 9 which would be a bit heavy going I think at this stage for me.

I'd prefer to do 30 hours and then teach on top because teaching is what I see as my new start (and I'd need the money!!). I'd perhaps still need to do some AQA to get the debts paid off asap.

The other stumbling block is an area I was a bit unsure of when I left because I'd never had the opportunity to learn about it (some of the teccy stuff which would be second nature to anyone with proper training). I'm not keen on going back into an arena where I'm supposed to have done the job before but then get worried about not being up to speed with some stuff. Perhaps that's what's really stopping me from applying.

Dunno..........but there's something increasingly going up as a barrier.........

ZTD · 5 May 2009 at 10:04PM

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

I'd prefer to do 30 hours and then teach on top because teaching is what I see as my new start (and I'd need the money!!). I'd perhaps still need to do some AQA to get the debts paid off asap.

AQA then become the option, rather than the necessity.

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

The other stumbling block is an area I was a bit unsure of when I left because I'd never had the opportunity to learn about it (some of the teccy stuff which would be second nature to anyone with proper training). I'm not keen on going back into an arena where I'm supposed to have done the job before but then get worried about not being up to speed with some stuff. Perhaps that's what's really stopping me from applying.

It is highly unlikely that in any multi-faceted job, that you will know all of the systems associated with it unless you'd worked in that exact same workplace before. The question is just: Have you done something similar, and can you learn?