I want an easier life for myself and my family

Pinky15

Yep I am with you on the plan - I am going to do a big shop and then split remaining money between weeks as diesal and personal spending. I am just waiting for DH payslip so I can work out exactly what we have for the month. He is already working an extra weekend next month which adds £200 ish to the pot - think I may use half towards so work on the house tho as we are trying to do it up on a budget. I know it maybe isnt very moneysaver but hate living in a tip lol!
I think it is feb and march where we dont pay council tax - dont hold me too that tho. Keep you chin up feb is a short month:)

lauhen

Just finished a shift at the hospital which should give me another £100 to pay towards a debt, I must keep ringing every Friday for more shifts. I'm soooooo tired, it seemed I was working alongside someone that makes themselves look busy but doesn't actually do anything, or very little, especially the harder tasks. Oh well, you can't win them all.

judi24

Just wanted to say hi - and well done so far! I can remamber my first shift as a care assistant so well - I was terrified but so glad I did it - I worked 2 nights at the weekend when my oldest 2 kids were babies - it lead on to me doing my nurse training and I am now a Head of Nursing - so you never know where this might lead!!!

Well done on clearing you debt so far! And I also sympathise with you about the kids money - I have 4 kids so there is never a week goes by when one school or another wants money for something never mind the other clubs! My eldest is hoping to go to uni in september so another expensive time coming up!

Good luck I shall subscribe - if you want any advice on nursing let me know x

lauhen

I have paid another £149.01 to barclaycard so my total is really coming down, i do have another £100 that I can add to that but I am holding back as it's my daughters birthday this month, and I want to just wait and see how I get on with her present buying, I do have another £80 left for her gifts anyway, and I have already bought some.

I need to ring bank and try and get a shift for sunday.

clearmydebts

lauhen wrote: »

I have paid another £149.01 to barclaycard so my total is really coming down, i do have another £100 that I can add to that but I am holding back as it's my daughters birthday this month, and I want to just wait and see how I get on with her present buying, I do have another £80 left for her gifts anyway, and I have already bought some.

I need to ring bank and try and get a shift for sunday.

You are doing so well with Barclaycard. You are nearly there!

lauhen

I fill happier at the minute, I have now booked up all my wkend shifts in feb and most of march, so it's nice to know that there is some guaranteed money for debt busting.

lauhen

I had a good shift on sunday, i didn't want to go in as had a migraine, but was glad i did. I was on the medical short stay ward, there was a high turnover of patients, it was busy with lots to do, but it was enjoyable, i was on with a nice bunch of staff, some wards the nurses are not at all approachable, but they were nice on this ward. I was given alot more space, and a little more responsibility. Even if it was just going to the pharmacy, doing a patient transfer etc, it was still nice.
Hopefully i get to go back to that ward soon, this weekend i am on a diabetic ward, which is ok but kind of draining, its a bit hit and miss with the staff, and i am also on an unknown ward at the moment as i need to ring on friday tofind out where i am being placed.
I really dont think i cando nurse training, if i was younger then maybe but they all seem so stressed, surely i could do extra training courses with what i am doing and further myself that way, i know that there are health care support workers in the hospital at different levels, they seem to have more responsibility, i wouldnt mind doing that role, i guess this is for judi24 to reply to, maybe you would know something about this.
Anyway only a couple of days until i can pay off some more.

judi24

Sorry for not getting back to you! In reponse to your comments - there are lots of roles in nursing at various levels. As an Health Care assistant I assume you are a band 2 - if you could get a permananet job on a ward they would more than likely support you to develope competencies. There may be scope to get band 3 HCA jobs once you have increased your competency. NVQ courses support this type of developement. Some areas are developing Band 4 Assistant Practitioner posts that have more responsibility - and need more training(usually through a university) but not a full nurses training. There is loads of scope to develop without doing a full nurse training - but don't discount it! Not sure how oold you are but there are loads of mature students doing training now and you get a reasonable bursery at the moment - although that may change within the next few years - not sure if that helps!

lauhen

I have been AWOL for a fair while, first daughter was ill then son, then me and then oh, plus daughters birthday to sort out. Anyway all done and dusted now, still made payments to debts, will update sig when I work out totals, a fair bit of the money that would have gone on debt I used to pay for daughters birthday, previously this would have gone on credit cards. So that's good.

lauhen

I am also considering doing an open university course, firstly a short course called understanding health which would get me back into it and then a longer course called introduction to health and social care (k101), the last one has an exam so that's why I am putting off registering for it, I'm not good in exams at all, does anyone else do course k101, if so what is it like. I won't get any funding for it, but I can pay in installments so that would be ok.