Newbie, sad and lonely

BitterAndTwisted

See? You are valued. I always used to leave a little Christmas present for our office cleaner, not that I ever met them, just so they knew their services were valued by the users even though they probably earned naff-all doing it.

Is the private work decently paid? I knew a cleaner who used to earn £7.50 an hour and that was 20 years ago when £7.50 was a generous hourly rate.

skintbutsolvent

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

See? You are valued. I always used to leave a little Christmas present for our office cleaner, not that I ever met them, just so they knew their services were valued by the users even though they probably earned naff-all doing it.

Is the private work decently paid? I knew a cleaner who used to earn £7.50 an hour and that was 20 years ago when £7.50 was a generous hourly rate.

I get £12/hr for the private house, min wage for the rest. Sadly I only do 3hrs private but it helps. I get a cup of Earl Grey there most weeks too;)

choille

SBS - that's good money for the house, could you get more private cleaning jobs - advertise?

Here they pay buttons.........

BitterAndTwisted

skintbutsolvent wrote: »

I get £12/hr for the private house, min wage for the rest. Sadly I only do 3hrs private but it helps. I get a cup of Earl Grey there most weeks too;)

Twelve quid an hour? For that money I'd be happy to clean someone else's lavs, no problem but I'd pass on the Earl Grey's.

If your employer is happy with you, I'd be surprised if they're not passing your name on and if they're not perhaps they could be prevailed upon to do so. Once upon a time when I was a live-out nanny good, trustworthy cleaners were like gold-dust and my employer's was treated very well indeed. I used to cook her a nice lunch twice a week

foreign_correspondent

skintbutsolvent wrote: »

I always wanted to be a teacher, but somehow ended up in IT Come to think of it, no one I used to work with had set out to be in IT!

Do you still want to teach? - if you already have a degree you could just do the postgrad year - and there are bursaries in addition to student loans - last time I looked I think it was about 6k.

Have you thought about doing some voluntary work with kids or in a school to see if it is for you?

Or, if you are interested in education, you could also look at education roles in museums (with your history background) or in adult ed (eg. local colleges, WEA etc)...

http://www.prospects.ac.uk/p/types_of_job/museum_education_officer_job_description.jsp

skintbutsolvent

Wine has won:(:cry:

choille

Tomorrow's a new day.

BitterAndTwisted

skintbutsolvent wrote: »

Wine has won:(:cry:

Not too much now and NO sleeping tabs tonight

foreign_correspondent

skintbutsolvent wrote: »

Wine has won:(:cry:

dont get yourself down over it - sometimes you have to take baby steps, and you have taken some pretty big ones already by posting on here and starting thinking about changing things...

It has won the battle (tonight), but certainly not the war!

skintbutsolvent

Heading to bed in a mo, early start tomorrow.

2 small glasses of red, topped up with fizzy water that I actually enjoyed!
2 tablets (has been 4-6)

Not perfect but a start.