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Hi All
I am absolutely desperate to go back to college. I am 23, a mum and I work full-time. I have had 3 years of hell and suffer with Hemiplegic Migraine which pretty much take over my life at the moment due to my job. Basically, I love to learn and have always wanted to study Criminology and Psychology.
My head needs a break for a year or so from the stress of working life and I have managed to get my hubby to agreed to me going to college if I can get the same in benefits as I would get if I was working (about £950).
Does anybody know what is available to me? Hubby earns £600 per month and we have a 3 year old.
Any help much appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
K x
p.s. we have also just been made bankrupt if this has any impact?
:silenced: :mad:I was born too late, into a world that doesn't care
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Please read about hemiplegic migraines before you judge me. I have NO quality of life and barely see my daughter.£10,000 challenge£175/£10,000:eek:Total Debt - £lots!:eek::TWeightloss Challenge 11lb:T*Just because I rock does not mean that I am made of stone*0
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Please read about hemiplegic migraines before you judge me. I have NO quality of life and barely see my daughter.
I'm not sure how that should entitle you to £950 a month of taxpayers' money!I was born too late, into a world that doesn't care
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If you are ill and have no quality of life, how are you going to manage a college course and a family at the same time.
How do you manage to work full time and a family.
Do you actually know the meaning of 'no quality of life'
No, thought not.make the most of it, we are only here for the weekend.
and we will never, ever return.0 -
Hi AllI am absolutely desperate to go back to college. I am 23, a mum and I work full-time. I have had 3 years of hell and suffer with Hemiplegic Migraine which pretty much take over my life at the moment due to my job. Basically, I love to learn and have always wanted to study Criminology and Psychology.My head needs a break for a year or so from the stress of working life and I have managed to get my hubby to agreed to me going to college if I can get the same in benefits as I would get if I was working (about £950).Does anybody know what is available to me? Hubby earns £600 per month and we have a 3 year old.Any help much appreciated!Thanks in advance!K xp.s. we have also just been made bankrupt if this has any impact?
I've no idea, sorry, but if you ever find out, let us know where & how we can all apply, please.
Myself and the rest of the working tax-payers of this country would love to know where the end of the queue is.
Ta!"Now to trolling as a concept. .... Personally, I've always found it a little sad that people choose to spend such a large proportion of their lives in this way but they do, and we have to deal with it." - MSE Forum Manager 6th July 20100 -
can your hubby not earn more and you look for part time?The Googlewhacker referance is to Dave Gorman and not to my opinion of the search engine!
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Perhaps the quote from DC be more fitting here:
"people would “not just ask ‘What are my entitlements?’ but ‘What are my responsibilities?’ and not ‘What am I owed?’ but more ‘What can I give?’"0 -
Please read about hemiplegic migraines before you judge me. I have NO quality of life and barely see my daughter.
I am also a fairly new poster here, and I think it is fair to give people a chance. Not everyone is articulate or able to express what they mean in the written word, and maybe people have jumped to conclusions....
So I did what you suggested. Can you please explain to me why your working life - as opposed to any other aspect of your life - is a cause of this condition. Because of the two types of HM identified, one is genetic (nothing to do with work) and the other has no known cause (nothing to do with work)? So how (other than avoiding paying back your debts) will going to college improve on this?
Secondly, I do have to point out that this is the 21st century. You therefore do not need your husbands permission to do what you want to do. Who the hell does he think he is to tell you what you have to do? Marriage confers no such authority.
I don't know the circumstances under which you went bankrupt, nor do I care to. But it happens, and it happens to a lot of people. I'd have to suggest that everyone consider the fact that "there but for the grace of God..." - it could happen to any one of us if we are unlucky enough.
But I would suggest to the OP that you wake up and smell the daisies. A lot of people have hard times and bad choices. Fall in line on that one. But if you genuinely wnat to do something, then a little effort is required on your part. There is nothing wrong with habing a dream and following it - or trying to. But "wanting some time off work" or "needing permission" sounds like you need to do a little growing up. What is wrong with stydying and working - lots of people do it through the OU. Yes, it's hard. But the things you really want in life often are a little hard. How much do you want it? Enough to do what it takes? The impression you have given is that you don't want it that much. If that is true, then perhaps the harshness of some of these posts is fair. If it isn't - well that's up to you, isn't it?0 -
Secondly, I do have to point out that this is the 21st century. You therefore do not need your husbands permission to do what you want to do. Who the hell does he think he is to tell you what you have to do? Marriage confers no such authority.
Never mind the money grabbing attitude of the post in general THIS is what worried me the most. Add in to the fact if he is only taking £600 a month home he must be working part time.
Now I know, from first hand experience, that jobs are hard to get now but asking for £950 a month is taking the proverbial.0 -
...Secondly, I do have to point out that this is the 21st century. You therefore do not need your husbands permission to do what you want to do. Who the hell does he think he is to tell you what you have to do? Marriage confers no such authority. ...
Depends whether she vowed to obey him
"Now to trolling as a concept. .... Personally, I've always found it a little sad that people choose to spend such a large proportion of their lives in this way but they do, and we have to deal with it." - MSE Forum Manager 6th July 20100
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