Its tough, it will get better and guess what its freezing brrrrr!

HariboJunkie

jackieglasgow wrote: »

Please do! Although let me know so I can do my housework first

Well don't clean your house too much or I shall think you're neglecting your children. ;):rotfl:

v8monkeyboy

Evenin' all!

Well, it's still tough here, but have had some good news today (I think).

I'm on my last nursing placement with 5 1/2 weeks to go, and there are NO jobs. None, I tells ya! So, the other day, I went with the other student to see my manager there just to have supervision and a bit of a whinge about the jobs situation.

Long story short, my manager told me today that although they can't promise a permanenet job, they are able to offer us both full time bank positions from the middle of November when we finish until the end of March, and then it'll be reviewed :j

So, not brilliant, but it's a job with guaranteed hours and money, and it'll allow us both to look for other jobs in the meantime.

On the downside, uni have managed to mess up my hours, so it now looks like I was never in this year! Basically, they've got me down as having missed 72 hours in 3 years, and these are logged as unauthorised absences :mad:. I know I missed some sessions, but only few, and I always let them know, none of which is logged. I'm in the process of sorting this out, but am worried that if people request references from uni in the meantime, this will go against me.

Does anyone have any experience of dealing with this kind of thing and how will prospective employers view this, if all my references are excellent and my academic and placement work is fo a high standard?

T x

Hippeechiq

charlies-aunt wrote: »

Housework .... my motto on that is 'Clean enough to be healthy, mucky enough to be happy'

When dd's were tiny, I had a very house proud and germ-concious friend - all pets were banned as being dirty, disease ridden fleabags, all soft toys were boil washed every week and all the plastic-y things were doused with milton fluid every evening and - she only allowed them to 'play in the garden' if they didn't stray off the large piece of carpet that she laid down on the lawn for 'outside play' :eek: . . . .her little dears were whinney, asthmatic, runny nosed and sickly - caught every bug going and were constantly at the doctors.

On t'other hand - dd's grew up in a normal house - a pretty OS childhood with lots of pets, made mud pies in the garden in all weathers and their toys only got washed when there was visible dirt on them - still caught colds and bugs but generally speaking much healthier and unfussy.

Life's too short to spend it doing housework! and I believe in leaving something for the next generation so I'm going to bequeath my undone housework

I'd like to have that attitude, but I've never quite managed it, though I'm not obsessive about it....I don't think....I save that for the hanging out of my washing

There is a fridge magnet that I often see in shops that I love, it says:- Housework Never Killed Anyone......But Why Take The Risk :rotfl:

Oh, and WTG Annie56 :T - how exciting!

Walked all the way to sodding £idls today (a 1½ mile round trip) just to buy some of their special offer 29p Red Peppers, and they'd ruddy well sold out! ........just needed to get that off my chest

ChocClare

Phew, just caught up with this thread, feeling exhausted now!

DD's horse spooked as she was taking her feed in last night and kicked, catching DD on her hip. Luckily nothing broken but a big horseshoe shaped bruise. I smothered it in arnica and we got into her bed together and watched a film to get her over the shock. Today she is sore but fine, but I feel like I haven't slept worrying about her!

Anyroad up, well done to annie56 - great to hear you turning things around so well.

Also, good news from you sammy-kaye - hope everything works out for you and I'm glad you stood your ground. Men, eh? Can't live with 'em, can't live with 'em. (I know that second bit is supposed to be "without" but I sometimes wonder :rotfl:)

Good luck to all gardeners - I have some strawberry plants sitting on the back door step which need to go in - just haven't had a chance yet. As to you houseworky types - I have set the ironing board up in the sitting room, together with a basket of ironing. I set it up on Monday when I got home from work, ready to do some ironing. I then got involved in something else "just for a moment". Everything is still sitting there but of ironed clothes there is no sign. Perhaps tomorrow...

Good news from DS - he has just (finally) had a text to say he's got the part-time job he went for at Sainsbury's, so that's BRILLIANT news for him, as I was beginning to think there were just NO jobs going for teenagers around here. The other good bit of news is that he will get a discount card (presumably when he's been there a while, I'm not sure) for himself and one other, named family member, so he's put my name down. Woohoo!

v8monkeyboy, just wanted to say that I work in a nursing home and when we take people on for bank or permanent work, we are interested in the report from the ward sister. We want to know that you turned up on time, didn't go off sick too often, got on with your colleagues, could work as part of a team, used your intelligence and - MOST IMPORTANTLY - cared for the residents/patients in your care. We would be far more interested in the ward sister's report than we would in the university's report. That said, it's definitely worth getting that sorted if you possibly can while it's still relatively fresh in people's minds. But if you're going for jobs, then I would expect you to put as referees your bosses in your work placements, as I would primarily be interested in how well you work, not whether you turned up for lectures.

If there are no nursing jobs available, I would also be inclined to suggest working as an HCA, even if only on the bank somewhere - once you're in the door somewhere and they know you, as long as you do your job properly then they're more likely to give you a chance if they do have any nursing vacancies coming up. We have had two HCAs at our home who left to do nursing training, and in both cases, we've given them work as nurses when they qualified. It has to be said that both of these girls were obviously going to be brilliant nurses, so we had no qualms about using them - they were excellent with the residents, even when they were "just" HCAs. However, by the same token, we had another girl was HCA/became a nurse who we did NOT employ as a nurse, because she let herself down so badly during her HCA time with us. So you have to be good! Just my two penn'orth, anyway - hope it helps!

Souk08

Hey y'all. freezing up here today! Just catching up and re housework, I love a good clean!

NualaBuala

Phew! It has taken me all evening to catch up on this thread and that is with a lot of skim-reading!

Congrats to all of you with job offers!:j

And hugs to those of you struggling for whatever reason. :grouphug:

Annie - I am delighted for you on all fronts - you rock! A man with nobbly carrots eh, sounds like a catch to me!

On the housework front - I don't believe any of you. I know you OS types and I bet your idea of letting the house go to pot is having the tea towel hanging up a bit crooked. The state of my house really gets me down at times and I don't have any children as an excuse. There are no inspirational yet reassuring poems about single childless women with ME sitting on the couch knitting and tea-drinking instead of doing the hoovering. But maybe I will write one. I saw a physio today and she is doing up a graded exercise plan for me ... I think she understood that the exercise has to be worked around doing shopping, cooking, laundry etc. So this is good news I think!

mardatha

Be careful with that NB, dont try to go too mad too fast. I spent the first year with ME fighting like hell to be better and get back to work "next week". I think now it just set me back another year. I'm relaxed about it now, if I'm having a bad day then I leave the house till the next day... no problems, it'll still be there ! Take care of yourself pet its not a nice illness xxx.

v8monkeyboy

ChocClare wrote: »

v8monkeyboy, just wanted to say that I work in a nursing home and when we take people on for bank or permanent work, we are interested in the report from the ward sister. We want to know that you turned up on time, didn't go off sick too often, got on with your colleagues, could work as part of a team, used your intelligence and - MOST IMPORTANTLY - cared for the residents/patients in your care. We would be far more interested in the ward sister's report than we would in the university's report. That said, it's definitely worth getting that sorted if you possibly can while it's still relatively fresh in people's minds. But if you're going for jobs, then I would expect you to put as referees your bosses in your work placements, as I would primarily be interested in how well you work, not whether you turned up for lectures.

If there are no nursing jobs available, I would also be inclined to suggest working as an HCA, even if only on the bank somewhere - once you're in the door somewhere and they know you, as long as you do your job properly then they're more likely to give you a chance if they do have any nursing vacancies coming up. We have had two HCAs at our home who left to do nursing training, and in both cases, we've given them work as nurses when they qualified. It has to be said that both of these girls were obviously going to be brilliant nurses, so we had no qualms about using them - they were excellent with the residents, even when they were "just" HCAs. However, by the same token, we had another girl was HCA/became a nurse who we did NOT employ as a nurse, because she let herself down so badly during her HCA time with us. So you have to be good! Just my two penn'orth, anyway - hope it helps!

Thanks for that - I've got a headache from worry and fury, and have spent a large part of my day trying to sort this mess out.

My manager has been brilliant in that she's managed to get me bank work, but full time, so it'll be 37.5 hours per week, and this is why I don't want to mess up my chances of getting the job (still have to go to interview, and supply references). I love being there and would love to stay on to start my career, so really don't want to let people down.

I've never missed a day off placement 'just because', I've either called in sick (when I have been obv.) or I've had compassionate leave (once in 3 years when OH was hospitalised for 5 days), so there's no worries there. It's my attendance at uni that's called into doubt, and it does state on our applications that uni have to be the first reference as they're our 'employer' at present.

I'm not the only one who's in this position though as appaarently they've had calls all day from students about the same issue. This is just a long line in mis-management by uni, and they've caused a lot of people a lot of trouble over the three years. For one of my friends, they've marked her absent without authorisation for the day her mother died, and they day of the funeral, even though she told them!

Anyway, I have to go to bed now, as I have a 5:30 start in the morning, and I'm running out of steam. Thank you for your kind reply ChocClare - I was going to ask my current mentor to be my first reference as it was, so lets hope it all goes ok.

T xx

HariboJunkie

NualaBuala wrote: »

I know you OS types and I bet your idea of letting the house go to pot is having the tea towel hanging up a bit crooked. !

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: *runs and checks her tea towels.*

NualaBuala wrote: »

There are no inspirational yet reassuring poems about single childless women with ME sitting on the couch knitting and tea-drinking instead of doing the hoovering. But maybe I will write one.

There once was a lady called Nuala
Who posted on MSE Old Style.
She was worried about her lack of Moola
And she hadn't cleaned up for a while.
But a wise old poster once told her
That the housework would wait till next day
To give herself a pat on the shoulder
The knitting will blow the cobwebs away.

xx

katholicos

mardatha wrote: »

Be careful with that NB, dont try to go too mad too fast. I spent the first year with ME fighting like hell to be better and get back to work "next week". I think now it just set me back another year. I'm relaxed about it now, if I'm having a bad day then I leave the house till the next day... no problems, it'll still be there ! Take care of yourself pet its not a nice illness xxx.

After suddenly being taken serously ill 11 years ago, i've had many years of poor health, worsening as each year has passed. The rheumie i saw last month thinks i may have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (amongst other things) is M.E the same thing or a different thing?