Landlord selling house and I'm 6 mths pregnant

abby1234519

samroo wrote: »

The last posting is a disgrace. How selfish that she expects other people to pay for her and her child so she can afford to go to uni and get the job she wants.

You mean how disgraceful that I get SOME help for being a LONE parent finishing her course by herself so that she can pay taxes AGAIN like the rest of the working population.

So the fact that I worked for 5 years before starting university and am half way through my course doesn't count for anything.

Shut up.

abby1234519

samroo wrote: »

Troll? Not me. Merely stating that abby.... has no thought whatsoever for the people who are paying her housing benefit, etc, etc, so that she can do a degree and get a good job. The country has no money and yet people are demanding their "entitlements". If Abby... is intelligent enough to do a degree surely not getting pregnant wouldn't have been that difficult. To be honest it's the baby I feel sorry for the most. Life is hard enough as it is without a bad start in life

Aha!! Now really I should HAVE to explain this however, I am one of those unlucky girls where contraception hasn't worked due to a !!!! up a nurse has made. So yes obviously if I hadn't "opened my legs" I wouldn't be pregnant but I took all other necessary precautions.

thequant wrote: »

Depends on when and where she is doing her degree.

is she at a russel group uni or an ex-poly ?

is she studying a subject we have shortage of people for or she doing "meedja" studies ?

Is she heading for a first or a third ?

if the answer to any of those questions is the latter, then the chances of her getting a decent career and paying back the tax payer are very slim.

I'm not going to speculate as to what the answers to those questions, but to get pregnant while at uni is quite illuminating as to what those answers probably are.

I study in Leeds and my average mark is a 79. Would you like me to explain what that means? That means that I am in the top 2% of my course.

Am I studying Meedja studies? No thank you, I'm currently working on my English Literature Degree so that I can then take a PHD and work as a university lecturer or teacher. Please don't patronise me.

So, person who thinks that getting pregnant means you must have a rather low IQ, I think you'll find you are slightly off target with those assumptions.


Sorry OP for hijacking your thread I merely mean to point out that people need help sometimes to get to a place where they can provide for their children.

silvercar

thequant wrote: »

Depends on when and where she is doing her degree.

is she at a russel group uni or an ex-poly ?

is she studying a subject we have shortage of people for or she doing "meedja" studies ?

Is she heading for a first or a third ?

if the answer to any of those questions is the latter, then the chances of her getting a decent career and paying back the tax payer are very slim.

I'm not going to speculate as to what the answers to those questions, but to get pregnant while at uni is quite illuminating as to what those answers probably are.

Why, is aiming for a first or being at a Russell group a method of contraception?

WelshNic

Abby don't get drawn in by thequant's trolling, life's too short but I wish you all the best with your studies + pregnancy, how dare you want to make something of your life for your family

abby1234519

silvercar wrote: »

Why, is aiming for a first or being at a Russell group a method of contraception?

Perhaps he is basing it on the assumption that to get a first you have to work hard for 24 hours a day and have not a glimpse ofa social life. Or perhaps because people who are intelligent look at sex and think, "Oh what a dirty activity I must refrain"

Or because contraception is only used by those who actually understand the consequence of sexual intercourse.

"What, doing this makes a baby? SINCE WHEN?"

evoke

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Evoke has already had one of their disgraceful and insulting posts removed because I (and possibly other posters) reported it as abuse.

I am now giving you the same opportunity to modify or delete your own equally distasteful post before I report you, too.

This is NOT the forum to sling person abuse around at someone about whose circumstances you have little understanding of or concern for.

LOL.

Just because you don't like some posts as they don't agree with your views you choose to be the forum police.

You only hear one side of a story on here and people should be allowed to put opposing views and motives. With your permission, of course.

It seems like benefits scrounging has become a full-time job for a lot of people given the advice I read on here. As a hard-working taxpayer I feel I have a right to oppose the blatant abuse of the benefits system. With your permission, of course.

silverchair

abby1234519 wrote: »

Aha!! Now really I should HAVE to explain this however, I am one of those unlucky girls where contraception hasn't worked due to a !!!! up a nurse has made. So yes obviously if I hadn't "opened my legs" I wouldn't be pregnant but I took all other necessary precautions.



I study in Leeds and my average mark is a 79. Would you like me to explain what that means? That means that I am in the top 2% of my course.

Am I studying Meedja studies? No thank you, I'm currently working on my English Literature Degree so that I can then take a PHD and work as a university lecturer or teacher. Please don't patronise me.

So, person who thinks that getting pregnant means you must have a rather low IQ, I think you'll find you are slightly off target with those assumptions.


Sorry OP for hijacking your thread I merely mean to point out that people need help sometimes to get to a place where they can provide for their children.

You don't need a PhD to be a teacher. Just a good degree & a PGCE or the GTP way (where you can earn a wage & also train). I know most people prefer the GTP route as there wouldnt be a huge lose in earnings. However, English teachers are not in short supply.

abby1234519

silverchair wrote: »

You don't need a PhD to be a teacher. Just a good degree & a PGCE or the GTP way (where you can earn a wage & also train). I know most people prefer the GTP route as there wouldnt be a huge lose in earnings. However, English teachers are not in short supply.

Oh my plan is to lecture, basically if I did a PhD at Leeds university and had a good proposal I could get a maintenance grant from the uni directly as well as my fees paid. All I have to do is lecture in a subject and mark work etc, which obviously is good for the amount of years I'd be on research. Then I can either keep on doing that and specialising in a couple of modules or take that experience into teaching.

However yes I know not much short supply of English teachers in schools which is why I want to pursue the faculty staff route first.

And at the end of it all if there is no work in the teaching/lecturing field well I can work in publishing or maybe go back to sales. Who knows!I just know if I stopped my degree now I'd be worse off and I can see I'd end up on benefits without being able to find a job as I've temped over the past 2 years. And I'm only at uni 8 hours a week so can still be able to raise the little one, and hopefully by the time I am "working" he will be old enough to enjoy child care etc etc.

My opinion on benefits is that if I need them for 2 years to be able to have a better standard of living and higher earnings at the end then thats better than me just going onto benefits for a year and not really progressing. But thats just for my personal circumstances, everyone is different

silverchair

Sounds like a good plan. You obviously want to provide a good future for you & your child & just need a little help to get there. Thats worlds apart from generations who are not motivated & prefer to stay on benefits for the rest of their lives. Good luck!

thequant

abby1234519 wrote: »

Oh my plan is to lecture, basically if I did a PhD at Leeds university and had a good proposal I could get a maintenance grant from the uni directly as well as my fees paid. All I have to do is lecture in a subject and mark work etc, which obviously is good for the amount of years I'd be on research. Then I can either keep on doing that and specialising in a couple of modules or take that experience into teaching.

However yes I know not much short supply of English teachers in schools which is why I want to pursue the faculty staff route first.

And at the end of it all if there is no work in the teaching/lecturing field well I can work in publishing or maybe go back to sales. Who knows!I just know if I stopped my degree now I'd be worse off and I can see I'd end up on benefits without being able to find a job as I've temped over the past 2 years. And I'm only at uni 8 hours a week so can still be able to raise the little one, and hopefully by the time I am "working" he will be old enough to enjoy child care etc etc.

My opinion on benefits is that if I need them for 2 years to be able to have a better standard of living and higher earnings at the end then thats better than me just going onto benefits for a year and not really progressing. But thats just for my personal circumstances, everyone is different

A few things,

Before doing the Phd, you need to do an MA. Science subjects will yet you skip the Masters stage,humanities don't

for a non science Masters,they are usually self funded,where are you going to get the money for this?

At Phd level,there is some funded courses but they are extremly competitive to get on. what will you do if you can't get on a funded Phd ?

once you have done your Phd, you will find yourself in the position of so many people like you,i.e. BA,MA & Phd. Who then ask what can i do with these ? the answer is not much apart from staying in academia which makes getting these positions again extremly competitive as every one has the same idea.

with the recent cuts,humatities have had their budgets slashed,uni's are shedding job in these subjects

An ex of mine,got 4 A's at A level, bachelors (got a 1st), masters (distinction) & a doctorate from russel group uni in english lit. she went into "academia".ten years on,all she has got to show for it, is 8 hours teaching a week at an ex-poly which is on a rolling contract that has to be renewed every semester,and it's looking likely that next time it wont be renewed.

dont get me wrong,dont mean to put you off,but I do get the impression may have watched "Educating Rita" once too often