parents bankrupt - student grants

setmefree2

EdgEy wrote: »

So you go to work at 9, get home at 5, get the food on, feed kids, then you have what? 1 hour of time with your children a day?

That's assuming you actually do 8 hours a day 7 days and not skewed towards the weekdays, in which case you'd basically not see your kids during the week.

I would like you to draw up a timetable for either a university student working _full-time_, or for this hypothetical lone parent. I think you're ignoring the essentials that take up time like eating, sleeping, showering, going to the shops every now and then...

oldernotwiser is retired. I don't think he/she has any idea what a busy day is!

As PaulW1965 said this board is full of posters who are obviously unemployed, underemployed or retired and have nothing better to do than tell everyone else that they should get a job lol!

You couldn't make it up!

Oldernotwiser

setmefree2 wrote: »

oldernotwiser is retired. I don't think he/she has any idea what a busy day is!

As PaulW1965 said this board is full of posters who are obviously unemployed, underemployed or retired and have nothing better to do than tell everyone else that they should get a job lol!

You couldn't make it up!

ONW looks after a severely disabled husband and only stopped work a couple of years having done this on top of a demanding professional job for some time.

As you should know, most of my working life has been spent advising and teaching students so I'm very well aware what is and isn't possible, as opposed to being the parent of a couple of pampered kids who can't fill in a form without daddy hanging over their shoulder!

(By the way, dragging your friends over here from other boards to support you is considered pretty close to inventing an AE just to have them agree with you!)

Lokolo

setmefree2 wrote: »

oldernotwiser is retired. I don't think he/she has any idea what a busy day is!

As PaulW1965 said this board is full of posters who are obviously unemployed, underemployed or retired and have nothing better to do than tell everyone else that they should get a job lol!

You couldn't make it up!

Surely someone who is retired has already had this experience?

melancholly

right, if this is an oxbridge college, there are some options.

1. more grants than most places available. contact a college tutor to ask about it or look for uni grants (cambridge lists them all in the reporter, don't know about oxford)
2. long long long holidays! you have a much better change of temping work than most students since you are available for longer.
3. term time work - granted, this isn't "allowed" but there are creative ways of earning money. one option is joining OTC - not everyone's cup of tea, but you get "paid" for attendance (plus apparently cheap drinks!). college bars sometimes require student staff (i'm still not sure how this gets round the rules, but it does; i did it!)
4. sign up for may balls as a worker. if may not give any money in the short term, but you can earn a lot that week.


you may have an expensive room, but you should only have to pay in term time, making it cheaper than halls at most unis across a year.

your college will not want to drop out due to financial problems. they will have access to funds in a way than other unis won't, so make the most of it and ask them for help.

setmefree2

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

ONW looks after a severely disabled husband and only stopped work a couple of years having done this on top of a demanding professional job for some time.

As you should know, most of my working life has been spent advising and teaching students so I'm very well aware what is and isn't possible, as opposed to being the parent of a couple of pampered kids who can't fill in a form without daddy hanging over their shoulder!

(By the way, dragging your friends over here from other boards to support you is considered pretty close to inventing an AE just to have them agree with you!)

Thank you for this useful post. It's soooo useful on the internet to know exactly who one is getting advice from. It's great to know you were a top professional with a demanding job and that your not just some bored housewife with nothing better to do with her day.

Keep up the great work. YOU ROCK!

Fang_3

setmefree2 wrote: »

Thank you for this useful post. It's soooo useful on the internet to know exactly who one is getting advice from. It's great to know you were a top professional with a demanding job and that your not just some bored housewife with nothing better to do with her day.

Keep up the great work. YOU ROCK!

Wow. I think ONW has you spot on.:rotfl:

wintersunshine

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

ONW looks after a severely disabled husband and only stopped work a couple of years having done this on top of a demanding professional job for some time.

So you live on benefits? Why can't you get a part time job?

wintersunshine

Fang wrote: »

Wow. I think ONW has you spot on.:rotfl:

or smf2 has ONW spot on Living on benefits whilst telling students to get a job is just plain odd. This site is like one flew over a cockoo's nest some days.....

custardy

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Fortunately, student finance assessment never takes debt repayments into account. As above, you need to get a job.

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

I don't doubt that she does it, but it doesn't mean it's a good thing.

There's more to university life than studying and graduate employers like to see that students have used their spare time productively, not just flipping burgers.

so get a job or not?

Fang_3

wintersunshine wrote: »

or smf2 has ONW spot on Living on benefits whilst telling students to get a job is just plain odd. This site is like one flew over a cockoo's nest some days.....

There definitely seems to be more 'cockoos' here.;)

You realise that ONW is a pensioner right? One that spent her professional working life in and around education, which is just one of the many, many reasons she's infinitely better placed than you or your 'friend' to advise.;)