Ideas needed! Finding 4 hours of work?

Rumpleskintskint

workin9to5 wrote: »

Sorry I am confused- you are asking for help on how to maximise your benefits through working as few hours as possible- and people are okay with this??

Why dont you get a FULL time job and support your own brats rather than bringing more and more into the world that silly !!!!!!s like me have to pay for???

If you'd care to read the original post, you'd see that not only was I working 30+ hours (still am, actually, until March) which is considered "full time" until the company I work for restructured and cut the hours, but also that I am actively looking for employment with more hours.

My partner doesn't go off out to work precisely so that we don't end up woth the sort of "brats" that most middle class working families in this country have - aggressive, frustrated little thugs as the result of constantly being palmed off onto other non-parental carers.

As a final note... kindly take your social responsibility soap-boxing elsewhere... as if it came down to it I'd happily plunder every personal item you own and burn your home to the ground to feed my "brat". I have little to no concern about pilfering some of your hard earned tax money to do so. Sorry.

tomjonesrules

Rumpleskintskint wrote: »

If you'd care to read the original post, you'd see that not only was I working 30+ hours (still am, actually, until March) which is considered "full time" until the company I work for restructured and cut the hours, but also that I am actively looking for employment with more hours.

My partner doesn't go off out to work precisely so that we don't end up woth the sort of "brats" that most middle class working families in this country have - aggressive, frustrated little thugs as the result of constantly being palmed off onto other non-parental carers.

As a final note... kindly take your social responsibility soap-boxing elsewhere... as if it came down to it I'd happily plunder every personal item you own and burn your home to the ground to feed my "brat". I have little to no concern about pilfering some of your hard earned tax money to do so. Sorry.

Whilst workin9to5 may phrase his posts rather abruptly he does raise a valid point - why do you not seek more hours? Plenty of children grow up healthy and happy whilst having two full time working parents!

newmumincov

If you have transport, from my experience home care agencies can be very grateful for people who are willing to work early in the morning or late evening, particularly at weekends. When I worked as a carer there were a few ladies who did an hour getting people every morning 7.30-8.30 am before going to work in their main job at 9am. I tended to specialise in weekend and evening work, and could pick up as much work as I wanted once I got my foot in the door and had a bit of experience. In fact I ended up working 20 hours per weekend.

Rumpleskintskint

tomjonesrules wrote: »

Whilst workin9to5 may phrase his posts rather abruptly he does raise a valid point - why do you not seek more hours? Plenty of children grow up healthy and happy whilst having two full time working parents!

Again, please read the first post, AND the one you quoted, and you will see that I've now confirmed *twice* that I'm looking for a job with more hours. Obviously, though, I'm not going to sit back and allow my family to become homeless in the meantime.

As for that latter comment - no, 2 year olds who are left in the care of strangers (nannies, childminders, nurseries) do not grow up particularly healthy, nor happy. If you can provide any (non anecdotal) evidence to the contrary, I'm all ears... but, you won't be able to.

tomjonesrules

Rumpleskintskint wrote: »

Again, please read the first post, AND the one you quoted, and you will see that I've now confirmed *twice* that I'm looking for a job with more hours. Obviously, though, I'm not going to sit back and allow my family to become homeless in the meantime.

As for that latter comment - no, 2 year olds who are left in the care of strangers (nannies, childminders, nurseries) do not grow up particularly healthy, nor happy. If you can provide any (non anecdotal) evidence to the contrary, I'm all ears... but, you won't be able to.

So this is the reason for broken Britain, little Timmy can't manage without mummy for a few hours each day? Get over yourself! A quick Google shows a 2003 report from the University of Bristol that completely contradicts your assertion!

Rumpleskintskint

tomjonesrules wrote: »

So this is the reason for broken Britain, little Timmy can't manage without mummy for a few hours each day? Get over yourself! A quick Google shows a 2003 report from the University of Bristol that completely contradicts your assertion!

A large part of the reason for Broken Britain is the sub-standard, uninvolved, distant parenting that results in vast swathes of apathetic and disillusioned teenagers and young adults. The sort who have no concept of self-worth beyond a nice car. Or a credit card. Debt and overspending broke Britain - that is a fact - and people are FAR more likely to equate money with happiness if their parents have palmed them off onto strangers to buy them a few more toys.

I have a degree in Psychology - focussed heavily on Child Psychology - and all of the aforementioned non-profit projects I mentioned in this thread are centred around the effects of the sort of useless hands-off parenting you're advocating. I'm afraid citing one study isn't going to sway me - and I'm not subjecting my children to SuperNanny for the sake of working longer hours. Money > children? That's the sort of thinking that broke the entire damn planet.

HOWEVER - I didn't come here to get into a parenting debate - I have enough of those elsewhere with the rest of the formula-feeding, leaving-baby-to-cry, off-to-nursery scum that makes up the vast majority of this country. I've gotten more than enough good advice from some very helpful people on the first page, and will happily leave you all in your whining Daily Mail misery. Good luck with it. And good luck to your children, should you ever have any.

Charityworker

Wow isn't workin9to5 brave? Registering another account so that he/she can troll. Very commendable. I've been on a lot of forums in the past and come across people like you. Very impressive. Troll from behind a computer screen but won't let anyone know who you really are.

At no point did anyone on this thread say they weren't looking for a full time job. I've applied for 6 full time jobs just this week. I need a bridge until I find a full time job and I'm sure thats what the OP wants too.

It's interesting that one of the top news topics this morning is this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16395019

I'm sure that if it's a choice between making ends meet and feeding your family or not you would do what we are talking about doing.

Now I'm not going to waste any more time talking to this breed of troll. Theres one (or more) on every forum. I'm beginning to wonder if it's always the same person. Lol.

tibawo

I have read this thread with interest. There's some food for thought.
Good luck in the pursuit of extra hours - and thanks to people who have raised some interesting jobs ideas.

carolinep1

Rumpleskintskint wrote: »

A large part of the reason for Broken Britain is the sub-standard, uninvolved, distant parenting that results in vast swathes of apathetic and disillusioned teenagers and young adults. The sort who have no concept of self-worth beyond a nice car. Or a credit card. Debt and overspending broke Britain - that is a fact - and people are FAR more likely to equate money with happiness if their parents have palmed them off onto strangers to buy them a few more toys.

I have a degree in Psychology - focussed heavily on Child Psychology - and all of the aforementioned non-profit projects I mentioned in this thread are centred around the effects of the sort of useless hands-off parenting you're advocating. I'm afraid citing one study isn't going to sway me - and I'm not subjecting my children to SuperNanny for the sake of working longer hours. Money > children? That's the sort of thinking that broke the entire damn planet.

HOWEVER - I didn't come here to get into a parenting debate - I have enough of those elsewhere with the rest of the formula-feeding, leaving-baby-to-cry, off-to-nursery scum that makes up the vast majority of this country. I've gotten more than enough good advice from some very helpful people on the first page, and will happily leave you all in your whining Daily Mail misery. Good luck with it. And good luck to your children, should you ever have any.

Absolutely fantastic response and very, very true.

silvercar

Rumpleskintskint wrote: »

My partner doesn't go off out to work precisely so that we don't end up woth the sort of "brats" that most middle class working families in this country have - aggressive, frustrated little thugs as the result of constantly being palmed off onto other non-parental carers.

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The same middle class working families that pay high taxes to fund your benefits that allow you to spend time with your children?