Potential Career Earnings dilemma.....please help

Cherry_Bomb

Well good luck with your application! What I will say is that try not to get too hung up on the name of the university or where in the league table it is. It doesn't mean much in nursing or midwifery.
At the end of your course all the really matters is that you're a competent midwife, not where you studied.

MiddyMum

Cherry_Bomb wrote: »

Well good luck with your application! What I will say is that try not to get too hung up on the name of the university or where in the league table it is. It doesn't mean much in nursing or midwifery.
At the end of your course all the really matters is that you're a competent midwife, not where you studied.

Thank you Cherry, what area of nursing are you working in?

Cherry_Bomb

I'm working in police forensics so completely different to the usual NQ nursing job! But my absolutely dream job.

MiddyMum

Cherry_Bomb wrote: »

I'm working in police forensics so completely different to the usual NQ nursing job! But my absolutely dream job.

Oh wow, that is brilliant! That will be a very interesting job, good luck hun x

Dunroamin

Just as a matter of interest, how do you plan to pay for private education at the same time that you plan to save 50% of your salary as you said on an earlier thread?

MiddyMum

Dunroamin wrote: »

Just as a matter of interest, how do you plan to pay for private education at the same time that you plan to save 50% of your salary as you said on an earlier thread?

I am sure I will figure it out by then. She won't be going for another 8 years.

dizzyrascal

MiddyMum wrote: »

I would like to add that I want to give my daughter the best if I can. All mothers do, but I am just prepared to work really hard for it. My time and love is a given but I still want to give her oppurtunites I never had. That's just my opinion.

I understand what you are saying but as you seem to be thinking about secondary level education have you thought about preparing your daughter for a scholarship instead? It will be a huge struggle on the level of salary you are talking about so it might be worth finding out what's available in your area

There are other issues to consider too. If you manage to educate your daughter privately but you have to reduce your Standard of living to achieve it then you have to consider how your daughther will feel is she doesn't want to invite her friends back home. she is likely to be mixing with the children of millionaires who have luxury holidays, ponies and palatial homes.
This sort of exposure could have the opposite effect you are hoping for.

Wealthy, spoilt children can be a quite a nasty breed in the playground.

I have three children and my ex wanted them to go to private school, which they did for a few years. When he cleared off I could not afford it so they went into the state system. My youngest began in the state system at the age of 9. The older two went into the secondary state system and on paper they were both brighter and had been privately educated for longer.
You would expect the older two to be more successful but it is my youngest who got the best degree, much better A levels and GCSE,s and is now professionally qualfied with much larger earning potential than the other two.

I have to say that I am a great advocate of the state system because of this, especially as I experienced both systems.

MiddyMum

dizzyrascal wrote: »

I understand what you are saying but as you seem to be thinking about secondary level education have you thought about preparing your daughter for a scholarship instead? It will be a huge struggle on the level of salary you are talking about so it might be worth finding out what's available in your area

There are other issues to consider too. If you manage to educate your daughter privately but you have to reduce your Standard of living to achieve it then you have to consider how your daughther will feel is she doesn't want to invite her friends back home. she is likely to be mixing with the children of millionaires who have luxury holidays, ponies and palatial homes.
This sort of exposure could have the opposite effect you are hoping for.

Wealthy, spoilt children can be a quite a nasty breed in the playground.

I have three children and my ex wanted them to go to private school, which they did for a few years. When he cleared off I could not afford it so they went into the state system. My youngest began in the state system at the age of 9. The older two went into the secondary state system and on paper they were both brighter and had been privately educated for longer.
You would expect the older two to be more successful but it is my youngest who got the best degree, much better A levels and GCSE,s and is now professionally qualfied with much larger earning potential than the other two.

I have to say that I am a great advocate of the state system because of this, especially as I experienced both systems.

Thank you for this post, my daughter is only 2. So yes, private secondary education is what I was hoping for. Although, I have considered grammar schools, not scholarships though... If I am right, with grammar schools she would need to pass a test? As you can see, I haven't thought about it all in a lot of great detail as it is a long way off.

I will say though, your post has given me a lot of food for thought you have mentioned quite a few things I hadn't considered. I do want my little girl to grow up a gronded individual.

Dunroamin

MiddyMum wrote: »

I am sure I will figure it out by then. She won't be going for another 8 years.

Mmm, I thought you hadn't put the two desires together.

Spirit_2

MiddyMum wrote: »

From speaking to midwives already in the profession, they say most midwives don't progress past band 6. Or maybe that is just the ones who don't want too...

The senior ones don't grow on trees so some must progress.