In pursuit of Health, Wealth and Happiness

ZTD

Tete_en_l'Air wrote: »

It's just a bit of a stigma to still be living at home at my age isn't it?

Doesn't everyone live at home? Well...apart from those living in hotels...

Circumstances are different for everyone. If anyone is giving you gyp over it, show them you counting to one - using your middle finger.

Tete_en_l'Air wrote: »

Yes - I'm only at the very beginning of my journey (without wishing to sound like an X-Factor contestant) - obviously if I go for classroom experience and hate it I'll have re-think.

Not only that, but if the jobs you'd like are only available to someone with 10 years teaching experience (to pick an example) - then you'd have to think whether you'd like just to do general primary education.

That's why finding these "opportunities" in black and white is important. It should give you all the details you need to make better decisions.

Of course once you are a teacher, then other non-teaching opportunities with (for example) the LEA can open up if you decide snivelling kids are not for you...

Tete_en_l'Air

I said I'd try and do something each day towards each goal so here goes:

Health - Diet started today. I dusted off my myfitnesspal profile and I'm feeling hungry so it must be going well

Wealth - I've sorted an ebay pile and taken a few photos so I can get some listings done. Also booked (via Quidco) my advance train tickets to London for when I go to NYC in Oct - a spend in the short-term but a massive saving in the long term. Also checked my banks so I have an idea of where I am.

Happiness - Fired off a few emails to teachers I know, and I'm heading to bed with some bedtime reading I printed off the DfE website last week.

Phew - I'm definitely ready for my bed!

PS. My apostrophe key is sticky so if I've missed any please blame it and not me - I'm a stickler normally, honest.

Tete_en_l'Air

ZTD wrote: »

Doesn't everyone live at home? Well...apart from those living in hotels...

You know what I mean, don't be facetious.

Circumstances are different for everyone. If anyone is giving you gyp over it, show them you counting to one - using your middle finger.

No one's ever said anything to my face but I do wonder what they really think sometimes.

Not only that, but if the jobs you'd like are only available to someone with 10 years teaching experience (to pick an example) - then you'd have to think whether you'd like just to do general primary education.

That's why finding these "opportunities" in black and white is important. It should give you all the details you need to make better decisions.

Of course once you are a teacher, then other non-teaching opportunities with (for example) the LEA can open up if you decide snivelling kids are not for you...

Yes of course, it's possible that I won't be able to find a job once I qualify but aren't all the best things in life a little risky?

ZTD

Tete_en_l'Air wrote: »

You know what I mean, don't be facetious.

Are you wanting me to not breathe at the same time?

Tete_en_l'Air wrote: »

No one's ever said anything to my face but I do wonder what they really think sometimes.

Perhaps "There but for the Grace of God go I."

It's all in the circumstances...

Tete_en_l'Air wrote: »

Yes of course, it's possible that I won't be able to find a job once I qualify but aren't all the best things in life a little risky?

They are. But if you want them, and not to just dream of what could have been, then yanking the odds over in your favour is totally allowed.

Dinah93

ZTD wrote: »

No, actually village schools are easier to get to, given equal amounts of snow - though they normally get more. The farmers tend to keep the roads open; the parents tend to be local, and so used to the weather; and it's usually the other people who can't drive (there are loads in towns) that stop you travelling - not the snow per se.

Sorry but I really disagree with this, having lived 40m from a village school for 8 years, and about 200m from a different village school the 6 years before that I can guarantee they were closed a lot earlier than the school I attended in the big town nearby. I can also say neither university Tete is talking about were closed during the 4 years I spent at Newcastle and the year at York (different York uni but still central) due to snow - and I never missed a class at either due to bad weather. The school in my last village was very hard to get to as the hill coming down to the village didn't get sun until the afternoon, so overnight it froze into something akin to a ski slope and was completely impassable even in my 4x4. It's not so much the children getting there, as they usually walk from within the village, but the teachers, the majority of whom live nearby but not within the village. Hence why our county has the policy that if a day is declared as treacherous weather teachers should report to the nearest school within their authority, rather than their usual one. This often does not help, for example the school at the end of my mums road with 180+ infant and junior pupils, she doesn't teach there usually. On snow days there is only ever her and the usual reception teacher there, they still can't do anything with 180 children so the school closes anyway. As someone who drives upwards of 100 local miles a week for work I can also say I've never gotten my car stuck on the A roads going to work, but the local village roads especially on the moor can be a complete nightmare. It is very, very rare that through the winter months some of my usual roads are not officially closed by police, usually only for a day or two but it can be longer. Heck the winter before this a road within 5 miles of my office that I use frequently was closed under 6m of snow - one of my colleagues had to be rescued after several people had to abandon their cars on the road (driving with snow chains on and has been a moors driver for over 20 years so in no world not used to or prepared for snow).

Kepp

Hi Tete :hello:

Stalked you from Dinah's diary, hope that's ok

Off to catch up now.........

Tete_en_l'Air

Ugh. Power just went off at work for 50 minutes - computers, lights, heating, everything. I was thinking "If it gets to 12 I can legitimately leave and say I'll 'work from home'" - and the bloody power cam back on a quarter to! Not happy

Hi Beccie! :hello:

Kepp

Rubbish about the power cut - don't you hate those situations where you think if only I'd gone 5 minutes earlier!

Caught up on your diary now - you're sounding very organised and focused at the moment

Are you crocheting anything at the moment? I started the vintage stripe blanket for my Mum and have really fallen behind at the moment. It's not needed till Xmas but being double bed sized and with me being away for a week in September and a month in November I really should be getting a move on

shrimpy_80

Swim a mile? Where is the 'falling down in a faint' smilie? I only do about half an hour at a time as I go before work so would be late if I did much more, although I guess there is nothing stopping me going in the evenings! I will still have to do sums to convert the metres to miles but I do like that idea, thanks!

I also love that you are doing something each day, this thread is really inspirational!

That is rubbish about the power cut!

Kittikins

What a pain about the power cut, I'm working from home today whilst waiting for the electricity board to come and do something dull to my electricity supply, listening to a Radio 4 programme on procrastination in i-player and............procrastinating!

I should be contacting DD's school and others to try and get myself a placement, but am putting it off until I know in a few weeks when I will be leaving my job. I should also be brushing up my Latin, or even posting off the cheque for the couse! Hmm, I have a loooong list of things to do....

I don't have any qualification in it, but did study it for a couple of years and took Ancient Greek and love etymology of words, so really believe that children should learn some Latin, maybe whilst doing their Roman topic.