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Masomnia

Just heard from the company and I'm going down for an assessment on Friday. Looking forward to it.

Except that if I get offered this job in the next couple of hours I'll have to call back to cancel... So I don't really want to book the train tickets yet, just in case. It's £46.20 one way, which is non-refundable, so just a bit of a waste if I don't end up going. Apparently you can get expenses from the Uni Credit people, but I'll have to enquire about that.

I have got half a mind to turn them down. It's only 6 months fixed term (ideal job is permanent), it's £14k (£24k for the other), it's basically just admin (other is a lot more HR involved, recruiting, advice etc.). The local one is just fixed for 6 months; I asked, and as it's a maternity cover they were honest (to be fair) that it was highly unlikely that it will be for more than six months, so I'd be back to square one. The London one is set to develop into a better role as long as you're up to it.

But I really don't want to be doing all this application stuff any longer than I have to, and I want to work and earn money and get experience...

Tricky.

ETA: I've just thought as well since I'll be in the Blackfriars area Friday I might take the opportunity to go up the Oxo tower

Nikkster

SingleSue wrote: »

You'd be jealous of mine, one big on/off switch and one slider switch for the central heating.

The only controls I have are the on/ off (and a wheel if you want to set times) and scale of 1-10 (or something like that ) for each of the hot water and central heating. These are all on the boiler itself.

Old school central heating.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

This is the bit that I need to get my head round to understand.

"There's no point, for example, having the thermostat set to 30C and the individual rad stats set at 18C. But the other way round works reasonably effectively."

the thermostat in the hall controls the boiler and the pump that circulates the hot water through the radiators. If you have the thermostat set to 30 C, the house will never get that warm, and the pump will stay on the whole time circulating the hot water in a forlorn effort to get the house to 30 C. At the same time, if you have the individual radiators stats set to 18 C, these will all turn off at that temperature. So, the hot water will continue to circulate round the system without entering any of the radiators. There will be some heat losses in the pipework, so the boiler will turn on and off fairly frequently to keep the circulating water hot. This is all a very bad idea.

On the other hand, if you have the individual rad stats set to 30 C, the radiators will be open all the time to let the water through. However, the thermostat in the hall will switch the boiler and pump off once the house reaches 18 C, or whatever other temperature you set the hall thermostat to. that is how the systems used to work before individual radiator thermostats became common.

The hall tends to be a little bit cooler than the living room, so setting the hall thermostat to 18 C means the living room will probably be around 20 C.

GDB2222

Masomnia wrote: »

Just heard from the company and I'm going down for an assessment on Friday. Looking forward to it.

Except that if I get offered this job in the next couple of hours I'll have to call back to cancel... So I don't really want to book the train tickets yet, just in case. It's £46.20 one way, which is non-refundable, so just a bit of a waste if I don't end up going. Apparently you can get expenses from the Uni Credit people, but I'll have to enquire about that.

I have got half a mind to turn them down. It's only 6 months fixed term (ideal job is permanent), it's £14k (£24k for the other), it's basically just admin (other is a lot more HR involved, recruiting, advice etc.). The local one is just fixed for 6 months; I asked, and as it's a maternity cover they were honest (to be fair) that it was highly unlikely that it will be for more than six months, so I'd be back to square one. The London one is set to develop into a better role as long as you're up to it.

But I really don't want to be doing all this application stuff any longer than I have to, and I want to work and earn money and get experience...

Tricky.

ETA: I've just thought as well since I'll be in the Blackfriars area Friday I might take the opportunity to go up the Oxo tower

I wouldn't get too excited about the £10k difference in salary. Living and travelling costs in London can eat that up. If you live cheaply with your parents at the moment, you might well be a lot better off financially in your home town on the lower salary.

Even flat-sharing, you would be looking at at least £100 pw rent in London, plus rates and other bills in.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

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Cheers, I think that makes sense. Never had a thermostat before so it's a whole new type of heating to me. My parents had been retired before they even got central heating and then it was a gas fire back boiler circa 1970s that was in the house they bought. Each rad had a knob to turn.

I had a boiler once, but it had no thermostat, it was either on, off, or on a timer. Not really sure how temperature was controlled on that though, but the individual rads had temp control.

PasturesNew

Got a couple of things to sort out, then it's a round robin for some furniture purchases..... back in a bit.

Masomnia

GDB2222 wrote: »

I wouldn't get too excited about the £10k difference in salary. Living and travelling costs in London can eat that up. If you live cheaply with your parents at the moment, you might well be a lot better off financially in your home town on the lower salary.

Even flat-sharing, you would be looking at at least £100 pw rent in London, plus rates and other bills in.

Certainly would cost a lot more to live there, but it'll cost a lot here too, as I'd have to buy, tax and insure a car which won't be cheap and I do contribute a bit to the running of the house anyway.

It's more how the job will set me up for the future that I'm thinking about.

In any case I'm probably worrying over nothing as it's not looking like I've got the local job anyway! Never mind the one I really want.

I've booked the train tickets, as I think even if I did get this job and accept it it'll still be a good experience to go down, and to meet the recruitment consultant. Worth keeping in touch with him I reckon.

mystic_trev

PasturesNew wrote: »

Cheers, I think that makes sense. Never had a thermostat before so it's a whole new type of heating to me.

I've never used a timer, I just leave on the heating 24/7 and run it from the thermostat. Turn it up in the morning when I get up, and down in the evening when I go to bed.When the weathers nice the heating won't kick in unless it gets really cold. I also leave the radiators off in a couple of bedrooms when I'm not using them.

zagubov

SingleSue wrote: »

Getting Josh statemented was an absolute nightmare, the school wouldn't support the statement, they refused to accept his diagnosis (they didn't do the referral for diagnosis, his paediatrician did) and also labelled him a trouble maker, unteachable etc. Even despite having a formal diagnosis, the school refused to allow the specialist outreach service to work with him....the outreach service had finally convinced them and were actually on the way to the school the day he got perm excluded.

Youngest's school however were completely different (this was after I moved him from the same school as Josh after they ignored the pre school advisory teacher's 2 page list of things they needed to do and in doing so, his only just started language was back to screaming again), they completely supported the statementing process and any advice that was offered to them from other services and he had the support of the specialist outreach service from the word go there.

It is actually quite amazing the difference between schools and their attitudes, I was lucky with youngest with his new infant and junior school, the junior school especially going out of their way to accomodate him and make changes, which in the end, benefited other differing needs children, not just autistic ones and they became a school of excellence for special needs children. When youngest finally moved on, they said the changes made at the school was his legacy to other children with differing needs.

Youngest's 'key' is technology, specifically Apple products and gaming, although his key doesn't always work...apart from to lock the gates to him completely from time to time.

James has an offer of work experience from the high school he attended, so hopefully, he can then get an idea of what he has let himself in for! Personally, I think he is mad to want to do it....whilst also very proud that he wants to do it.

That's an uplifting postabout the boys but the bit in bold made my day.::T

Yorkie1

Spirit wrote: »

he saysthe payback will be being well again.

I love this quote :beer:

lemonjelly wrote: »

That's actually my biggest fear I think. It's very likely to happen, & I dread it in so many ways.

If I allow myself to think about the future, it's a fear of mine too.

I found out some old NUS photo cards the other day of me.
Dated 1995-1998. I still have & wear the coats & tshirts I'm wearing in 2 of them!:eek:

It was only last year that I finally decided a blouse I'd worn in 6th form (late 80s) from Dorothy Perkins was now too shabby round the cuffs to wear to work ...