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House_Elf_2

Ladyshopper wrote: »

They both passed thanks for asking. We are doing applications this weekend for jobs!

Their course tutor wasn't that great I don't think, he told them they have to do 2 hours training a month, but didn't tell them how they can do it, where they can do it, or who can sign it off. I did try and impress on them how important it was to get all the details, but of course they didn't!

Am sure your son will be absolutely fine and pass with flying colours. My kids tutor reckons he hasn't had a single failure and taught around 800 people.

DD is a Lifeguard as one of her portfolio of jobs! She has to do Staff Training once a month which is paid for by the pool she works at.

wookeyhole1

itch_for_a_glitch wrote: »

Take him to ASDA and show him how people who fail exams end up .:p

Tell him he can always succeed (if, as you say, he is bright), but it will be sh**loads easier if he does some work now. I know, from bitter experience.

that's not fair! :( I worked hard in my exams and have various qualifications but I like my job and it fits in with my life and childcare at the moment

asset2004

Mumto2monkeys wrote: »

Not necessarily, a very good friend of mine who had a very good job, that needed good qualifications and a high standard of education now works in sada, she got fed up of her job being more about target meeting and form filling than the actual people.

She works on the tills and couldn't be happier, she gets regular shift patterns and says there's no stress at all if you can cope with the constant beeping of the tills.

Life is all about balance as long as you make enough to pay the bills does it really matter what job you do as long as you are happy.

I've even thought about it myself, stacking shelves with no one to answer to apart from the odd falling tin, finishing at an allocated time, no work related phone calls to answer at 9pm on an evening, no emails that need an urgent response when you are out with the family on a Sunday afternoon....

I couldn't agree more. Having been in a similar boat to your friend I completely agree
Regular shift work, no stress and no emails/calls at crazy times of the night or day and expected to reply straight away, there's much more to life than money.
The bills are paid, and I'm enjoying the free time I have now. :T

Savvybuyer

:hello:
Just looking at some Quorns as was going to buy some Turkey Style & Sage Slices at straight £1 from A, but now note they are ridiculous 3 for £4.00:(. And I'm not paying even more expensive now individual price £1.50.

However, I notice some other Quorns are £1.96 and that some of them are showing 2 for £3 on msm whilst some are just showing straight £1.96. Have they really left some of them off and on straight £1.96 no mbuy in store or are all £1.96 ones on 2 for £3? I notice Quorn Meat Free Sausages 8 pack are showing the 2 for £3. Do we think one pack of these and one (or odd number) of Quorn Chicken Style Burgers 252g vs Morries? Last of which says straight £1.96. Hoping both pick up M pricing - they should do.

The Sausages 8 pack are 99p in M and, for those who can't see it, the Chicken Style Burgers are also 99p in M.

EDIT: Straight price on some could well be right:(, but I can't tell. The 2 for £3 is also with other items such as Linda McV Veg Saus (do not mix - now £2:eek: in M) and lollies packs, so it could be, indeed, that only some of the £1.96 Quorns have been selected by A for the offer. However, perhaps they're all in it, I don't know?

asset2004

wookeyhole1 wrote: »

that's not fair! :( I worked hard in my exams and have various qualifications but I like my job and it fits in with my life and childcare at the moment

exactly, nothing wrong with that. :T
What's worse is the people who contribute nothing, they are living free on benefits and haven't worked a day in their life.
In my area there's second and third generation of people on benefits and junkies who get a free house, disability cars and have the most modern up-to date stuff, they are a drain to society :mad:

House_Elf_2

rhosynbach wrote: »

thanks x not sure the asda bit will work:o he says every job is important as the next and some people are happy being dustmen while others are happy being lawyers and we should all find the job we are happy in no matter what others think of it.
and in proof he says dd2 oh loves his job and works on the recycling lorry,

I will try telling him it will be easier to choice the job he wants to do if he gets the qualifications,and to get them he needs to work hard, do not want to pressure him to much he is only in year 10, and I am not sure I approve of the school putting so much pressure on young pupils..

I like your DS philosophy. He will go far. ...........clearly takes after his DM!

Bananababe

House_Elf wrote: »

I like your DS philosophy. He will go far. ...........clearly takes after his DM!

Hello lovely hope you feel better soon xxx

rhosynbach

Mumto2monkeys wrote: »

Does he have an idea of what he'd like to do??
If he does then that will make it easier for him to know what levels etc to aim for, if he's no idea then that's more difficult... Also moc exams are just a practise... Some thing that will help him work out how much more work he needs to put in to reach his own personal targets.
Does he revise, started revising?

If not a timetable is great way of making sure he covers everything but not 24/7 he needs time off to digest the info etc and to chill, if he knows his subjects then the nervousness will subside... In the confidence gained from revising and remembering...

Hth
If not ignore my waffle:)

Not waffle, great help as a lot of the elite have been, so thanks everyone, a revision timetable is a great idea he is doing 5 subjects this year (a year early) the rest next year, I think its how quickly they have come up on him, and also the time of to chill, say 2 hours revision, then he can go horse riding or kayaking, or cycling, but keeping to the timetable.
he is not sure totally what he wants to do, he is going to do law at college and computers as he thinks he would like to work in one of those two areas but he also did work experience with horses and could see a future there.

Savvybuyer

fairclaire wrote: »

I'm seeing this election as a vote to keep people out rather than a vote to get people in. It's all so up in the air

Tactical voting:D. I'm seeing this thread as an election/politics-free zone, so have deliberately not been posting anything in relation to it or mentioning it in any way (until this post now:doh:). I even had a money-saving reply for mhoc several weeks ago but didn't bother and instead embargoed it until after the election, but likely forgotten it completely now!

It's all impossible to predict. That much I know and I'm being completely objective in standing back from it. There is a coalition combination that I think would be disastrous and hoping to avoid it, but no idea how I could vote to ensure a different one, and we could end up with anything. Anything else I would add at this point would be politics and making a political point of one kind or another so I'm not bothering saying anything further. Quite why I impose this restriction on myself as if I were a TV presenter and as if this thread were a TV programme I don't know, as I could be completely partial, I'm not subject to any of those rules and could give all my views. However, as usual, you know my views are so wholly complex that it would take five hours to write them all out and I'd have no laptop left at the end of it (still having probs with that btw) so I'll refrain. (For my sake not the laptop's:rotfl:.) I suspect I see myself as not wanting to influence anyone's vote, although quite why I see that I don't know! In relation to this I could comment on what one politician said the other day but I've stopped myself again. --EMBARGOED--

itch_for_a_glitch

[QUOTE=itch_for_a_glitch;68207087]lol. I wasnt thinking of the staff in ASDA, more their customers:p

Your son and I might see equal worth in jobs(not sure about lawyers mind.), but paychecks say different.
Dustmen and recyclers are both honourable jobs btw. A couple of mates are on the bins, not much fun in the winter though.[/QUOTE]

wookeyhole1 wrote: »

that's not fair! :( I worked hard in my exams and have various qualifications but I like my job and it fits in with my life and childcare at the moment

Working hard and doing well gives you choice. Some dont have that choice.