Plodding determinedly up a 300k mountain!

Busy_Mee1

You are doing brilliantly well Michelle. I am sure you will be perfectly professional, dedicated and smart. Good luck !

michelle09

Thanks Busy Mee! I'm just nervous about being able to get onto one of these programmes. I am sure I am capable of succeeding if I get on - I got the highest mark on two of my three degree courses and have the support of people who have completed them before - but these are so competitive just to get funding that it's unreal. It's where I'm not sure I'll manage it.

You could be easily fighting 100 people for every place (my friend and old coworker beat 170 for theirs) and in some ways it's who you know once you've hit the basic qualification bench mark. Monday's meeting might be my chance to get my foot in the door so am panicking a little.

Of course, OH has pointed out that not getting does mean I also won't get the £20k/year paycut. So we would be financially much better off!

Watty1

Am sure you will rock the professional dedicated and smart

muddywhitechicken

Best of luck for Monday's meeting

beanielou

Hope all goes well on MOnday.

Karmacat

Good luck for Monday! Hope it goes the way you want it to go.

greent

Hope it went well today x

michelle09

Thanks everyone! I think it went ok. It was a meeting with someone who would be my boss if I got the position, but isn't part of the recruitment team. I was hoping I'd be out of this type of recruitment (I don't get a say in the recruitment of any of my staff either, it's not ideal) but we will see?

Not working today (hooray!) so am writing up my application for that position, which is a 10 page monster.

Good MSE news - had a student with a last minute panic about an exam last night, so made £70 there. Sold our oven for £40 on FB, someone is coming to pick it up at the weekend. Not bad considering it would have been dumped with the rest of the kitchen! Paid overtime at work has been stopped due to budget cuts so gotta make the numbers up somewhere.

Kitchen people came round for a check this morning, starts on Monday! Now in a wonderful mix of excitement that it's finally happening, panic becase there is so much to do and nerves that something will go hideously wrong. But in five weeks it should be all new and shiny.

The cat loves one of the kitchen guys, was up on her hind paws sniffing his fingers the whole time. Really funny.

Current Balance: £246,700.00

try_harder

Five weeks is very quick .How exciting .

michelle09

I really hope so! Fingers crossed it all goes according to plan.

It's Saturday. And a non-working Saturday, which is wonderful. Having a lazy morning, curled up on the sofa with the cat. This afternoon I'm going to carry on with applications - hopefully something will come of one of them soon.

Oven buyer has pulled out because "it's not wide enough". Well I put the dimensions on the advert so what were you expecting exactly? Annoyed because I turned down another (albeit lower) offer but now can't get hold of that person and it has to go by tomorrow. So probably lost out on that.

Have sold our dining table/chairs and hopefully that buyer will show up tomorrow. That we don't need to shift - it would just be easier pre kitchen. We got it really cheap before we bought this house but it's too big. We don't have a separate dining room and it takes up nearly a third of our living room. Shame as it is very nice.

Not much else on the MSE front. My credit card has flipped to a 0% so my plan is to pay for 4k of the kitchen on that which saves us dipping too far into our savings. Will then clear it in March once we've saved an extra 4k out of paydays. (The 0% is for 18 months so we are miles clear).

On a sadder news front, one of my grandmothers friends (they are the last two of their friendship group of eight) has started to refuse food and been taken into hospital. Will take my grandmother to visit her on Monday. It's really sad but if someone doesn't want to live any longer, I'm not sure what you can do. Next Saturday would have been Grandad's 92nd birthday and the following Monday is a year since we lost him so it's going to be a hard week.

Current Balance: £246,700.00