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  • beanielou
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  • Sun_Addict
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    Glad to hear you sounding more upbeat. Friday tomorrow 🥳
    I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)
  • Alchemilla
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    I hope you feel much better soon.
    I hear you on the job. I've loved it for 30 years and I'm leaving education in April all being well. X
    What are you going to do next? 
    Civil service. I hear there is an exodus of teachers that way.
  • @Buffythedebtslayer You are the only other person I have known even to admit to seeing The Tourist. I am working my way through it and am slightly obsessed by it. Mind you, I am slightly obsessed by Australia in general - especially the Outback parts. We spent a month on holiday there years ago and I regret not moving there, if only for a few years.
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  • @Alchemilla I found that the Civil Service was even worse than teaching. No children to make you laugh or fetch and carry for you. Hope you've found a better bit of it than I did. I thought of it as the Civil Servitude...
    Credit card One :£926.60( Oct 21 )(Nov 21 vet bill disaster), £999(Jan 22), £974(Feb 22)
    Credit Card Fl :£739.26 (Oct 21)£763 (Nov 21) , £590(Jan 22), £298(Feb 22)
    Savings target C.U.  £1000(£410 Oct 21)(£610 Nov 21)
    Savings target Bank £500  (£10 Oct 21) (£50 Nov 21)(£60 Jan 22)(£80 Feb 22)
    Credit Union loan paid off. Now for the funeral plan...
  • Alchemilla
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    @Alchemilla I found that the Civil Service was even worse than teaching. No children to make you laugh or fetch and carry for you. Hope you've found a better bit of it than I did. I thought of it as the Civil Servitude...
    Thanks...I think!

    I watched The Tourist and loved it. I so wanted to murder the cop's boyfriend!
  • Sun_Addict
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    @Alchemilla I've been in the Civil Service for just over 21 years and love my job. I'm a Private Office PA and more or less left to my own devices with no one breathing down my neck, which is what I love about it. Once you're in it's relatively easy to move around until you find something that suits you. We have a lot of ex teachers in our department.
    I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)
  • Oh yes, wasn't he awful? She had so much potential and he was SO controlling!
    Credit card One :£926.60( Oct 21 )(Nov 21 vet bill disaster), £999(Jan 22), £974(Feb 22)
    Credit Card Fl :£739.26 (Oct 21)£763 (Nov 21) , £590(Jan 22), £298(Feb 22)
    Savings target C.U.  £1000(£410 Oct 21)(£610 Nov 21)
    Savings target Bank £500  (£10 Oct 21) (£50 Nov 21)(£60 Jan 22)(£80 Feb 22)
    Credit Union loan paid off. Now for the funeral plan...
  • . We have a lot of ex teachers in our department.
    Why is that do you think? Does the Civil Service pay better? Most teachers in Scotland are getting between £30 00 to £45 000. Is there a lack of permanent teaching positions? This doesn't seem to be happening in Scotland.  How strange !
    Credit card One :£926.60( Oct 21 )(Nov 21 vet bill disaster), £999(Jan 22), £974(Feb 22)
    Credit Card Fl :£739.26 (Oct 21)£763 (Nov 21) , £590(Jan 22), £298(Feb 22)
    Savings target C.U.  £1000(£410 Oct 21)(£610 Nov 21)
    Savings target Bank £500  (£10 Oct 21) (£50 Nov 21)(£60 Jan 22)(£80 Feb 22)
    Credit Union loan paid off. Now for the funeral plan...
  • Sun_Addict
    Sun_Addict Posts: 24,075 Forumite
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    . We have a lot of ex teachers in our department.
    Why is that do you think? Does the Civil Service pay better? Most teachers in Scotland are getting between £30 00 to £45 000. Is there a lack of permanent teaching positions? This doesn't seem to be happening in Scotland.  How strange !
    The ex teachers I’ve spoken to have become disengaged with teaching. They generally come in at a higher grade so pay range starting at £52k (£59k for London) going up to well over £100k if they progress higher. 
    I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)
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