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Alchemilla

What is your focus when the house stuff is done?

Buffythedebtslayer

Alchemilla said:

What is your focus when the house stuff is done?

I don't know. 

I have been pondering that. 

Sun_Addict

Today I’ve been on a panel selecting job applications to go through to interview for jobs in the Civil Service department I work in. I can’t believe the amount that were from teachers and it was for a fairly low grade role too. 

Buffythedebtslayer

Sun_Addict said:

Today I’ve been on a panel selecting job applications to go through to interview for jobs in the Civil Service department I work in. I can’t believe the amount that were from teachers and it was for a fairly low grade role too. 

In in the leaving teaching groups the Civil Service is the first suggestion, people will take pay cuts, huge pay cuts to get out. It is very tough at the moment. People are leaving in droves! 

beanielou

Buffy. Please don't say this just as B is going to start his PGCE in a few weeksw!!

Buffythedebtslayer

beanielou said:

Buffy. Please don't say this just as B is going to start his PGCE in a few weeksw!!

I am hoping it is different where you are! 

efes_shareholder

My niece has just qualified as a sociology teacher at secondary level
she found the training year tough 
I’m thinking she has little idea what she is letting herself in for 
I encouraged both of my younger two to take up teaching as I thought they would excel at it , neither were keen 
reading lots of posts on here I’m glad I didn’t press them too hard 

milann

Happy weekend 👍

Buffythedebtslayer

Teaching is great, the actual pure class room thing is brilliant. Schools are horrible places to work. The pressure, the paperwork, the constant scrutiny. When a school is due ofsted Monday and Tuesday are the worst, given things to do, prove this prove that by yesterday, spot checks, meetings, more checks, more documents. You struggle through Wednesday aware of the amount you have to do
and are exhausted by Thursday and then Friday when there hasn't been a phone call you briefly relax, collapse into the weekend to prepare to do it all again the next week. 

And I know that in the real world there is pressure in work and I don't expect work to be stress free at all. I just think it is unreasonable. But maybe the world is unreasonable! 

Buffythedebtslayer

Alchemilla said:

What is your focus when the house stuff is done?

I think it will be focussed on the debt. Mum has been watching a lot of homes under the hammer and these people who buy old houses and do them up which sort of had me wondering about house  but then I thought about the impending financial crisis and winter.... decided saving is the way forward and for that to make sense it has to be debt repayment. 

Currently at 6500.  

Mechanic is actively looking for a car, so that should be good. Best get on with house work. XXXXXX