Hi everyone! blummin eck, but life has got away from me the last few weeks- think I need to go to an open day at UWE soon so I can remind myself I am actually going to college, not just slogging away paying the bills in a rubbish job! given how little I earn anyway, three years of beans on toast won't be a major hardship for me! My bosses are oblivious of my intentions, but heyho, not going to rock the boat just yet!
The whole purpose of me applying for OT is so I can have a decent salary and a career I'm proud of. I'd love to work within the NHS, but I'm ok with the private sector. Sadly, this country is going to shift further and further away from public ownership of non-essential (read not life and death) healthcare, so I guess I just have to accept the inevitable!
As to care-type jobs, anyone thinking of applying for care work as a means of supplimenting their student income, please remember CRB checks can take a while. I'm going to start applying in july for agency and relief roles, as I know how long it can take, particularly if you haven't had a CRB for a while- my first job in care took 2 months before the CRB came back, though that was probably because I was out of the country for four years. I don't overly want to go back into support work, but its a means to an end.
Must start getting into this whole facebook nonsense. I have an account with them, but I never use it, as I find I get utterly sucked into checking what everyone's said, and suddenly I've spent an entire evening responding to people who I barely know and with whom I have nothing meaningful to say
again, I must accept the inevitable, I suppose...
Based on the open day, by the way, what did everyone think of the accomodation? Based on cost (glenside I think works out as £100 a week for 41 weeks. ouch...) it seems like the most expensive way to get a room (I'm used to renting rooms privately) but the easiest way to guarantee a room. What does everyone think so far?
I'd love to know if people are looking for private accomodation. I think its the cheapest way, and I have no desire to live in halls again if I can avoid it!