On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 06:02:27AM +0000, Syd Hancock wrote:
FWIW: One thing that I have found in my own life is that getting angry about feeling hard done by is a sort of vicious circle that perpetuates itself. It's easier to feel angry at everyone else than to do something about it - I still do it myself far too often. Worth thinking about?
Oh, I think like this anyhow, just sometimes you get to the end of your tether... more below if you want I can tell you the whole story sometime but it won't be very short :)
BTW have you discussed options with your adviser at the Job Centre? I found that there were some very useful advice sessions available when I was last signing on two or three years ago.
Hmmmm, the sum total of help that the jobcentre can give me is "we can offer you a CLAIT course" I have asked both when I was signing in Cambridge and now that I am in Cromer these questions, to be honest in Cambridge they seemed shocked when I asked them for extra help that they offer, I don't think it happens very often! In Cambridge they never could provide me with any advice on starting my own business! "We don't know anything about that" At least in Cromer they have been more helpful but due to the way things work they can't help me with any training until I have been unemployed for 6 months :( although they also said that EU funding and help would be available but I need to live in Cromer to get any help (yes, my MP and MEP will be beaten up on this too).
Why not do a degree for example or even consider something like teaching? I think you'd be very good at it. And it's worthwhile, well paid and will certainly require all that pent-up energy that you have!
I am doing a degree! I am an open university student, just that doesn't help with any quick fix training etc. (and it isn't cheap, I am not eligble for any help with funding due to the way they work out your income) I have to say that the other reason I am pissed off with City College is that last year I tried to get on the access course for engineering only to be told "oh, we havn't run that course for 7 years and we won't be running it this year. The only reason we advertise it is to see if we get enough interest to run it next year" I have tried to get on a CISCO course there, and I have also tried to get other computing and IT courses in the past and been given various other crap excuses which means they have never actually been able to offer me anything worthwhile :(
To be honest, this women into networking ******** is the last straw for me, I have been trying to get higher or further education for so long now that I figure I may as well give up. It appears that they don't want technical people as students, I have been offered plenty of courses in things that I don't really have an interest in (like needlework or whatever) :( or the other options have been becoming a plumber or sparky or chippy or something, but the trouble is that I have a bad back so am not capable of doing much manual type labour.
Oh when you say teaching... hmmm, i think i'd rather not thanks all the same, I think that I wouldn't have the patience to deal with pupils ;) Also I remember the young teacher I house shared with in Cambridge and how much money she had vs. how much money I had when I was just a junior sys-admin I wouldn't necessarily use the phrase well paid on the job description :)
Anyhow, thanks for the suggestions Syd, does anyone know of somewhere I can go that has some clue about options for training and education in Norfolk? (that doesn't require you to be a single mother from an ethnic minority that only speaks a non-native language) (that is a joke, just in case the rabid PC rabble don't get it) or any other help I can get? I am buggered if I can find it.
Adam