Day 117.
Have just typed a HUGE post and lost the lot!🙈😡. Don’t know what’s going on with this site of late but I hope it gets sorted soon 🤞🙏.
Too late to type it all out again.
Good night god bless all 😴.
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Day 218 (spot the mistake above)!🤭.
So ……. After typing a huge post last night, I was dismayed to find that it did not save but instead, just froze! Is anyone else having these kind of problems with this site? Also, if I try to edit a post, it also just freezes??
On Monday I will be back to work again! After being unemployed for 6 months for the first time in my life, I will be starting out on a new venture (at 63 so never too old to try something new)🤪. Next week I am going to work in a lovely school just a short bus ride away from my home. In fact when I did my “dummy run” on Thursday, it took me 30 minutes door to door to get there on public transport and better still, the bus puts me right outside the school and picks me back up there at home time 👌.
I was initially asked if I could do next Monday and Tuesday there, which I agreed to, however, I informed them that ideally, I would like to do 4 days per week and preferably Monday - Thursday. They have since come back to me to say that they have scheduled me in to do Monday - Thursday there next week! Long may this continue 🙏.
At my age, I quite like the idea of agency work and working in a school environment. One, I will no longer be micro managed and slogging my guts out non stop to achieve unmanageable and unrealistic targets that companies are now obsessed with. Two, the daily hours are less working in a school and as it’s for an agency, once 3.30pm arrives, I can just up and leave!👌. Three, I can dictate the hours/days I want to work every week, as long as I just put in my availability the week before.
There will be no more “logging on” to a screen and being dictated to on how long I have got for a break/lunch and how I cannot log off until the clock strikes 5pm! There will be no more “check in’s with my horrible previous line manager, who was only ever negative towards me 🤬👊. She was known to have her “mood swings” however 😲. Anyway, enough of her 👊.
Instead, I will now be working with pupils who need support, guidance and positive encouragement to help them through their day. I have years experience of all three!😆👌.
Finally, I received some lovely support from my work coach at Universal Credit. She arranged to put into my account, my bus fares to work for the next 4 weeks AND informed me that I could choose a blouse, trousers and footwear from a store, send her all the details and she would order them for me which she has now done and I am awaiting their arrival! This came to just under £100. My thoughts were at the time “that’s the least you can do, given the pittance I have been paid the last 6 months for basically slogging my guts out working from the age of 16. Nonetheless, I was extremely grateful to her for sorting this for me AND she did allow me to throw some good footwear in too - “you don’t ask, you don’t get” is my motto!😜.
Today, my sister is treating me to an afternoon out in a lovely wine bar in our village. We are both looking forward to this. Tomorrow, is her Birthday so we will be on the champagne to mark the occasion and before she goes off to her villa on Monday for a well deserved relaxing break 👌.
Take care folks and remember - “It’s never too late to try something new”!💪.
”No thoughts of gambling. No money spent on gambling. No money lost on gambling = Tick, tick, tick”!👌
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Hi Pinky
You are going to be utterly amazing, I just know this new career is perfect for you. I'm looking at a new path working in the recovery sector. At the age of 56 it's strange to think I feel I was born to do that but given the chance, I feel it's will be my vocation
I have a meeting for universal credit at the end of this month. Not been paid since October and not claimed anything but powder has run dry now.
Hope you have a great time with your sister and make some memories.
Correction - It is not my sister’s Birthday today. It is tomorrow!🤭. I was getting mixed up because we are celebrating it today 🥂🍾🎂.
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Too much fizz Pink 🩷
@lp5vut869c 🤣🤣🤣. Ended up not having any and we went with a cuppa and Birthday cake instead!😋👌.
Hope you have a good week ahead Stuart 🙏.
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Hi Pink
Good weeks as you know are a mindset. Hope your new job is great.
I've been offered voluntary peer support training in July and then peer support with a view to a job in September and October ready for my one year in November so I can work in the recovery sector if I'm allowed of course. Ive never wanted more in life than this.
Hi Pink
How is your new job going ?
@lp5vut869c That’s brilliant Stuart!👏👏👏. Very well done. You will be fantastic at this too 👌.
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@lp5vut869c Hi Stuart.
My first week back in work was lovely thanks 👌. I will be updating my diary soon so you can read my update then!🙂.
Hope you have a lovely weekend.
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I knew the answer before I asked the question lol. I was so sure that you would make it fantastic but glad to hear it is
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