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So I've finished my first week at work and it's going really well, everything's really manic at the moment since they are new posts and no one knows quite what is going on but it's great to be there right at the beginning of things. I've been really lucky as all my schools are really close to where I live so it's dead convenient, I know the area and it will help whenever I want to take a sneaky flyer, especially since I'm no longer working flexitime. It's really exhausting as there's so much training, some of it I know from uni but a lot is completely new to me, and then there's all the mandatory training like children protection stuff, infection control and information governance. The latter is a huge thing since quite a lot of data has been going missing in the U.K. But they are all day or 2 day long courses so it's difficult trying to fit everything in.
The only minor problem I'm having is with one of the women who has started the same post as me. She's been working with children all her life, and was really canny at first until she found out I had a degree, then her face dropped. I don't think she's happy with the fact that at 50 this is the highest paid job she's had and she has the exact same post as a 23 year old. But isn't that why you go to uni? To get better jobs and get paid more? (and to learn obviously!) Everyone else just told me to ignore her, and I won't be seeing much of her after half term anyway. It doesn't bother me, I've been perfectly pleasant to her so I've got nothing to be embarrassed about, especially not going to a top three school and almost working myself into an early grave for three years. You tend to find that people like her have a problem with education, but I'm not some rah from private school who had everything handed to them on a plate, or some superhuman genius. I worked my arse off and still got poorer marks than people who didn't work at all and she shouldn't be so judgemental.
The head of services has even pointed out that, while it was my degree that landed me the job (I'm the first to admit I have the least practical experience out of the four new starters, but the most theoretical knowledge) it wasn't absolutely compulsory but in a few years a degree is going to be essential for the same sort of post. Higher education is becoming so important and so much more widespread that this seems to be the case with most jobs. Not that I have a problem with this, university eduaction is no longer just for the rich and priveleged and people should be putting a higher value on education.
On a completely unrelated nore: Haha Geordies, haha. The league table is beginning to look a little more like it should be. Once again we are the top in team in the North East, Cumbria and Yorkshire. If we and the Mackems are still in the relegation dogfight, then you bloody are too.
Movie Quote of the Day
Mike Enslin in 1408: "Finally! Something to for me to write about! A ghost that offers turn down service!"
Quote of the Day
Randomer in Pub: "Keegan's not the fucking Messiah!"
Dad: "He's a very naughty boy!"
The only minor problem I'm having is with one of the women who has started the same post as me. She's been working with children all her life, and was really canny at first until she found out I had a degree, then her face dropped. I don't think she's happy with the fact that at 50 this is the highest paid job she's had and she has the exact same post as a 23 year old. But isn't that why you go to uni? To get better jobs and get paid more? (and to learn obviously!) Everyone else just told me to ignore her, and I won't be seeing much of her after half term anyway. It doesn't bother me, I've been perfectly pleasant to her so I've got nothing to be embarrassed about, especially not going to a top three school and almost working myself into an early grave for three years. You tend to find that people like her have a problem with education, but I'm not some rah from private school who had everything handed to them on a plate, or some superhuman genius. I worked my arse off and still got poorer marks than people who didn't work at all and she shouldn't be so judgemental.
The head of services has even pointed out that, while it was my degree that landed me the job (I'm the first to admit I have the least practical experience out of the four new starters, but the most theoretical knowledge) it wasn't absolutely compulsory but in a few years a degree is going to be essential for the same sort of post. Higher education is becoming so important and so much more widespread that this seems to be the case with most jobs. Not that I have a problem with this, university eduaction is no longer just for the rich and priveleged and people should be putting a higher value on education.
On a completely unrelated nore: Haha Geordies, haha. The league table is beginning to look a little more like it should be. Once again we are the top in team in the North East, Cumbria and Yorkshire. If we and the Mackems are still in the relegation dogfight, then you bloody are too.
Movie Quote of the Day
Mike Enslin in 1408: "Finally! Something to for me to write about! A ghost that offers turn down service!"
Quote of the Day
Randomer in Pub: "Keegan's not the fucking Messiah!"
Dad: "He's a very naughty boy!"