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[bearsarecoming]

I think my plans for this year might have just been scuppered. I'm having a dilemma regarding work and college and which one is more important. Well I know which one is more important to me, but the other is a necessity and...shit, what do I do

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[bearsarecoming]

Yeah I know, that's what should have happened with me too. The problem is my mum took me out of school when I was 14 because I was bullied. So while everyone else was doing their GCSE's I was sat at home watching films. Now while that gave me quite a good education it's sadly not one that universities will accept! Shame, eh?

[bearsarecoming]

There's an adult learning grant which works like EMA and gives you up to £30 depending on income. You have to be at college for 12 or more hours a week to claim it so I need to find out the timetable. It's not much but if I could get a part time job with that it'd be alright.

[bearsarecoming]

The problem is Simon's parents give him a monthly allowance which is over the weekly limit to get benefits but not enough to pay bills. We tried for housing benefit but because Simon can have a student loan, that gets put down as income even though he hasn't taken it :/ I might try for an adult learning grant, I think it works like EMA depending on your income. It isn't much but it'd help.

I could but you have to do it for the entire year. I've just finished my English one and I got 3 A's and a B on my coursework so I know I can do it.

I could do but it depends on when his rota is. He used to drive me to my English one but on exam week I had to go a few times when he was working and I ended up missing a bus and standing outside the station until he finished work at half 11 so I could get home. Such a mish!

[lizsaintliz]

If you don;t want to move back home (and moving back home might mean Simon has to move out too, or else find a flatmate) I guess I'd say you might have to sacrifice seeing Simon? that's awfully lame. I think I'd advise you to try and find a part time job before cementing the decision to take night courses and not see Simon, but if it turns out that's the only way? I guess look at it as a temporary sacrifice? It's a pity Simon's hours are so hard:(

[bearsarecoming]

He said he could carry on living here if I left with his work money and parent's allowance. Trouble is home is kind of depressing. It was like I'd get up and then what? There were no buses, no one would be home to take me to town, we never had nice food and I was lonely and unhappy. Add that to a loss of independence and that's a nasty cocktail you've got yourself.
I agree it's an alright temporary sacrifice, I just got really excited about doing film and media studies. When I first started English I was working part time and it was all good. Then I started full time and I'd be too tired to go or I'd be falling asleep at my desk and I couldn't take things in properly =/
Time to join you and look for bar work?

[lizsaintliz]

Oh yes...don't go home then, because that way badtimes lurk!
Youd be perfect for film and edia studies. I think mybe doing that plus maths gcse and whatever would be good. So yes, barwork? I'm scared to work in bars. It might toughen me up and stuff though.

[bearsarecoming]

Yeah me too, we're too sensitive for the kind of people who go to bars. What if we get punched or groped or something? I've seen a part time bar job down the road actually, 16 hours a week at minimum wage. How's yr job search going?

[cut_paste_twist]

MEEP!!!
How long would you have to school without seeing Simon? Cos if it was just one term, you guys might want to just suck it up if it means a happier future and you being more fulfilled. but if yr going to be miserable without seeing him, well i guess its what makes you more miserable.
anyways, i'm with everyone else, just go start applying for shift work everywhere and see what you can unearth before you give up yr dreams.
p.s. can i just say PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY WOOOOOOOOOO. *ahem* no bias here.

[bearsarecoming]

A year, but I think I'm just gonna cope with it tbh.

[glowering]

That's a really sucky situation man. My instinct is that the evening course is your best best, though I don't have any experience to base that on really.

[bearsarecoming]

Nah I think you're right, I'm gonna try and do those two and fit one other course in during the week, probably on my day off.
x
p.s. I watched you on TV, your dad is awesome!