A little bit about you....

[Purpled]

Hi Laura! It's hard knowing what you want to do! I was the same! I left uni and got a job in an office on £7 an hour. I felt so disappointed in myself as I knew I was capable of more. Anyway a job came up as an accountant and I went for it. Got it, more money I think it was £17k but I was v happy. Then another 2 promotions later I'm earning a good wage....hate my job and kind of wish I was back on £7 an hour with no responsibility. Will I ever be happy?

But I'm actually thinking of doing a nursing degree! My OH said he can support me if I wanna work part time, or if I wanna study once we have had a baby. But it's a big step to take. I'd love to go into midwifery or something like that.

So is there any chance you'd wanna work in law? Or you gone off the idea? Do you like numbers? Lots of accountancy firms take on accountancy assistants and pay for them to do AAT course while in the job! Or most councils, local government jobs will give you free nvq type courses while in the job! bulks out cv and makes it more current.

Sorry if this isn't helpful....I just thought id try help

 

[icklerockchick]

Thanks purple.

I do believe that if you know what you fancy doing you should totally go for it, no point wondering what if.

My problem is not really knowing. Defo not law, especially from the experiences of my friends that went on to pursue careers in it - it's all heavily focused on raking in the money for the firm and very little about doing any good for anyone. Also so cut throat they can get new graduates in and pay them very little to do all the work and then when you get to the end of it they get rid of everyone as they have new ones to replace them with.

Sadly due to the economic situation the local councils are all getting rid of people and not taking anyone on its only internal jobs. Might look into accounting its not something I really have a passion for but would much rather use my brain for something! X

 

[sarah88]

Gave u ever thought about being an assistant for a solicitor, I hear they get paid a fair bit and u wouldn't have the shittyness of being a solicitor?!

 

[bulldogdaisy]

Hi Laura! It's hard knowing what you want to do! I was the same! I left uni and got a job in an office on £7 an hour. I felt so disappointed in myself as I knew I was capable of more. Anyway a job came up as an accountant and I went for it. Got it, more money I think it was £17k but I was v happy. Then another 2 promotions later I'm earning a good wage....hate my job and kind of wish I was back on £7 an hour with no responsibility. Will I ever be happy?

But I'm actually thinking of doing a nursing degree! My OH said he can support me if I wanna work part time, or if I wanna study once we have had a baby. But it's a big step to take. I'd love to go into midwifery or something like that.

So is there any chance you'd wanna work in law? Or you gone off the idea? Do you like numbers? Lots of accountancy firms take on accountancy assistants and pay for them to do AAT course while in the job! Or most councils, local government jobs will give you free nvq type courses while in the job! bulks out cv and makes it more current.

Sorry if this isn't helpful....I just thought id try help

Sounds like there is nothing to hold you back,worth looking into Purp :0)

 

[Ella Belle]

Hi, I need to properly read through all of this later to get to 'know' everyone on but here's a bit about me.

I'm Molly, I'm 31 and live in the South East of Ireland. I bought a house 6 years ago right at the wrong time to buy property as it was ridiculously expensive so now I have a huge mortgage which sucks but hey I'm not alone in that! I live with my OH in my home town/village, we've been together about a year and a half which isn't long but I'm happier than I have ever been, he is definitely the one for me I also have a labrador who I love more than anything else in the world. I have a degree in psychology, which I have never used. I work in administration and have done for years. I'm always saying that I'll go back to study further so I can get a job I enjoy but with the mortgage situation it is very difficult. I have a company car where I work and don't have to pay car tax or insurance and I just wouldn't be able to afford to buy a car if I moved jobs and there is zero public transport around here so I need a car. Anyway, it's grand, maybe in a few years when me and OH are more settled I can look into it again. I spend a lot of time looking after my Mam and Dad who are both not really very well or at least they need a good bit of care. I get pissed off about it sometimes but it's not too bad at the moment and my sister is moving home for a year with her family so that will take a lot of pressure off me and give me a bit of a break from it. I've also been very active, playing all kinds of sports and swimming a lot. Over the past few years I've started jogging which I love and I also love the gym and working out. I take my dog jogging with me every time I go outside, she loves it too although I go far too slow for her!

The diet thing is very complicated, I was never over weight as a child but it was then that my food issues began. Things were not very great in my house growing up and my response to it I guess was my relationship with food. I'm a food hider and binge eater. I had a very negative relationship with food and dieting from when I was about 7 but it really kicked off when I left home. When there was nobody watching me I would have serious binges and I didn't know to question why or more accurately I didn't want to question why as I didn't want to face all the emotional crap in my head. Anyway, after years of this and lots of diets and drama I did the Lipotrim diet starting in October of 2010. It was without a doubt the best thing I have ever done for myself. Taking away food made me really look at all the issues I had with food, and I began to really understand why I had the issues I had, it made me face up to everything and accept it. It was kind of like I finally took away the drug and allowed myself to feel and process the reasons why I was using it. This may sound all very dramatic but it really is true. I had always been a person who was very sunny on the outside but very very cloudy and miserable inside and it had gotten very bad a couple of times over the years. During my two months on LT I kind of cured myself of all the 'weight' I'd been carrying around since I was a child. I can't really explain it properly but since that time I have been such a healthier person, I'm happy now and I could never have said that before. I did put the weight back on that I'd lost but the eating this time was from habit, not from emotional stuff. So that's what I have to learn to do now, I need to learn to break habits I've had for 23 years. That'll be easy right??? I know it's going to take years for me to properly be okay with food but if I can manage to maintain I know will still work at it.

So, that's me

 

[Ella Belle]

Oooops..didn't realise I'd written so much..sorry about that x

 

[bulldogdaisy]

Oooops..didn't realise I'd written so much..sorry about that x

Wow don't be sorry, I feel like I know so much more about you now! Well done on your degree,is it something you do want to use later on?its a shame you can't change jobs right now but i'm sure circumstances will change in the future so you will be able to.Well done on beating all those food demons,sounds like you have come very far with it which is a great achievement! We will all get there in the end with support!

 

[claireyfairey]

Finally going to do this, then off to bed with me!

I'm Claire, I'm 27 and mummy to a gorgeous little girl, Isla Elizabeth who is 4 in September I've been with her Daddy for 8 years in September (bar a 6 week period in October/November last year when we briefly split). I'm a student (on Summer hols at the mo!) studying primary school teaching at the university of Hertfordshire, after completing a year long access course and retaking my science GCSE when Isla was 2. We live in a grotty council flat but have (mostly) lovely neighbours and our family live nearby so we have a lot of support - I wouldn't be able to do my degree if it wasn't for family watching Isla for me. Um, what else to tell you....hopefully getting married in 2014 with a bit of luck.....tell you what, I am going to finish this tomorrow xxx

 

[Becktoria79]

Oooh another wedding on this forum to look forward to! X

 

[weemissnaughty]

Hiya im new and i found this thread and found it really interesting, my name is lesley-anne and im 25 and from glasgow but live just outside it with my b.f and two gorgeous little kitties, loki and betty im a chef to trade bit hated the hours and the sexest men who treated girls different ("ooh a girl... You can do the desert section and bake cakes!" grrr lol) so im currently working in a cafe 6 days a week and starting at 6am which isnt ideal as ive been there fr two years and this week is my first holiday ive had! Alsowith the early starts and my closest friend a work being 50 i started to feel really old an depressed and drab... So i decided to get a move on, i applied to uni and sart mental health nursing in september and dyed my hair back to red and joined weight watchers, i feel more like "me" now, i think i lost myself for a while.
Im a big geek (though obviously a cool one ) i Love sci fi and fantisy ... And shakespeare and period dramas lol i ADORE dr who with david tennant being the love of my life i spent last night in heaven watching him in hamlet (my fave shakespeare play, i have a quote from it tattood onto my foot) mmm. I love reading too, i have a ridiculous amount of books, the best ive read lately is night circus, so unusual and amazing! I spend unhealthy amounts on amazon to fund my habbits ive also started to learn tarot which isnt everyones cup of tea but i find the symbols etc interesting.
I love music, anything from metallica to frank sinatra, the doors etc, as long as it makes me feel something i listen to it, more or less the same with movies, if it can evoke an emotion, any emotion, i will watch it,
I have always been a bit bigger and at school i more or less stopped eating and went from a size 18 to an 8, but obviously once i started eating i put it all back on... I joined weight watchers at 21 and lost 3stone but my then b.f decided i was ugly lighter and wouldnt kiss me and would make my favourite food and wave it under my nose... Needless to say that wasnt good for my confidence and i (stupidly) put it back on, plus another stone.... I dabbled with sw and have rejoined weight watchers and ive lost 10 and a half pounds so far and im starting to get my confidence back... I have been too embarassed to go clubbing with my slimmer friends because i just felt like the fat ugly one but im getting over that now.

Omg i didnt mean to write this much!!!! Sorry

 

[Becktoria79]

Yeay a dr who fan! Love love love dr who and love torchwood even more, except miracle day which I was really upset with, think was way too americanised!
Welcome to our little bunch! X

 

[Ella Belle]

Welcome Lesley-anne It sounds like you are on the right track to being happier for yourself which is great. Are you planning to do Simply Filling or count propoints?

 

[icklerockchick]

Nice to learn a bit more about you nice to have someone local too!!

I sympathise with the early starts I start at half6 some days and hate it!! Wish I had normal hours and not have to work weekends Bleh!! Guess I have a bit of a cheek complaining when I'm just back after 7months off injured ;-) x

 

[weemissnaughty]

Yeay a dr who fan! Love love love dr who and love torchwood even more, except miracle day which I was really upset with, think was way too americanised!
Welcome to our little bunch! X

Yeah i agree, i love torchwood too but miracle day bugged me... Im hoping captain jack will be back next season of dr who (along with another thing im a tad obsessed with... The daleks) since it is th 50th anniversare of dr who!

Welcome Lesley-anne It sounds like you are on the right track to being happier for yourself which is great. Are you planning to do Simply Filling or count propoints?

My plan is to try simply filling most days with pp as a back up if i want to snack etc, ive been doing propoints for a while now and just fou d out about simply filling... Suppose i will see how weigh in goes whether or notit agrees with me

Nice to learn a bit more about you nice to have someone local too!!

I sympathise with the early starts I start at half6 some days and hate it!! Wish I had normal hours and not have to work weekends Bleh!! Guess I have a bit of a cheek complaining when I'm just back after 7months off injured ;-) x

Haha well ive only got 7weeks left till im a student bum again cant wait... How do you find getting up so early affects how you eat? Because im up at 5ish, by 3pm it feels like dinner time but my b.f doesnt get in from work untill 6ish so i tend to eat loads of junk between those times x

 

[icklerockchick]

Yeh working at odd times makes mealtimes hard. If I am hungry I will usually try and eat something like toast or crumpet that's free on simply filling and have water or tea then wait half hour or so and if I'm still hungry have something proper. Of course I am not that angelic all the time but I do try at least rather than just snack.

A lot of people find they use their points a lot more sensibly on simply filling as all your treats have to come out of weeklies rather than being able to eat a load of junk using your daily points as well if that makes sense? So hopefully it will help you to make better choices too sounds like it already since you've hardly used any weeklies. X

 

[weemissnaughty]

Yeah ive had a bowl of porridge about 1pm and its kept me going till seven for dinner... But that said im off this week so next week will be totally different lol!

 

[bulldogdaisy]

Hiya im new and i found this thread and found it really interesting, my name is lesley-anne and im 25 and from glasgow but live just outside it with my b.f and two gorgeous little kitties, loki and betty im a chef to trade bit hated the hours and the sexest men who treated girls different ("ooh a girl... You can do the desert section and bake cakes!" grrr lol) so im currently working in a cafe 6 days a week and starting at 6am which isnt ideal as ive been there fr two years and this week is my first holiday ive had! Alsowith the early starts and my closest friend a work being 50 i started to feel really old an depressed and drab... So i decided to get a move on, i applied to uni and sart mental health nursing in september and dyed my hair back to red and joined weight watchers, i feel more like "me" now, i think i lost myself for a while.
Im a big geek (though obviously a cool one ) i Love sci fi and fantisy ... And shakespeare and period dramas lol i ADORE dr who with david tennant being the love of my life i spent last night in heaven watching him in hamlet (my fave shakespeare play, i have a quote from it tattood onto my foot) mmm. I love reading too, i have a ridiculous amount of books, the best ive read lately is night circus, so unusual and amazing! I spend unhealthy amounts on amazon to fund my habbits ive also started to learn tarot which isnt everyones cup of tea but i find the symbols etc interesting.
I love music, anything from metallica to frank sinatra, the doors etc, as long as it makes me feel something i listen to it, more or less the same with movies, if it can evoke an emotion, any emotion, i will watch it,
I have always been a bit bigger and at school i more or less stopped eating and went from a size 18 to an 8, but obviously once i started eating i put it all back on... I joined weight watchers at 21 and lost 3stone but my then b.f decided i was ugly lighter and wouldnt kiss me and would make my favourite food and wave it under my nose... Needless to say that wasnt good for my confidence and i (stupidly) put it back on, plus another stone.... I dabbled with sw and have rejoined weight watchers and ive lost 10 and a half pounds so far and im starting to get my confidence back... I have been too embarassed to go clubbing with my slimmer friends because i just felt like the fat ugly one but im getting over that now.

Omg i didnt mean to write this much!!!! Sorry

Yay love geekness! And great taste in music! Well done on becoming a student! It's good to hear that you have found yourself again and make sure you do go out and have some fun ;0)

 

[Atomic pink]

Just stopping by quickly (going to watch David Attenborough documentaries in bed with OH as that's what the cool kids do on a friday night ) and wanted to say welcome to the SF forum.

And to be nosy and ask what your Hamlet quote tattoo is? I am unnaturally obsessed with Hamlet. I would have married Hamlet if I could have at 17.

 

[weemissnaughty]

Its "to thine own self be true" it was kind of a motto for me, i tried to be tanned, blonde etc etc and one day i just stopped and thought why?! And decided to be what i wanted and not be pressured into anything and this quote seemed to sum it up... Im finishing the david tennant hamlet just now because i fell asleep half way through last night x

 

[Becktoria79]

Haha Atomic I love your crush on Hamlet! That's ace! We should have a little forum with weird crushes, mine would be king Charles II he was a proper one in his day, and the moustache and long locks- swoon!