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What a long day

Posted by admin on June 10, 2011 None comments

I went to work today and just after dinner, I got sent downstairs to the office as there was a phone call for me

I answered the phone and it turned out to be my sons school, who informed me that he had fallen over and had a deep cut on the back of his head, they asked me to come pick him up, I had to say to them that I was at work and that I would try and contact my husband, ( not as easy as you might think as I had a email from him earlier, informing me that his mobile battery had completely died and we have no land-line).

Anyway, I went and told my boss what was going on and asked if I could go try contacting my husband or somebody to get hold of him so he knew what was going on, I couldn’t reach anybody so by this point I tried my parents who live in the next town over, turned out that my dad was at work, then about five minutes later my mum rang back saying that she’d rang my dad at work and they were coming straight over.

By this time, I’d already gone back downstairs and spoken to my boss, who then turned round and said to me, your son is more important than work, go, but let me know how he is”.

I got to the school and found my son sat in the reception area, holding a piece of gauze to his head with a member of staff waiting for me, my first thought on seeing him was that he looked slightly pale and then I just gave him a cuddle.

Went outside with him to wait for my parents to come and take us to the hospital via our house to let my husband know what was going on, got to hospital and he looked OK when we got there, still saw the doctor though and my little boy was brave, even though he got his wound washed with salt water to clean it, then he had to get his head glued.

Got home and he now seems unintentionally determined to get sent back to hospital, I’m on tenterhooks watching his near misses!!

 

job hunting

Posted by admin on March 10, 2011 None comments

I’ve been in my current job for over a year now and it was my intention that it was just going to be a stepping stone if you like into a job that I really wanted to do and that would suit me. For the last six months I have been looking for another job and at the beginning I really thought it would be easy, “its easier to get a job if you are in a job”….

Its now six months on and I’m actually seeing that it’s not at all easy, yeah, I’ve had a fair few interviews but nothing has come of them, am wondering how long I will be in this job.
I don’t really know what job role that I would like, I’m qualified in childcare and I’ve been told the qualification that I have is now obsolete and I would have to go back to college, but I don’t want to do childcare anymore now either.

My friends tell me that I would be good in a carer role but I don’t think that I could cope with the personal aspect of care.
I’d like a steady 9-5 job, five days a week with a good rate of pay but to do that it seems that it is all administration work and I’m just not qualified for that.

Just keeping plodding on and pushing doors to see if they open.

first day nerves….

Posted by admin on October 8, 2009 None comments

So, today was my first day back at work for about five years, feelings ranging between nervousness, excitement and guilt and becoming a working mum, even though I had no choice in matter…

Got there ten minutes before shift started to get uniform and suchlike, get handed my uniform and went to get changed, only to find that the trousers dont actually fit – GAH, because the uniform order was late I had been given the last pair of ladies trousers left in stock, in consequence the manager went hunting for a pair of trousers for me and then came back with a pair of blokes trousers, all that was left, I had no choice but to start my first shift wearing a pair of men’s trousers…

So anyhow, I got introduced to my “buddy” who would show me around and show me what to do, now on the other side of the fence so to speak you think that the staff have it easy, the amount of things that I was told made my head hurt, so many things to remember and things to do.

In amongst the various  things that I was doing this shift, I saw two of my friends from church, walk through the doors with smirks on their  faces and my first thought was “oh no thats just what I needed” as I thought one of them specially would sit and try and put me off working, but it was all ok, they both said hi and went and sat down at a table.

The staff all seem really nice and friendly and easy to work with, and everybody seemed to be trying to help as it was my first day.

Came home and it was nice to sit down and rest for a little bit, my feet actually really hurt by end of shift.

GodTV

Posted by admin on September 22, 2009 1 comments

Now that my son is at school, im out looking for work, had my first taster of the working environment in about five years last week, I was a temporary staff member for GodTV for Missons week, I was actually really nervous having never done call centre work before and my friends telling me that it was “easy and nothing to worry about” did nothing to calm me down.

I didn’t know quite what to expect other that I would be in a studio with a live broadcast happening in the same room as me with cameras pointing at the call centre team as well as presenters.

By the end of the week I was totally loving it, atmosphere was incredible and the work challenged and stretched me which was what I was hoping for, one of the best bits for me apart from the worship time before hand was getting a phonecall from a lovely old lady who had been watching Rory and Wendy on GodTV and because of that braodcast she had gave her heart to Jesus, how wonderful is that!!

The thing that most stretched me was praying with people on the phone, its not something I’d ever done and when it was brought up my immediate thought was “I cant do that” of course by the end of the week it turned out i’d actually prayed with at least two people on the phone and it was such a blessing to me to be able to pray for them.

I really hope to do the next missions week as this time it was amazing!