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butterflyghost) wrote2014-09-10 03:37 pm
butterflyghost) wrote2014-09-10 03:37 pm
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Yay! Good News!
Well, I think it's good news anyway.
After the RayK decision that he was going to drop out of college and get a job, my son has not only changed his mind, but got back in full time. Basically, he scared himself witless with the reality of the job market at the moment, and the discovery that - hey - he's poor. Who is he to turn down a grant?
We had a good long talk about things, and turns out he was dropping out because he was worried his girlfriend would leave him if he went the uni route. (She has a full time job at a supermarket, and he was thinking that they might drift apart if he did something else.)
Anyway, he's realised that while he has nothing against working at the sumpermarket or in a factory, and might do it part time, he doesn't want to make a career of it, and that if he spends a year like that his brain will melt, and he'll probably hit his line manager and up jobless anyway. And he missed the routine of going into college, studying in the library, turning in his assignments etc. He had no idea how boring looking for work was, or how depressing the actual job market is.
So, today we went in to see if it was too late for him to sign up for a course, and his tutor took one look at him and said 'oh, thank God.'
Unfortunately the course they originally accepted him for (Creative Writing) is all full up, but they said he can switch next year. In the meantime, he's doing his first year in (wait for it) business studies. He's like, 'what the hell?' But it will stretch and challenge him, and he'll learn something useful and new. And, oh, thank God, his grant was still available, hadn't been assigned to anyone else yet. (If we'd gone in tomorrow they would still have had him, paid for the academic but he wouldn't have had the living grant, or the travel bursary.)
So, yay! Big stress of this mother's mind.
Other than that... back still achey, limping around a bit. Happier in my head than I have been. Andride_4ever has her tickets sorted and will be here in just over a month! We will run around squeeing!
When I was in Toronto, I was running around going '\\\0/// the buildings are so big!' Ride, when you get here, we'll run around going '\\\0/// the buildings are so old!'
In other words, I've had a reasonably good day.
After the RayK decision that he was going to drop out of college and get a job, my son has not only changed his mind, but got back in full time. Basically, he scared himself witless with the reality of the job market at the moment, and the discovery that - hey - he's poor. Who is he to turn down a grant?
We had a good long talk about things, and turns out he was dropping out because he was worried his girlfriend would leave him if he went the uni route. (She has a full time job at a supermarket, and he was thinking that they might drift apart if he did something else.)
Anyway, he's realised that while he has nothing against working at the sumpermarket or in a factory, and might do it part time, he doesn't want to make a career of it, and that if he spends a year like that his brain will melt, and he'll probably hit his line manager and up jobless anyway. And he missed the routine of going into college, studying in the library, turning in his assignments etc. He had no idea how boring looking for work was, or how depressing the actual job market is.
So, today we went in to see if it was too late for him to sign up for a course, and his tutor took one look at him and said 'oh, thank God.'
Unfortunately the course they originally accepted him for (Creative Writing) is all full up, but they said he can switch next year. In the meantime, he's doing his first year in (wait for it) business studies. He's like, 'what the hell?' But it will stretch and challenge him, and he'll learn something useful and new. And, oh, thank God, his grant was still available, hadn't been assigned to anyone else yet. (If we'd gone in tomorrow they would still have had him, paid for the academic but he wouldn't have had the living grant, or the travel bursary.)
So, yay! Big stress of this mother's mind.
Other than that... back still achey, limping around a bit. Happier in my head than I have been. And
ride_4ever has her tickets sorted and will be here in just over a month! We will run around squeeing!When I was in Toronto, I was running around going '\\\0/// the buildings are so big!' Ride, when you get here, we'll run around going '\\\0/// the buildings are so old!'
In other words, I've had a reasonably good day.