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11:03am
11:03am, 25 Feb 2025
62,935 posts
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EvilPixie
Understandable LF
I wanted to be a vet but didn’t take the right exams!
Careers advice was fill in this multi choice questionaire (like a lottery ticket) and we’ll send it off for a magic computer to tell you your fait.
It suggested forensic science
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11:13am
11:13am, 25 Feb 2025
13,253 posts
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leaguefreak
I was all set to apply for a biochemistry degre and at the last minute just before ucca form time I decided I wanted to something else. I've had a lovely career and it was the right decision.
Strangely though Mr LF was all set to apply for chemistry degree at the same uni which would have put us on overlapping courses and in some of the same lectures. He flunked his a levels and took a different path so neither of us went. We met 10 years later online.
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11:16am
11:16am, 25 Feb 2025
13,254 posts
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leaguefreak
First pass of DLA form done. We have a list of all the stuff we need to ask the social worker to help with.
Time for a walk
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11:17am
11:17am, 25 Feb 2025
11,388 posts
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IdrisTheDragon
Well done on DLA form - I have heard they are not fun things to fill in
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11:18am
11:18am, 25 Feb 2025
62,937 posts
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EvilPixie
I did my degree part time after work as an adult
HUTH
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11:19am
11:19am, 25 Feb 2025
3,517 posts
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Hibeedeb
first coffee, doing a training shift at my out of retirement wee job today
I went to uni to do a zoology degree (same as my father, who was top student in the same dept), failed first year zoology so ended up doing a geography degree, having not done geography at school. I did mental health nursing after my degree
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11:22am
11:22am, 25 Feb 2025
13,010 posts
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Mazlin
We had a weird lesson at school taught by the headmistress which included ‘interesting facts about our school building’ like that the original owner had had a secret staircase built so no one could look up his daughter’s skirts from below as they went upstairs.
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11:27am
11:27am, 25 Feb 2025
62,938 posts
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EvilPixie
Much more fun Maz!
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11:35am
11:35am, 25 Feb 2025
62,939 posts
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EvilPixie
Diet coke
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11:40am
11:40am, 25 Feb 2025
27,004 posts
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geordiegirl
My dad was a miner my mam worked part time in various shops. My auntie was the clever one went to uni and worked as a civil servant. I wanted to be a vet but left school as the miners strike finished and no way my parents could have afforded me to go. As it happens I suffered a lot of health problems and I doubt I’d have made it through uni.
I always had an interest in law and finally did legal qualifications many years later.
110% I will and do help anyone that needs help - I helped her daughter so a CV for a Saturday job and she got the first one applied for so they think it’s easier for me to do it.
Also agree with not doing it for him. My issue here is my cousin & husband are professionals & both could sell ice to an Eskimo, which let’s face it a CV/personals statement is. Add in she’s off work this week but is going away to her caravan for a few days, son is staying at home with stepdad as he doesn’t want to go & she’s out today & sending him round this afternoon. It’s easier to give me the task than stay in/home and do it with him.
I’ve told him to come with all his notes I’ve told him what I need and I’ll help him write it. I’ve done what I think I can based on what I know but that won’t be the starting point.
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