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What make is all the more poignant is the smirk Gordon Brown gives knowing full well the guy has hit the nail right on the head.

My husband has gotton a job - in Belgium!!!
So I'm taking a career break, he's heading over next week and I'll follow him in a few weeks.
We'll be based near Brussels.

Good luck with the move. How are the arrangements going?

An update on my situation, if anyone is interested:

As I said earlier in the thread, I got a job at an egg farm. I gave it a month. i can't remember the last time (if ever) that I have felt as miserable, bored, soul-destroyed and ill all at the same time - it was dreadful. How my brother has managed to do it for six and a half years is beyond me!
Anyway, in the meantime, I had started to some Saturday nights at the pub I used to work at, as the boss had managed to reopen.
I got a call from him last week to say that the owner had released the business and needed someone full-time. Negotiations are on-going, but it looks like I may get a full-time job back at my old work. Things should be clearer within the next couple of days, once I have sorted out hours, pay, etc.
I've been offered £7 an hour, which may seem like no big deal to some, but it is a fantastic wage in this area (the second lowest-paid area in the UK, where the average worker in the service industry gets about £6 if they are lucky.).
This, I believe, would also make me the highest-paid non-managerial barperson in town. I think, after 11 years, that it's about time my efforts were rewarded.
Fingers crossed.

No Muscle Mary wrote:My husband has gotton a job - in Belgium!!!
So I'm taking a career break, he's heading over next week and I'll follow him in a few weeks.
We'll be based near Brussels.

Fantastic news, Mary.
Good luck.

Fugitive1979 wrote:An update on my situation, if anyone is interested:

As I said earlier in the thread, I got a job at an egg farm. I gave it a month. i can't remember the last time (if ever) that I have felt as miserable, bored, soul-destroyed and ill all at the same time - it was dreadful. How my brother has managed to do it for six and a half years is beyond me!
Anyway, in the meantime, I had started to some Saturday nights at the pub I used to work at, as the boss had managed to reopen.
I got a call from him last week to say that the owner had released the business and needed someone full-time. Negotiations are on-going, but it looks like I may get a full-time job back at my old work. Things should be clearer within the next couple of days, once I have sorted out hours, pay, etc.
I've been offered £7 an hour, which may seem like no big deal to some, but it is a fantastic wage in this area (the second lowest-paid area in the UK, where the average worker in the service industry gets about £6 if they are lucky.).
This, I believe, would also make me the highest-paid non-managerial barperson in town. I think, after 11 years, that it's about time my efforts were rewarded.
Fingers crossed.

Everything crossed for you! Hope it works out!

That's great news, F79! I hope it all works out for you.

And congrats to Mary too- hope the move goes well.

I happy for you mary, and fugitive also, life is too short and work hours too long to work at a job you cant stand.

Fugitive, we are interested, and have our fingers crossed for you. Hope you get the gig.

You as well Mary- let us know how it goes, look at it as an adventure. Don't hesitate to turn on the Irish charm, it works well abroad.

Good to hear good news from you NMM and Fugitive!

Oh dear, my husband lasted less than a week. He had been misinformed about the cost of living in Belgium - rents in Brussels are astronomical. He had been hoping to keep our house in Ireland going as well as rent somewhere over there for all four of us. When he found out he wouldn't be able to afford that and myself and the kids would have to stay in Ireland, he came home.
So we both signed on the dole today!
On the plus side, I will be getting a generous pay-off from my job for taking the three-years leave, so we'll be grand for a while. And I'm sure something will turn up for the hubby.

Fugitive, I'm delighted for you. I could tell that you were miserable in that last job and nothing's worth that.


Glenn - I like the new photo!

Thanks for the updates. Good work Fugitive, and sorry to read of your situation Mary.

I, of course, am still off work, and the longer the hospital mess me around the longer it will be before I can return to work. Looking like August now, and that's a best case scenario.

They must be missing me though as the MD's partner wanted the details of my hospital so that she could write them a letter. I don't know what the letter will say exactly, but it will be along the lines of 'hurry up, we want our valued employee back'. That is a nice, re-assuring thing for me personally to reflect upon in these uncertain times.


StevePSB

Must be very frustrating, the boredom of being off work combined with the injured knee limiting what you can do to alleviate that boredom

Yes, it can get boring. There's only so much daytime TV you can put up with! That, watching old DVD's, internet and playing on my PS3 are about it for me really, and even that gets boring very quickly. I can still drive, but I have no money, so I can't go far or do much. Like many people at the moment (but for a for different reason), 2009 is going to be one of those years I look back on and think - 'that year was sh*t'.


StevePSB

It's been six months for me and I seem to be spending too much time on Facebook. I don't know how you're supposed to survive actually. I rent a room at home, so it's eating into my savings. No 'Yes' eleven pack vinyls for me.

Red Dwarf and Doctor Who cheered me up a little.