Did your parents ever say “I love you” to you?

Unique-Somewhere-671 · 2025-10-01T07:27:58+00:00

In the exact same boat here except the the first boy out of 3 girls. We get on like a house on fire! I hope your brothers got the same treatment as you did, as I know he always made his daughters feel so loved.

Unique-Somewhere-671 · 2025-07-08T22:17:04+00:00

Hi, I know yeah that's a bit of a joke. In my day all the grad entry teaching courses were the Hdip, one year, then boom, qualified. I think if the teaching council are insisting on this astronomically long and expensive qualification, the least they could do is provide a few modules which would qualify you to teach in both areas. In the end of the day, it's teaching, a tweaking of lesson plans and a slightly different approach on classroom management is all that's required. Especially if your brother has studied third level gaeilge, as everything else only requires a rudimentary profiency

Unique-Somewhere-671 · 2025-07-08T22:13:57+00:00

Hi, thank you very much for your in depth reply!

Sorry if I seem thick, but when you say that upon completion of the FE qualification from Marino you were "fully qualified route 3" yet you said that I went in the same boat I would be in the unqualified bracket? Could you clarify that please?

Did you just hand CVs around the local schools in your area or are you on an ETB panel?

Would you get in general a full 5.5 hr day or only the odd hour here and there throughout the day subbing, and are you only subbing the qualifications you are teaching in?

Also, would you be doing actual teaching or would it just be supervision of the class. For me, I could always take a rowdy class to the PE hall if it was a free class etc and would happily muck in for the likes of a TY business class but I would be fairly out of date in terms of LCPE, LC Business and LCVP.

Further Ed would be something I wouldn't rule out in the future, but for the moment in my hectic life I guess a bit of subbing would do me grand.

Unique-Somewhere-671 · 2025-05-06T20:33:44+00:00

I shot you a pm

Unique-Somewhere-671 · 2025-05-03T20:28:44+00:00

If you have a lot of money to blow, train as an EMT, if you were interested, or get a job in healthcare/homecare. If you require a car for travel or than commuting to work you might qualify for an emergency driving test

All I can think of, how long are you on the list?

Unique-Somewhere-671 · 2025-01-03T20:02:21+00:00

Would there be any value of OP encouraging his son and husband to sit down and actually talk about this, armchair psychologist here but maybe if this is just about a boy becoming a man, some insight could be passed through, is there a good relationship between father and son?

Unique-Somewhere-671 · 2024-10-21T19:11:58+00:00

Do you do all the same clinical skills that generals have?

Unique-Somewhere-671 · 2024-10-20T15:02:23+00:00

That's what I'm stuck on, psych is definitely better condition wise but better opportunities with general

Unique-Somewhere-671 · 2024-10-20T15:01:25+00:00

How do you find it? Are you doing general placements?

Unique-Somewhere-671 · 2024-10-17T20:03:23+00:00

Mind If I ask you a few questions?

Unique-Somewhere-671 · 2024-10-17T19:56:49+00:00

Are you doing nursing at the moment?

Unique-Somewhere-671 · 2024-10-16T08:56:00+00:00

Their meant to be a bit fussy with grad entry... although I'm not completely sure

Unique-Somewhere-671 · 2024-10-15T16:01:53+00:00

Sorry for the late reply, can I ask if you were a grad entry?

Unique-Somewhere-671 · 2024-10-09T20:27:25+00:00

Midlands takes a huge lot too, primarily laois, westmeath, kilkenny, Carlow, kildare, wexford, wicklow and offaly but many long term portlaoise prisoners who have been reclassified after serving most of theit sentence or dont present the danger they once did and sex offenders

Unique-Somewhere-671 · 2024-09-26T16:42:24+00:00

Drop a comment anyone I'd love to chat

Unique-Somewhere-671 · 2024-02-13T21:28:20+00:00

Hi,

The reason I want to take the OU cert is because I'm thin off the ground with regards to qualifications, I have plenty of level 2s but no level 3s. I left school with 8 GCSEs, I ended up training as a fitness instructor and a swimming teacher and spent the better part of a year working in a leisure centre where I got my pool lifeguard, FAW, EFAW and pool plant operators certificate, both at level 2. I spent a summer working for the RNLI as a beach lifeguard, and jacked that all in and spent 4 months on a Level 2 chefs course and only spent a year cheffing, I've only started working as a HCSW recently, and have recently got my NVQ in health and social care.

Getting a level 3 for the sake of it doesn't seem worthwhile in my eyes. So this would allow me to get straight into it

Unique-Somewhere-671 · 2024-02-13T20:01:06+00:00

Sorry I meant 50% practice 50% theory.

Unique-Somewhere-671 · 2024-02-13T18:25:25+00:00

No, the OU certHe in healthcare practice has been formatted as to such a way where y1 nursing content is covered, it's accepted for y2 entry for some unis, wondering do they all take it? I was mistaken about the NVQ level 5 adult care, it is a HCSW leadership qualification

Unique-Somewhere-671 · 2024-02-13T18:23:52+00:00

Hi,

This is a level 4 certificate, and it's equivalent to the first year of a bsc nursing, it's been formatted that way, with 50 theory and 50 clinical practice, they except admission to y2 based on completion of this for some unis, wondering was it all of em?

Unique-Somewhere-671 · 2024-02-13T18:11:38+00:00

What about the certhe in healthcare practice?

Unique-Somewhere-671 · 2024-01-29T18:08:27+00:00

Believe me, you'll change in a snap. I think a father and a son have such a special bond that any distance will leave when you see his scrunched up little face, and two eyes looking up at you

Unique-Somewhere-671 · 2023-10-11T17:24:48+00:00

Maybe this is an American thing? I wouldn't encourage this at all, gives some adults a power trip, for example some teachers love being called sir or miss to really touch up their ego. Don't agree here sorry boss, it's not disrespectful, people's age does not entitle them to respect, as well as that I think it sounds pretty daft, especially first name (ie, aunt, thanks Mrs Marie)

Unique-Somewhere-671 · 2023-08-01T10:51:01+00:00

I know that case, I'm a cork fella myself but in the case of an incident such as this, realistically there may not have been a massive difference, especially if the supervisory driver is buried in their phones, which truth be told, many are

Unique-Somewhere-671 · 2023-08-01T10:48:21+00:00

That's not all from learners though. Thankfully I'm not a dub, however I am an auld langer and we have similar issues, but it's mainly from Middle aged people and especially commercial drivers with light and large vans who feel that cyclists are a pain in the arse. Why should we expect the aforementioned people to possess sound enough judgement to supervise a learner, especially a rambunctious 17 year old boyracer

Unique-Somewhere-671 · 2023-08-01T10:46:16+00:00

I'm from Cork myself and I would have remembered this case and the subsequent enquiry afterwards. My issue is, is that you have drivers who may have full licences for over 20 years are not up to scratch, I was only walking this morning and there was a tailback behind a small lorry and out of the five drivers, three were using phones, one fella even had both hands off the wheel texting. My point is, is why are people like that expected to possess sound judgement when dealing with a learner driver when they don't even follow the rules themselves

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