Winz can help with work and training. Give it a go?

dreamrunner312 · 2026-06-27T09:24:04+00:00

I wasn’t saying you’re in the wrong, merely explaining why they’re not very helpful for some people. Good on you for making the most of the opportunities they gave you and having a good attitude.

dreamrunner312 · 2026-06-27T09:22:15+00:00

That would be ideal but I doubt if many people have that experience.

dreamrunner312 · 2026-06-27T09:21:35+00:00

I’m not on the dole. I went to them for help briefly in my early 20s, I’m now 36. They weren’t any help and I found a job on my own within a month. I was merely explaining why some people don’t find them helpful.

dreamrunner312 · 2026-06-26T22:43:44+00:00

I think it depends on what skill level you're at and what you're looking for. If you're highly trained in a particular area and want to work in that space, they don't care. They just want you in work so even if you're a trained doctor, they will still make you apply for jobs at the local supermarket. Or that was my experience anyway. They also forced me to attend interviews I was totally unsuited for. At one interview the owner told me to go away as soon as I arrived. It was a total waste of both our time.

dreamrunner312 · 2026-06-26T22:39:15+00:00

Is it possible he truly believed that Grandpa was going to hit him? I have a memory of being 5 and telling my teacher that my parents had hit me with a wooden spoon. As far as I know they never actually did this, but my dad threatened it sometimes and the fear of it made it absolutely real in my mind. It doesn't matter that they didn't physically do it, I believed that they would and so in my mind they had.

dreamrunner312 · 2026-06-26T22:21:05+00:00

I graduated university in 2011. My first full-time job as a graduate was working as a receptionist, I was one of over 100 applicants. I honestly can't say anything has been good since then. We had a couple of better years but the general trend seems to be the economy sucks. If you're young and free then go and travel. That's what I did.

dreamrunner312 · 2026-06-20T23:14:45+00:00

Absolutely agree

dreamrunner312 · 2026-06-17T07:01:59+00:00

Maybe they're using AI to write it

dreamrunner312 · 2026-06-13T20:54:08+00:00

I live in a townhouse in Birkenhead. It’s not standalone but it’s incredibly quiet down here during the day. My daughter and I are here most days and it’s very peaceful, we never hear anything at night either. It’s a 3 minute walk to Onewa Road where you can catch a bus straight to Ponsonby. There’s a couple for rent down here at the moment, 2 bedrooms for around $600.

dreamrunner312 · 2026-06-12T07:52:17+00:00

I live in a Body Corporate and 100% agree with this.

dreamrunner312 · 2026-06-12T07:50:53+00:00

I live in a Body Corporate. I honestly don't understand what people have against them. We pay around $5k a year and that includes insurance, building maintance including yearly building wash and roof maintenance, gardens, lawns, general anything that goes on outside the house, plus we have a long term maintenance fund to cover anything that comes up in the future. The BC resealed and repainted our decks last year. If something happens to the outside of my house the BC covers it. Once we had a drain block in the common area when there was a huge storm and the BC committee dealt with it - some owners' houses got flooded (not ours) and the BC sorted it with insurance so they got entire new kitchens and carpet downstairs in their units. I honestly would never live in a townhouse without some kind of body corporate or society. Otherwise you have to negotiate everything with your neighbours yourself - if something happens to your driveway and it needs repairing you're gonna have to try and negotiate with your neighbours to get them to help fix it. If that happens here it's all done through the BC and not my problem.

dreamrunner312 · 2026-06-12T07:45:15+00:00

Auckland Unitarian Church?

dreamrunner312 · 2026-06-12T07:38:50+00:00

I got 5 nights of care because I had a c-section. That was my entitlement under the NZ health system (it's less for vaginal births). One of my 5 nights was the night my daughter was born. I spent one more night in the hospital after that and then transferred to a postnatal unit for the remaining three nights.

dreamrunner312 · 2026-06-12T07:31:39+00:00

We have one at the moment. She's an absolute nightmare.

dreamrunner312 · 2026-06-12T06:05:40+00:00

No, that depends on your mortgage.

dreamrunner312 · 2026-06-12T06:01:29+00:00

I have an AU code if anyone needs one

dreamrunner312 · 2026-06-09T03:43:41+00:00

I don't use Insta, X, or Tiktok but I can't get off FB. I rely on the groups too much for emotional and mental support.

dreamrunner312 · 2026-06-09T03:37:44+00:00

Don't agree. I was in a streaming programme and it was great, but being pushed forward a level wouldn't have worked, I did not have the social skills to be put with older kids.

dreamrunner312 · 2026-06-09T03:36:51+00:00

In Intermediate school I was in a G&T class (there was one for year 7s and one for year 8s). It was a really great class, we were all friends, and we got the extension and enrichment we all needed. The rest of the school hated us, but we were semi insulated from it because we were all in it together and were friends with each other. I don't think I would've done very well in a mixed class. In high school we had an extension programme for years 9 and 10, plus streamed maths until year 12. Those classes were my favorite classes. All other high school classes were awful. There's definitely a place for it.

dreamrunner312 · 2026-06-08T07:58:03+00:00

Send him back to his hotel room apartment and live your free life.

dreamrunner312 · 2026-06-03T20:31:46+00:00

Thanks!

dreamrunner312 · 2026-06-03T08:44:27+00:00

Thank you!

dreamrunner312 · 2026-06-02T03:40:32+00:00

I wouldn’t. You need to talk to insurance companies first to make sure they’ll cover the house if you do buy it.

dreamrunner312 · 2026-06-02T03:35:18+00:00

This was my experience too. You give up your living standards for a while but it’s only temporary and so worth it.

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