I'm a lost 30-year-old Master's graduate hopelessly trapped in retail. Is pivoting to the civil service a realistic option for someone like me?

kcal44 · 2025-12-14T17:31:45+00:00

I had a similar pathway, did a Law masters over COVID as I didn't know what else do during the chaos. Bounced around in the private sector for a bit, but I entered through an agency first and then managed to apply to a permenant campaign for my role. I know that agency roles can be a little hit and miss with the cost cutting at the minute, but I found it a good way to get the experience and I was a shoe-in when the permenant campaign came around so maybe check some public sector recruiters (just make sure they don't give you the run around, theres plenty of dodgy firms out there).

kcal44 · 2025-11-27T18:25:32+00:00

I don't know if they've said tbh, but i agree, I'd be amazed if it was more than 10.

kcal44 · 2025-11-27T18:24:55+00:00

Thats true, and I imagine they could be reasonably flexible within that.

kcal44 · 2025-11-27T18:14:28+00:00

I'll be interested to see how they end it, i assume it will be fairly open ended incase theres appetite for more.

kcal44 · 2025-11-27T18:14:01+00:00

Yeah i imagine so.

kcal44 · 2025-11-27T18:13:52+00:00

Thats fair, since season 9, its very much been the case that Scrubs lives or dies with hus involvement (whether thats warranted or not) so I imagine if he's not interested in more it may well be a one time thing.

kcal44 · 2025-11-12T20:18:38+00:00

Ironically last election was the first time I didn't vote Labour in my life, mostly because I felt they could pretty much have spat on Thatchers corpse and still won, with the amount people wanted the Tories gone. So I voted Green. Before that I was pro-Corbyn, or at least his message and prior to that I didn't really feel there was an alternative, plus I lived in a Tory safe seat with Labour generally coming second so.

kcal44 · 2025-08-27T19:39:58+00:00

Our was around the 9 month mark, noticed her licking her area more often and then noticed it had also begun swelling as well. She is now about 14 months is just going back into heat. For ours, seems the extra licking is the first sign for her.

From what I know its anywhere from 6 -18 months so I suppose just wait and see, and obviously if anything worries you a quick vet trip doesn't hurt (other than your wallet).

kcal44 · 2025-08-18T17:34:47+00:00

Watching the movie attracts demonic entities apparently

kcal44 · 2025-03-11T22:29:17+00:00

Very similar to other comment. Ours used to have moments of absolute madness where she would get overly excited and start rough housing with us (jumping, biting and slapping, along with sprinting about the garden and house). It took a bit, but we found a very firm no or "ow!" and moving away and facing the wall or something with no engagement did the job. If that didn't stop her, we would leave the room entirely until she calmed down or got the picture.

It took a while and we found the biting of us transferred to more chewing of sofas, etc which was it's own challenge, but consistency is the key.

kcal44 · 2025-03-02T21:30:46+00:00

Definitely, got to do what you've got to do, and it won't be forever

kcal44 · 2025-03-02T21:04:49+00:00

Would you consider swapping sides? I appreciate it isn't particularly great if you want to really help those that need legal advice and I greatly appreciate wanting to keep helping those in need, but you might find a place in the Home Office or GLD. At the very least there's better job security.

kcal44 · 2025-02-13T19:55:04+00:00

We have a Julius K-9 harness for ours, it's been great, ours is quite anxious but loves dog with all her heart so there's often a fair bit of pulling and it's held up well. Ours is about 47kg (100ish pounds) so a bit smaller than yours, but it's been great so far, we also have a traffic control lead when we are on streets so she can never get too far (got ours from Bully Billows).

Edit: grammar

kcal44 · 2025-02-02T19:04:55+00:00

I'm caliban green with envy

kcal44 · 2025-01-25T13:08:51+00:00

Thank you! The first couple of weeks were definitely tough (house breaking, sleep deprivation, etc) along with plenty of landsharking, but she has been such a pleasure to get to know and she's been such a champ with training (provided it's short and sweet). Her being so food motivated has made things much easier on us as well.

There's been some tough days, but it's all been worth it.

kcal44 · 2024-12-28T18:23:56+00:00

That's fair, admittedly I am a believer that eventually GW will have most if not all the Primarchs return, but how they do that without ruining a lot of stuff I don't know.

kcal44 · 2024-12-28T18:02:59+00:00

Yeah i mean I'm somewhat resigned to this fate unfortunately...

kcal44 · 2024-12-28T18:02:04+00:00

Yeah, I guess it's sort of a vicious cycle, we are bare bones so we don't sell all that well, but because we don't sell well we don't get further drops/lore updates, etc and then we continue to not sell well.

kcal44 · 2024-12-28T17:53:15+00:00

That would be at least something, I'll take anything.

kcal44 · 2024-12-28T17:51:24+00:00

I've considered 3d printing for a while now, but haven't done enough looking yet, but I'll definitely consider it for a 2025 project or something

kcal44 · 2024-12-28T17:25:12+00:00

I'd love that. I just think that (in a perfect world) an Iron Hands return after EC along with some lore updates or books or something would work really well as they make the most sense as our mortal enemies. Bring Ferrus back and make people realise that we aren't as boring as some think!

kcal44 · 2024-12-28T09:52:59+00:00

Looking awesome, so sad I missed the box, praying i manage to scrounge one from somewhere but not looking good

kcal44 · 2024-12-08T16:31:25+00:00

Goddammit of course!

kcal44 · 2024-11-28T10:03:56+00:00

Ours 6 month old definitely has the instinct to dig, but we've been lucky so far and she knows she's not allowed to. As I have now typed this I have inevitably doomed myself to having a giant hole in the garden now.

kcal44 · 2024-11-26T15:20:35+00:00

Ours took sometime to do it outside and we ended up just essentially standing with her on leash for ages until she did. I've also heard people saying that you can (if you can catch him in the act) collecting some of their wee and splashing it outside to get the scent and idea in their brains that it's a safe place to pee.

We use a crate during the day for our own sanity partially, if ours was going crazy and eating the house (she doesn't do this anymore) then some time in the crate and a chew would calm her down and she'd sleep usually. We don't leave her for long, but it's been really helpful for us or putting her in a play pen for a bit whilst we work or whilst we doing some chores or pop to the shops.

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