Ian
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http://www.rspca.org.uk/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RSPCA/Careers/CareersHomepage
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Colin
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http://www.rspca.org.uk/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=RSPCA/Careers/CurrentVacancies&articleid=1196946595006
As a guide. Looks like their more interested in formal qulifications....which you can still sit by the way!! A good all round educations probably more desirable for something like that than a short course.
You can also become a volunteer with RSPCA, unpaid but that would look good on a CV if its what you want to do!
http://www.rspca.org.uk/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RSPCA/RSPCARedirect&pg=volunteer
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chloe16v
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian
http://www.rspca.org.uk/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RSPCA/Careers/CareersHomepage
been on there afew times to have a look
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Ian
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Print that Hospital assistant page and tell them that is what you want when you go to college. They're only asking GCSE grade C in English, Maths and Science, depending your position this would normally take two years to achieve but you can sometimes shortcut the process, particularly if you studied for GCSE but did not sit the exams.
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chloe16v
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian
Print that Hospital assistant page and tell them that is what you want when you go to college. They're only asking GCSE grade C in English, Maths and Science, depending your position this would normally take two years to achieve but you can sometimes shortcut the process, particularly if you studied for GCSE but did not sit the exams.
no ian i didnt do any time at secondry school, so i dont know fook all 
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Colin
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Nows the time to start then, plenty hard work & you'll achieve what you want to do.
Go round/write to local vet practices asking if theirs any positions as an assistant, even just a couple hours a week to get some experience.
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chloe16v
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quote:
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Nows the time to start then, plenty hard work & you'll achieve what you want to do.
Go round/write to local vet practices asking if theirs any positions as an assistant, even just a couple hours a week to get some experience.
i dont really want to do it till sept tho
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Ian
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Now would be the time to start the assistant/voluntary positions until you have the GCSE grades and informal experience to apply for that one we're talking about.
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chloe16v
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian
Now would be the time to start the assistant/voluntary positions until you have the GCSE grades and informal experience to apply for that one we're talking about.
yes but my son doesnt start full time school til sept, he's in half day atm, then ive got to find child care for my daughter
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Colin
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Yep start doing an afternoon or 2 a week unpaid just to show your keen then start the accademic stuff in september. Make up a CV of what your achieving & you never know in a year or 2 you might be doing that job you dream of.
Things like this take time, Im looking at 5 years in total to retrain in my new job, thats from leaving work, starting college then being taken on as a trainee/apprentice. It wont happen over night, you need to be committed! In the course I started last year 32 people started on the course & only 5 of us saw it through to the end & passed!
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Paul_J
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Wow, I can't believe you never went to secondary school? what did you think was gonna happen in the future?
Hats off to you though for wanting to bite the bullet and go back and get some education. To be honest, a lot of what has been said is good advice, I'd try to get the basics (Maths / English etc) as nearly all jobs will ask for this, just to make sure you can do simple sums and can document things or reads things 100% correctly.
At the end of the day, lets face it, you're only 21 - that is still young. But yes you have kids to support which makes it harder.
The only problem is, if you don't nail down the basics first, it can cause problems later on and make you feel frustrated that you don't understand something when everyone else is breezing it, making you more likely to want to drop out.
I semi know the feeling, as I stopped going to my lessons in 6th form and fucked up good and proper, when I did go back to the lessons I was struggling as I didn't know the ground work for what we were now learning. As such, and the lack of attendance I cocked it up as I sat exams I had barely learnt anything for.
Lesson learnt, dropped out of school with As Level's A, B, C and *cough* some other grade  *cough*  Ok those grades may be fine for some people but I needed like 320-340 ucas points to get on my uni course that i wanted and that's like 2 A's and a B and general studies (the B I got) doesn't count.
However, I learnt my lesson and went to college for 2 more years, to get me what I needed to be able to go to uni and do the course I want. (I actually left college with equiv of 3 A's at A-Level, so plus my As Levels I was now up to my eye balls in ucas points )
I wasn't thick, it was just because I never sat in certain lessons - i just didn't know it. If I had been in the lesson I'd of known it no sweat and breezed it - but it just showed me how hard it can be if you miss the basics, before the next things and how frustrating it feels and how much it makes you just want to drop out and stop going to the lessons in general.
[Edited on 07-04-2008 by Paul_J]
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chloe16v
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i didnt really think about the future, at the time i was working with my mum in her pub, pulling pints from the age of 12, working in the kitchens ect, but i dont wanna do that again
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Colin
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tbh mum should never have encouraged you pulling pints in a pub aged 12....what was she thinking!! I hope you realise a good education is vital & you'll see your kids through their schooling.
Its never too late to learn, you've still got a lifetime ahead to secure the job you want! Start now though....worst thing you could do is put it off any longer!
Get enrolled in college to do some proper recognised qualifications & a little bit of practical experience, couple hours a week along side would be a good start!
[Edited on 07-04-2008 by Colin]
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chloe16v
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my mum didnt have much choice tbh, i wouldnt go to school and it was the only way to keep me off the streets and stop me gettin into shit
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Colin
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Its a parents responsibility to see you attend school until your 16, anyway thats neither here nor there.
Do as said above & get some decent qualifications, those short course things are pretty much micky mouse qualifications!
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chloe16v
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ok thanx everyone for the advice you have been very helpful 
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Paul_J
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Thats the thing also, when you're young, living at home with parents, working say behind a bar feels like you've got loads of money, as you're mates will be at school - max getting paper round sorta wages.
with no real out goings the money you do make will allow you to feel rich... and thus believe school isn't important. but then later on in life you realise how pointless working at the pub was relatively.
I'm not saying this is necisarily true to you, but my mate dropped out of school - worked in a pub, then moved into the pub... working their full time. He thought he was the coolest at the time, had more money than anyone else, had his own place (athough it was just a room in the pub) and had a job in a pub (alcohol is seriously cool as a kid) when we weren't old enough to drink.
However, he soon realised he had made a mistake - fortunately for him (unfortunately for me as I wanted him to learn his lesson ) he went to college and walked straight into some london job somehow (I think his dad got it for him really)... anyway, he's now living in london, working in london and earning an alright wage.
and I'm still poor
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chloe16v
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just been looking at this
http://www.thomroth.ac.uk/NewTRC/community/area.asp?type=5
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Jamie
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Majority of my class are 25-40 (ish)
It is an evening class in Mechanical Engineering.
Best bet is to find out who the course leader is and give them a phone to see what is required.
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