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I love it when the Daily Mail do articles like this

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Voidka · 27/09/2011 14:20

here

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MIFLAW · 27/09/2011 15:46

Thought so!

DuelingFanjo · 27/09/2011 15:46

I knew before even opening this that you would be talking about these muppets Grin

TheHumanCatapult · 27/09/2011 15:48

glad just not me and thought erm if not worked for 4 years and your that short of money then any job will do

PeachyWhoCannotType · 27/09/2011 15:51

MIFLAW I agree: funnily enough my cousin drives a bus- with a first in chemistry adn an MA in a related subject. It was there so he did it, whilst keeping up applications for jobs he wants to do obviously.

I get the shame: DH was also made redundant and we felt that, or at least I did, in spades. The only reason I am not driving a bus is because I couldn't, I'd be deadly- I have post grad quals. It's a shame as the hours are flexible which is what I need above everything else (except not putting people's lives at risk anyway)

I feel sorry for them with teh redundancy- that is hard- but otherwise they ahve amde some very odd decisions. It felt like it was killing me when we cancelled a lot of the stuff the boys did and had been doing for years suuch as music but so be it. No other options.

CrosswordAddict · 27/09/2011 15:57

Her idea of poverty isn't mine. Why do they still have a cleaner.? Well, their GPs pay for tennis and riding lessons but are those really necessary?
She implies:Hubby has no interest in teaching, therefore he can't possibly become a teacher.Confused (Couldn't he find a little interest for his subject? He did a history degree, after all?)
I feel he could TRY to learn to be a bus driver. After all, there must be many graduate bus drivers.
It seems a bit insulting to bus drivers iyswim.
The whole article is a money-grubbing exercise I feel and rather distasteful somehow. Insulting to the thousands in the UK who are in real poverty/hardship. Hmm

VivaLeBeaver · 27/09/2011 15:58

Why doesn't he do the cleaning if he's home all day?

VivaLeBeaver · 27/09/2011 15:59

£120 a day sounds a good wage for bus driving. Its more than I earn in my graduate only profession.

DooinMeCleanin · 27/09/2011 16:01

I would think he's too over qualified to clean his own house Viva. Wouldn't want him to embarrass himself, would we? Poor wee man.

PeachyWhoCannotType · 27/09/2011 16:03

CA in fairness teaching is fairly much a high unemployment profession anyway, so of limited value unless you are a scientist / language teacher. Not racking up £££££££ debt to be able to do a job with no vacancies is a decision I have had to make and I actively wanted to teach, in a similar subject.

WidowWadman · 27/09/2011 16:04

"She implies:Hubby has no interest in teaching, therefore he can't possibly become a teacher.confused (Couldn't he find a little interest for his subject? He did a history degree, after all?)"

Would you want your children to be taught by someone who really doesn't want to teach?

CrosswordAddict · 27/09/2011 16:07

peachy
Yes, I take your point about expensive training and then not being able to get a job in teaching.
However, he could pick up a duster/mop/loo brush without expensive trainingGrin
Seriously, the whole attitude of the article stinks. It implies that people think there is something wrong with bus-driving. The whole point is it is an honest living and not to be looked down on.

Quenelle · 27/09/2011 16:09

Aah, poor people are so much luckier aren't they, because they don't have to use their savings or sell their house.

Pendeen · 27/09/2011 16:10

It's awful how some people seem to revel in other's misfortune.

CrosswordAddict · 27/09/2011 16:11

widowwadman Fair point I guess. No, I'd want my children taught by someone with a passion for his/her subject who has also a keen interest in education I reckon. A liking for children might help! Wink

DooinMeCleanin · 27/09/2011 16:14

In all fairness to us Pendeen, she did kinda set herself for it.

It is a shame he lost his job, but really, they're not helping themselves are they? Loads of people loose their jobs and have to downgrade. Dh did, only last year. Luckily he landed on his feet and is now at a higher level than he was to start with, but we didn't moan about it to The Daily Mail. We would have taken on any kind of paid work, including driving buses or scrubbing other people's shitty loos. It's called 'work ethic', something this family seem to be missing the point of just a touch.

scampadoodle · 27/09/2011 16:15

I think a lot of people think blithely, "Oh, I'll just become a teacher" but it's bloody hard. I know without even trying that I'd be completely crap at it. It's not only about having an interest in your subject, but being able to communicate it. To children. Usually teenagers. Who don't want to be there.

I loathe loathe loathe the DM but to be honest I don't think this article is that bad by their standards. Sure, these people are making choices you might not agree with, but they're not making them using state benefits, are they? And everything is relative. Even though some of you are struggling I bet there are others to whom you seem well off...

I do hate the Daily Mail though (just wanted to make that clear) Smile

Pendeen · 27/09/2011 16:17

CrosswordAddict

You are quite right of course but...

It's just that general air of glee about someone's problems that saddened me....

herbietea · 27/09/2011 16:18

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PeachyWhoCannotType · 27/09/2011 16:19

I think it's bloody ahrd for anyone to find work right now and I have sympathy for anyone as long as they are applying for pretty much everything within their capacity range.

Hard for them if the house has to be sold but been there, done that and survived. it's one of those things that hurts like hell at the time but fades over a few years. it's certainly not worth hanging on to a house for the exclusion of all happiness but equally they would be unlikely to get to the top of the LA list and they may well live somewhere that private rentals on a limited income are unlikely to come by.

MIFLAW · 27/09/2011 16:21

Pendeed

I don't think there is any glee at their hardship.

There is, instead, a broad disgust that they feel able to bleat about their hardship without taking really quite basic steps (lay off the cleaner, get a stop gap job) to remedy it.

wompoopigeon · 27/09/2011 16:35

I knew you lot would be talking about this article!
It's a parody, yes? A piss take? It's about a family with one main income (mother is a freelance writer, very busy apparently) and one sporadic income (contract work and consultancy), who does more childcare. If we changed the genders around then no-one would bat an eyelid.
I love love love the way that they will happy sell their children's photos and winsome quotes, but insisted on names being changed. Like that will save their kids from having the piss ripped out of them at school by anyone who has read this nauseating article.
Why do I pick up the Daily Fail in cafes? It only ever has these bizarre parallel universe articles! DH and I both work and no sign of a cleaner yet- where am j going wrong?!?!?

Ciske · 27/09/2011 16:42

But here's the strange thing about the article:

She's still in a job and making good money. This family has a regular income, albeit it lower than it used to be, their own home, savings and a supportive family. What's the issue, apart from the DM wanting to have a controversial article to generate a few hits? Confused

AlpinePony · 27/09/2011 16:43

The picture isn't them.

He doesn't seem to really be cut out for the high-octane world of strategic-force-entropy (that's driving a bus) given his propensity towards panic attacks. I can see him now, humping out of his cab and running down oxford st. Wailing 'but I went to Cambridge, mummy, mummy? I want my mummy'.

Riveninabingle · 27/09/2011 16:49

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ExitPursuedByaBear · 27/09/2011 16:51

£125 sounds like good money, if you haven't got any. It would be over £30,000 pa.