Are you feeling inspired by Obama's victory to, in your own way, take on the world?

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I have always wanted to go into politics or to become a headteacher and then take a national role in improving our education system. However I have always felt that as a working class woman with a history of mental illness and a family bacground that makes shameless look like the archers there was no point.

But today I really think that anything is possible and am starting to make plans.

Well that's fab.
You go for it.
I love his refusal to be a whingeing victim.
Was listening to Yasmin Wotsit (Asian journo) on Radio 2 debating with a black prospective MP and she came across as a whinger while he was great.

You go girl!! - I might take on tidying up the house tomorrow

Wow - please do try. Your example will be inspiring to a whole generation. Look at Barack, absentee father, single mum, black...

yes that is what I am refusing to be, a whinging victim.

Yasmin sometimes comes across fantastically but other times does do whingy

lol I hardly think I could inspire a generation but it would be nice if my dd could have a mother to really look up to and I could look in the mirror and feel proud.

elastamum I am not enthusiastic enough to tidy the house

lol at tidying house
It did make me feel v bad about avoiding doing my fantastically tedious ethics proposal for MSc.

Tomorrow girls, I attack it with vigour!!

I'm really cheered by the fact that he is the son of a single mother!

I won't be getting up at five am to make my children do extra homework mind you!

But I just feel pleased that with all the statistics and gloomy prophecies that are presented as absolute fact about children from 'broken homes' that we have such proof that it doesn't HAVE to mean anything other than your parents don't live under the same roof.

I know I'm giving this my own twist!!
But it makes me feel good right now.

Liffey you are right although she was quite a remarkable woman.

pmsl @ tidying the house. I totally get you TSAP, aim for the stars you may get to the moon and all that. I too have harboured vaugue plans for a political career, and I think I would be fab, but I have no idea where to start, I hardly have a harvard education!

On a serious note I have an interview for a really big job next week which would be a real turning point for me since my H left us in the shit. If i get it it would allow us to be independant from him. I will do some homework on it - thanks TSAP

At least it gets me out of tidying up for another week

I have achieved a lot actually but want to build on that, I don't come from a family that encourged or even helped each other to get any qualifications.

I had to stay at home enduring awaful abuse so I could finish my a levels, I then had t pay board to my mum while at uni as well as al my own bills even though I was not living at home which required me to work nights and study all day. I built a good teaching career but then 7 years ago escaped an abusive marriage and was close to being sectioned. My dd and I were living on the steets and in and out of hostels. I gradually pulled myself back together and went back into teaching and managed to get promoted to a management position.

I need to remember that I have fight and strength, sometimes when life gets easy we get complacent and lazy, loosing that fight. I need to get my mojo back.

Sounds like you have an amazing experience to draw on. You obviously have a lot of drive. Go girl!

lol I have not been called girl for at least a decade and a half.

Never grown up me!!