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Does it matter which job you take or is there some sort of code where...

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mamadiva · 19/01/2009 08:05

you have to leap into a 40 hour week as a bloody 'professional' to be classed as a successful working mum?

As you can tell having abit of a rant and debate with a bloody stuck up (well apparently) friend of DP's ARGH!

Basically friend phoned the other day asked if I was working yet, said no but I was looking at a few cleaning jobsand shop assistant jobs, I went to college when I was 16 so I am a qualified playleader but work is hard to fiund at the moment.

Anyway DS is 2 and a half we are skint so I'm looking for something to tide me over until DS starts school, I know it'll be awhile, then I plan to go to college to do something else, not sure what yet LOL, I'm 22 and we are trying to avoid childcare costs.

So anyway when I said about cleaning jobs and shop work they pissed theirselves alughing and said 'Oh I thought you meant a real job hardly qualifies does it?' ARGH this coming from the dental nurse only because her dad is a dentist and her DP who has never had a job because 'he just can't be arsed with te hassle'!!!

So when you went back to work did you go for whatever suited or something that morons like them would find 'respectable' I don't know ahsd actually made me worry how many people will look down their noses at me for cleanng or something as 'pointless' as that!

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SheSellsSeashellsByTheSeashore · 19/01/2009 08:10

I work in a fastfood place and I am very happy with my job. I am providing for my children with my own wages and paying my own rent and will shortly be paying for my own evening classes. Woe betide anyone who trys to tell me I am not a sucessfull mother.

Shop jobs can start off as just jobs but if you stick at it and work hard you could move into management or higher, without the student loans/debt hanging over you.

MrsMattie · 19/01/2009 08:10

What a nasty person! Ignore them.

Sounds like you have a plan worked out - to fit a job around your child and then to retrain when he goes to school. That's a great plan (and you are young enough to really make a go of any new career path you choose in the future).

Don't listen to the snob!

mamadiva · 19/01/2009 08:44

Glad I'm not off my head then LOL.

Might do an online computing course now and then thinking of childminding when DS is at school.

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