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Having been self-employed, working from home for seven years, I am in need of a change. My working life has been admin/PA based and I am bored bored bored with looking at a pooter all day.

So a change is needed, yes?

To what?

At 51 and 9/12ths what can one change to?

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Suzie

how about an agricultural course then you can earn a living from what you really enjoy, now that thats what i really would like to do...........

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The love of gardening is a seed once sown never dies ...

Ohh yes, I'm with you Hansmum! If I could change I would want to go into growing in a more meaningful way.

What else do you enjoy Piskie? (Besides drinking and rugby which I'm guessing cost you money rather than make it for you?!).

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Life may not be the party we hoped for but since we're here we might as well dance

Now I can't get this song out of my head

YouTube - "Stand" - R.E.M.

Had a browse on Monster?

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - Updated 30th November

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Cheers Wayne, really enjoyed that.

Piskie, you seem to be good with people - have you thought of something in welfare. You could even do that for the Millitary and keep working in the same sort of job even when you have to move.

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A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown)

It's another one of them signs Suzie - restlessness!!

What do you think you would like to be doing?

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Imagination is everything, it is a preview of what is to become.

good question! *thinks

I thought it was only teenagers that had this feeling

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Suzie

Lol! 'fraid not!

Perhaps start with what you don't want to do....

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Manda.

"Wouldn't it be nice
For maybe an hour
To not have a care."

Good luck with it Piskie - trying to help Madmax make a similar decision at the moment!

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Happy Gardening,
Shirley

http://www.honeyjukes.co.uk

No unfortunately not.... I'm the same. I'm not convinced I'm in the right job either.... I swear I'll be like the Baz Lurhmann song and never really know what I want to do...

YouTube - Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

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Shortie

"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children; one of these is roots, the other wings" - Hodding Carter

Have you considered care work piskie I changed direction to this fifteen years ago and absolutley love it I get paid to go to the theatre,pub piccies etc oh and on holidays like every job it has its down side but it's what you make of it. with the right attitude it is really enjoyable and rewarding work oh and most places do pay you hehe

Can you afford to take a break? If you can, get a prospectus from your local college, or the O.U. if you don't want to be tied down to an area, and see what takes your fancy. If you see a course that you like the idea of then you might get an idea which direction you want to go in? Or if it's horticulture you'd like to do, there are loads of distance learning courses on th'internet

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Sarah

“Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

I can afford to take a couple years part-time break, sadly not full-time - thanks guys, all thoughts and ideas received with much appreication

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Suzie

O.U. Very expensive these days sarzwix. take the part time break piskie more time on the lottie lovelyyyyyyy

I'd get the prospectus anyway - good for ideas even if you don't do any of the courses. For instance - you might take a fancy to hotel management, then you could do a part-time course & work part time in a local hotel to get the experience & some cash in. Or be a plumbers apprentice () & do a day at college, or work part-time in the parks dept & do a City&Guilds or RHS horticulture course part time. The possibilities are endless !

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Sarah

“Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

So, Piskie spends an afternoon at Holly Cottage and now is dissatisfied with her life.....

Move to France, perhaps?

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Hazel
www.hazelandjanesallotment.blogspot.com
update Sun 30/11/2008......Indoor Allotmenteering too!.....

Thought about construction?

They're crying out for women to join the industry.

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - Updated 30th November

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*sees Piskie doing a builders bum - ewwwww

Some great ideas coming in guys, thanks. Nope Haze, deffo not France unless it's to visit Wellie, Trousers, TonyF et al.

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Suzie

I never did find what I wanted to do when I grew up! If you get a job away from your computer, we'll miss you!
I leapt at the chance of early retirement. I only get a small work pension - part timer, see - until I hit 60. Still won't be huge. But it keeps me in seeds and fabric. Not enough hours in the day.
However, now I'm doing what I want all day, not what someone is prepared to pay me for. Even if you work part time, (taking a course the rest of the time) make sure it's something you would do even if the DIDN'T pay you. Then if you get a job doing it - well, what a bonus that would be.

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Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

www.vegheaven.blogspot.com

Updated November 30th - Mr Stinky's Excellent Adventure (and a Christmas Cake)

Its hard not knowing what job you want to do/really want to do, I wanted to do fashion designs when I was at school but ended up been a nurse cos my mum‘s a nurse. Now would really love to work in something like a garden centre or something similar
Good Luck piskieinboots hope you get to do something you will really njoy

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Smile and the world smiles with you

I wanted to be an artist of some description when I left school, and went to college to pursue my "dream".

At the end of my course I started to show my work and was working with one of my tutors in a couple of local exhibitions. It was hard work, with very little, if any financial reward. I was working at the time in a bar and had discovered money and what it meant. I made a decision at that time that art was not for me, and I didn't want a life wondering when and if my next pay would arrive.

I'd love to do something truly creative again, but am confined by the need to earn. Money is often seen and quoted as providing opportunity, but equally it can be a burden.

I'm envious of those people that are able to set out early in life doing something they enjoy, and earning a decent wage at the same time. But I'm not sure I'll ever be "settled". You'll no doubt find the right thing for you piskie, good luck in your quest.

Now, I will resume my normal daftness.

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - Updated 30th November

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Steady lad!

Hey, do you think I am going through a second MLC

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Suzie