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squeefulfish) wrote2007-05-05 03:14 pm
squeefulfish) wrote2007-05-05 03:14 pm
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Nearing the end of first year, exams are a paltry fortnight away which is why I'm here instead of reading about Freud or Anti-D or SIDS or Article 41 of Bunreacht na hÉireann.
Planning on working as health/maternity care assistant over the summer. The realisation that I'll be earning a mere 3 grand a year less in that role (pro rata, course) than I will as a qualified midwife is not a pleasant one. But still, it'll get me through the next 2 years til I get to paid placement. Pre-registration stoodents are currently the only midwives to have a 35 hour working week. Hurrah for that! Unpaid though, so an extra 10.6% there isn't going to be much good to me. Meh, I get paid in knowledge and experience and sometimes it's good to have that supernumerary status.
Confused the hell out of some canvasser for someone yesterday evening by mentioning how emigration was one of my issues. He thought I said "immigration." Er, nope. What is your guy going to do to keep me in the country when I graduate given that in Saudi or Oz I can get about twice what the HSE will pay me? "Uhh... We want to keep a hospital in Drogheda?" (I've no intention of leaving and if I do it's to do volunteer work, I just enjoy watching people get flustered.)
3 more days of placement left. Am firmly convinced I'll pass. Cos I'm super and brilliant and clever and wonderful. Modest, too.
Planning on working as health/maternity care assistant over the summer. The realisation that I'll be earning a mere 3 grand a year less in that role (pro rata, course) than I will as a qualified midwife is not a pleasant one. But still, it'll get me through the next 2 years til I get to paid placement. Pre-registration stoodents are currently the only midwives to have a 35 hour working week. Hurrah for that! Unpaid though, so an extra 10.6% there isn't going to be much good to me. Meh, I get paid in knowledge and experience and sometimes it's good to have that supernumerary status.
Confused the hell out of some canvasser for someone yesterday evening by mentioning how emigration was one of my issues. He thought I said "immigration." Er, nope. What is your guy going to do to keep me in the country when I graduate given that in Saudi or Oz I can get about twice what the HSE will pay me? "Uhh... We want to keep a hospital in Drogheda?" (I've no intention of leaving and if I do it's to do volunteer work, I just enjoy watching people get flustered.)
3 more days of placement left. Am firmly convinced I'll pass. Cos I'm super and brilliant and clever and wonderful. Modest, too.