With module one of my degree studies almost behind me I have already module two ready to kick off in October. It has the makings of a really fascinating seven months studying the course of medical history and society from 1500-1930, something which has always interested me. It’s as close as I will ever get to medical school anyway…

I suggest to anyone out there looking for a challenge to sign up for a course of study in an area which has always interested you – do it now and you wont regret it. If you are like me and have always been interested in the medical side of things – but have better grades behind you but not good enough for doctor training – then how about medical assistant school…? this would be excellent for those of you who have wanted to break into the medical field but are not quite cut out for the long years of study required for becoming a fully-fledged doctor.

I urge you mums out there especially to have a good think about where you want your life to take you after the kids have left school – where will that leave you…? don’t be left behind – go back to school yourself – NOW!!!

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Since it’s inception a century ago ‘the dole’ has undergone many transformations and along with it so has ‘the dole office’…or ‘the brew’ as it is known around here. The first UK labour exchanges were opened in February 1910 and were in many ways much the same as they are today, the process is vastly different however the human involvement is unchanged. People still line up to ‘sign on’ just as they did in 1910, but how long will this continue now that almost everything is done online.

‘Online signing on’…will there be such a thing and why is it not already implemented? attitudes to social security benefits have always been mixed; from being a mark of shame to have to resort to claiming, to something like a social entitlement, state charity and to a bottomless pit of money for the lazy and workshy. I suspect people will still be required to ‘front up’ for some time to come even though former PM Gordon Brown had previously made claims to the effect that signing on online would be the way of the future – which could mean that you could go on holiday and sign on from your laptop at the beach internet cafe.

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I often wonder what career choices I would make if I could turn the clock back and be sixteen once again. That’s usually the age where you begin to consider what you would like to do with your life; the funny thing is at that age you rarely ‘see’ yourself beyond your twenties, even thirties. When you thought about the career path you wanted to take back then did you ever visualise yourself in that career until retirement age…? I’ll bet not. It’s incredible how shortsighted we are when young.

As I say, I was thinking about what choices I would have made with the power of hindsight – so I found a great site with a fun little quiz which matches your personality to a selection of careers; if you are just beginning to make those plans or are deciding which direction to take next, why not have a look and see what it can turn up for you?

Funnily enough, those career selections which came up after I concluded the quiz where actually in my field of interests. One thing that struck me was how we change as we progress though our twenties and thirties – ticking the answer boxes was confronting; twenty years ago I would have answered many of those questions quite differently. Maybe this is why the career we choose at the age of eighteen bores the hell out of us when we are thirty-five. Interesting…

Anyway, it’s just a bit of fun even if you aren’t after a career change.

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