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Forum: The Barbie

Mar 27th 2011, 5:52 am

Replies: 38

Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

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Posted By cheshiremark

Re: Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Thanks for your replies Lancastrain48 and Jon77.

My son still hasn't had any luck in finding a job and is still looking. One place he's tried for has asked him to get a police check and then they...

Forum: The Barbie

Mar 9th 2011, 10:27 am

Replies: 38

Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Views: 3,291

Posted By cheshiremark

Re: Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Thanks Gems,
I talked to him about doing a distant learning course and he's not so keen because he won't be in a classroom situation therefore he wont be socializing with fellow students which is...

Forum: The Barbie

Mar 9th 2011, 10:23 am

Replies: 38

Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Views: 3,291

Posted By cheshiremark

Re: Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Thanks Pollyana
He's gone out for a walk at the moment so I'll ask him when he gets back.

Forum: The Barbie

Mar 9th 2011, 10:21 am

Replies: 38

Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Views: 3,291

Posted By cheshiremark

Re: Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Thanks again Helen for all the links you've posted.

Forum: The Barbie

Mar 9th 2011, 10:18 am

Replies: 38

Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Views: 3,291

Posted By cheshiremark

Re: Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Hi Jad n Rich,
Well he's definitely not sporty. I know he spends a lot of time on the net searching for things he can do so I'll ask him if he's looked at the jobseekers site.

Forum: The Barbie

Mar 9th 2011, 10:03 am

Replies: 38

Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Views: 3,291

Posted By cheshiremark

Re: Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Hi Pollyana,
He emailed SES but hasn't heard anything back yet - it's probably like you said they've got more than enough volunteers at the moment.

Forum: The Barbie

Mar 2nd 2011, 4:27 am

Replies: 38

Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Views: 3,291

Posted By cheshiremark

Re: Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Thanks Sally Simpson, Bernie Barfly and Paulry for your kind words of support I’ll show him your posts later.

Mark

Forum: The Barbie

Mar 2nd 2011, 4:22 am

Replies: 38

Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Views: 3,291

Posted By cheshiremark

Re: Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Thanks Helen for the advise and website links. He's emailed SES to ask about volunteering but hasn't had a reply back yet.

Mark

Forum: The Barbie

Mar 2nd 2011, 4:18 am

Replies: 38

Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Views: 3,291

Posted By cheshiremark

Re: Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Thank for your reply HUP. He has the RSA certificate and I asked him about the other two but he says the gaming one is very hard and the food one is expensive. I think at the moment he wants to try...

Forum: The Barbie

Mar 2nd 2011, 4:07 am

Replies: 38

Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Views: 3,291

Posted By cheshiremark

Re: Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Thanks Ivan,
He's enquired about training as an electrician but apparently he needs year 12. He wants to do a year 12 equivalent at TAFE but the next intake is July and they have already turned him...

Forum: The Barbie

Feb 28th 2011, 9:48 pm

Replies: 38

Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Views: 3,291

Posted By cheshiremark

Re: Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Thanks Irishbloo and weebie for your replies,
Following the financial crisis, strong Aussie dollar, the floods and that big cyclone they had up north I believe Queensland's hospitality sector is...

Forum: The Barbie

Feb 27th 2011, 5:09 am

Replies: 38

Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Views: 3,291

Posted By cheshiremark

Re: Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Hi,
He would love to see his friends back in the UK but the stories we're getting back from friends and family back there make us feel like despite his job situation he is a lot better off here....

Forum: The Barbie

Feb 27th 2011, 5:03 am

Replies: 38

Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Views: 3,291

Posted By cheshiremark

Re: Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Yeah, I've heard rumours about the possibility of Ikea coming to North Lakes. I think he's looked in to this but since they haven't even layed the foundations for any such store yet I think it will...

Forum: The Barbie

Feb 27th 2011, 4:58 am

Replies: 38

Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Views: 3,291

Posted By cheshiremark

Re: Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Thanks for suggesting this. I've told him about it and he's given them his details.

Forum: The Barbie

Feb 25th 2011, 3:00 am

Replies: 38

Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Views: 3,291

Posted By cheshiremark

Re: Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Thanks for your reply,
We have asked his best mate back in the UK to visit but up to now hasn't taken us up on the offer.

We have suggested that he volunteers for the SES that way he may make...

Forum: The Barbie

Feb 24th 2011, 5:08 am

Replies: 38

Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Views: 3,291

Posted By cheshiremark

Bullied out of school and now needs a job and good friends

Hi,
I wouldn't normally write anything like this on here but day after day I look at my eldest son, 19 years old, sad face and feel I have to at least try to help him. He has been trying really hard...

Forum: Nurses, Doctors, and other Medical/Healthcare occupations

Mar 6th 2009, 4:14 am

Replies: 59

Mater hospital brisbane

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Posted By cheshiremark

Re: Mater hospital brisbane

HI Claire,
Yeah, work at the Mater Brisbane and love it :)

Mark

Forum: Nurses, Doctors, and other Medical/Healthcare occupations

Mar 5th 2009, 3:28 am

Replies: 18

Relocation packages

Views: 7,357

Posted By cheshiremark

Re: Relocation packages

Hi,
As I said in my previous post, Queensland Health told me I'll get $3000 but when I talked to one of their hospitals about a job they said, they don't give anything at all for relocation.

Mark

Forum: Australia

Feb 21st 2009, 10:06 pm

Replies: 9

Austrailian dirty windows.

Views: 1,019

Posted By cheshiremark

Re: Austrailian dirty windows.

Hi,
At one point I did look at whether or not I could do what you suggested but as well as being fly-screens they are actually security screens so they're not made that easy to come off.

Mark :)

Forum: Australia

Feb 21st 2009, 10:01 pm

Replies: 9

Austrailian dirty windows.

Views: 1,019

Posted By cheshiremark

Re: Austrailian dirty windows.

Hi,
Thanks for your advise. Just after I made my last post I had a look again at it and found that it worked exactly as you said so I have nice clean windows now :thumbsup:

Mark

Forum: Australia

Feb 21st 2009, 12:04 am

Replies: 9

Austrailian dirty windows.

Views: 1,019

Posted By cheshiremark

Re: Austrailian dirty windows.

Thank you everyone for taking the time to reply :)

I've looked at the windows and can't see how they can be removed but I'll try to figure it out.

Mark :)

Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)

Feb 20th 2009, 11:55 pm

Replies: 1,684

December 2007 Applicants

Views: 101,257

Posted By cheshiremark

Re: December 2007 Applicants

Good luck with it all Lou. I really hope it all works out for you all.

Mark :)

Forum: Australia

Feb 20th 2009, 7:09 am

Replies: 9

Austrailian dirty windows.

Views: 1,019

Posted By cheshiremark

Austrailian dirty windows.

Hi Everyone,
A bit of a silly question here but we've just moved into a new house yesterday. The house originally had net curtains up and when we took them down this morning we noticed that the...

Forum: Australia

Feb 11th 2009, 9:39 pm

Replies: 20

Queensland House Stamp / Transfer Duty

Views: 3,203

Posted By cheshiremark

Re: Queensland House Stamp / Transfer Duty

Hi,
Thank you all for your replies :)
I've just phoned the Queensland Treasury. The guy I talked to repeated what I got told before, i.e. that the word 'Elsewhere' means anywhere in the world as...

Forum: Australia

Feb 11th 2009, 5:33 am

Replies: 20

Queensland House Stamp / Transfer Duty

Views: 3,203

Posted By cheshiremark

Re: Queensland House Stamp / Transfer Duty

Hi,
Somebody I know used a finacial advisor and the advisor helped him with the form for the stamp duty concession - this just makes me even more confused as to whether we have to pay or not.
...

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