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Glad it all worked out for you! :thumbup:

Hope you are happy in your new barn! How lovely! :)

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The recession as it pertains to jobs in the UK is a situation that exists for the majority, not everybody!:thumbsup:

When I was in the UK all I ever read on the teaching forums was how terrible the situation was with Supply teaching and how there was no work, how schools had no money to pay Supply and other teachers said I was MAD:blink: to give up my Permanent post at that time.

In the three years since on Supply I had almost no time without work, I got offered three fixed term contracts through working on Supply (no need to apply/be interviewed) and at least two of the schools wanted to keep me permanently (but I said no).

So, what recession indeed.

If you're hot, then you're hot and it seems you are SMOKIN":wink_smile:!!!

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Brilliant, then no regrets ;)

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good job!

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RRhodes, I have read all of the posts and responses - I am trying my utmost to make this a happy and successful transition for all the family. Could I just ask? Do you think that there may have been a sense of anti-climax that may have added to your unhappiness? It takes a long time to sort out the move, and one has so many hopes riding on this enormous change, all emotions are leading toward the move, and perhaps not so many to the unknown vacuum after it?

Sometimes you do need a big shake up to make you know what makes you happy. I have done a lot of soul searching about this move, not before time - state of my marriage, state of me! This has been one of the most illuminating and difficult years for a long while.

I am so very pleased that your return to the UK has panned out so well and so positively. Very best wishes, and hopes that all continues in this upbeat fashion.

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Nothing irritates me more than reading those two words, what recession.

grrrr

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yes Millef it was the shake up we needed to think all we want is to be happy and reassessing that we are very happy back in the uk. If you wrote my situation on paper i was mad to leave the uk as i really do have everything here. I feel really at home here and am really excited about my future. No comments could have made up my mind but i have no regrets about what happened. I am very much enjoying things here and have no stresses at all.

We do think if it hadnt taken 4 years then a year to sell our house and then a further year we would have thought differently.Whats your situation?

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Oh, your post sounds so happy RRhodes! I NEVER wanted to go to Canada, but I have lived with a Canadian for the last 18 years, in the Middle East and for the last ten years in France - he too NEVER wanted to go back to Canada - but.... ten years ago we found out I was pregnant (a shock) and moved to France (I'd had a house here for ever) and married, and then he carried on being an airline pilot in, by then, North Africa, and I became a not so yummy, often bored, non-working mummy. Two years ago he was stabbed - the week before Christmas, in Charles de Gaulle airport, returning to us for the first Christmas in five years! He was badly injured, but is fine thank heavens. That's when we both looked at life and wondered - what if? You wonder who you are, what you value, and what you want for the future. I now realise that I have been quietly unhappy for some years. Now, we have changed. We are ready for Canada. We have something to give, we want to be there, and we feel it will work. I watched my son being confident and blossom in NB and he's always at the back of the queue here in France. I feel alive, I have lost 10 kgs, and feel like I've had a face lift, I haven't felt so positive about life for years as I'm smiling daily. I will, however, do my best to make sure that it continues in a positive fashion if I can. Sometimes though it's just so damned tiring keeping it all on an upbeat note. I have finally realised that I was unhappy where I was, and you have realised that you were happy where you originally were! Sometimes it's just a bit hard to see the woods for the trees! Very best of luck!

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What recession? I can honestly say i've not been affected. Yaaaay me!!! :thumbup:

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it is for times like that there should be a smug smilie
;)

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This one's close.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kJdTIlO-GN...mileySmirk.gif

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ooh yes, will have to remember that:)

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+1

The media jumping on the word winds me up to no end. :frown:

I'm sure the media plays a good part in any modern recession. People about to go out and spend their money and thereby keep the economy going. The media then spouts the 'R' word like it's going out of fashion, so those people who were about to spend their money decide to keep hold of it, shops don't shift any goods, shops lay off staff, spiral downwards fueled by the media.

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Well whether it's the media creating this or not it's not a nice situation to be in! :frown:

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Wouldn't "recession" be one word?

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Oh, yours is a typical response to landing in Ottawa in January (that was what the original post was dated). Poor numpty. Wait 'til June, perhaps it will look better.

Landing in Ottawa in January : that's a dream killer.