Good news/Bad news
Had some good news today. One of the hospitals here in town does actually do a mid-year intake for their Grad Program. On the website, it does not detail that, but fortunately, that is incorrect. So I also found out the online applications for the Grad Program opened up at the beginning of the week, so I had better get my skates on.
The bad news - well not so much bad, but more annoying, or unhelpful. We are still waiting to find out if my husband is transferring to the RAAF and if we are moving mid-year. If we are moving, there is no point to me applying for a position here - but if we are not, or even if it is not until the end of the year, I should be.
So I have to apply anyway. If we find out we are moving mid-year, then I can withdraw, but it is just annoying to be still waiting on that information when there are a few things that hinge on this move. Our deciding to put our daughter into a private pre-school is another thing waiting on this information.
On another note, we have found out my husband has an Army exercise that clashes with my clinical placement. The problem with that is: either I could be placed outside of Townsville again, or I could be placed in Townsville, but still have shift-work which means still no-one to look after the kids. So my husband tried to get permission to stay behind and work instead of going out on exercise - I mean, this is in May and after June he won't be in the Army anymore anyway, so it shouldn't be too much of a problem.....right?? WRONG.
They have put us through the wringer - they even rang up the Uni to see if the Uni could help me out rather than them helping my husband out. They have asked why we can't pay the $600 for a family member to fly up here for the 4wks to look after the kids (our family works full-time though). Or why we can't pay for the kids to fly down to them for 4wks.
I will put the latter one in perspective. First, our children are too young to fly by themselves so we would have to fly down with them. That is $1200 for one of us to fly down and back, plus $600 for my daughter to fly down and my son would be free. We also pay $800 gross at daycare per fortnight. We would have to continue to pay this while they were gone, to keep their position, plus pay for a daycare in Adelaide (providing we could get them into one). So far, without the cost of the second daycare, we have a total cost of $3400 - just because they wouldn't want to let my husband not go on exercise. We told them to shove that idea. Then they suggested a babysitter. Well, the babysitters we use do not have childseats of their own to pick up my children from their daycare (which is what they would have to do while I am at work). One of our babysitters doesn't even have her own car - she walks to our house to babysit. Our friends have children of their own, and either couldn't deal with an extra 2, or I just wouldn't feel comfortable asking them. But the Army can not understand that either. The last thing was they suggested my husband apply for holidays for that time period - how weird is that. Rather than have someone do work for them back at base, they would have him take holidays, but even that may not get approved.
*sigh* It has really become one big hassle - all for my final placement to finish my degree.
That is how I am going to end this post. Nothing has been finalised - it is all up in the air and that is how I feel at the moment, up in the air.
Oh, and my little boy is sick too :(
The bad news - well not so much bad, but more annoying, or unhelpful. We are still waiting to find out if my husband is transferring to the RAAF and if we are moving mid-year. If we are moving, there is no point to me applying for a position here - but if we are not, or even if it is not until the end of the year, I should be.
So I have to apply anyway. If we find out we are moving mid-year, then I can withdraw, but it is just annoying to be still waiting on that information when there are a few things that hinge on this move. Our deciding to put our daughter into a private pre-school is another thing waiting on this information.
On another note, we have found out my husband has an Army exercise that clashes with my clinical placement. The problem with that is: either I could be placed outside of Townsville again, or I could be placed in Townsville, but still have shift-work which means still no-one to look after the kids. So my husband tried to get permission to stay behind and work instead of going out on exercise - I mean, this is in May and after June he won't be in the Army anymore anyway, so it shouldn't be too much of a problem.....right?? WRONG.
They have put us through the wringer - they even rang up the Uni to see if the Uni could help me out rather than them helping my husband out. They have asked why we can't pay the $600 for a family member to fly up here for the 4wks to look after the kids (our family works full-time though). Or why we can't pay for the kids to fly down to them for 4wks.
I will put the latter one in perspective. First, our children are too young to fly by themselves so we would have to fly down with them. That is $1200 for one of us to fly down and back, plus $600 for my daughter to fly down and my son would be free. We also pay $800 gross at daycare per fortnight. We would have to continue to pay this while they were gone, to keep their position, plus pay for a daycare in Adelaide (providing we could get them into one). So far, without the cost of the second daycare, we have a total cost of $3400 - just because they wouldn't want to let my husband not go on exercise. We told them to shove that idea. Then they suggested a babysitter. Well, the babysitters we use do not have childseats of their own to pick up my children from their daycare (which is what they would have to do while I am at work). One of our babysitters doesn't even have her own car - she walks to our house to babysit. Our friends have children of their own, and either couldn't deal with an extra 2, or I just wouldn't feel comfortable asking them. But the Army can not understand that either. The last thing was they suggested my husband apply for holidays for that time period - how weird is that. Rather than have someone do work for them back at base, they would have him take holidays, but even that may not get approved.
*sigh* It has really become one big hassle - all for my final placement to finish my degree.
That is how I am going to end this post. Nothing has been finalised - it is all up in the air and that is how I feel at the moment, up in the air.
Oh, and my little boy is sick too :(
posted by Ra'Phil | 9:34 pm
2 Comments:
Awww,I'm sorry to hear all that. I hope it all works out for you..
Hugs Joann.
Thanks Toria - I hope so too!! They have now decided to wait until the clinical placement is put up in April.
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