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Taking the biscuit
- Location
- SE London, Bandit Country
Cheers Speicher!
Sleep well!
Sleep well!

Lord of the Teapot said:* Hands out tea *
Lord of the Teapot said:Your welcome Angelfishsolo. Special cuppa tea for when you get your 1,000th post
Landslide said:Lat brew of the working day before I scarper Northwards - anyone care to join me?
(In the brew that is, I've not got any spare train tickets for scarperage.)
Speicher said:I visited the Acquired Brain Injury unit today at my local College. They like to have volunteers to support people one-to-one, while the students are working towards their ECDL qualification. It helps that just a few years ago, I passed my ECDL Two. There would be a Tutor there, and the classes are very small, perhaps four students, with two support volunteers. Unusually these days, they plan ahead, and are doing the recruiting process for volunteers to possibly start in September. It was ever so, ever so quiet in there, buts lots going on. Drama, Health and Fitness, Art, Gardening, and Computer Skills.
Speicher said:Well, it is partly what suits me really.I used to work with adults with learning disabilities. But this usually involves some element of personal care. I much prefer the support part of the role. While I am looking for a job, I would like to do something constructive, and/or try it, to see if I would like to do it as paid employment.
Yep, some organisation seem to assume that if you want to volunteer for them it means you are a brain-dead pushover who can be used as a General Dogsbody.Speicher said:I have also just started to so some Voluntary work elsewhere recently, but that is not going quite as expected. I will see how that turns out.
I thought they wanted me for one afternoon, early in the week, to do admin. Turns out they have put me down for two or three slots per week, including Saturdays and Bank Holidays. Which might be OK if they had explained that first, and then listened to why that was not IME what I wanted to do.![]()