Well. I do some work at a contact centre in Sheffield - it’s a place where parents who have got divorced can come and drop their kids off to see the estranged parent (where divorces have been acrimonious). Anyway, another of the volunteers that was there was telling me about, well, basically her life story. And it was so interesting and inspiring! She was 73, although she didn’t seem it - she was really youthful in the way she talked. She said that she had been an engineer draughtsman a while ago, and that, at the age of 53, she had decided to change, and go into teaching.

So, after completing a degree in Sociology and Social Policy, and then a masters, she went in to teach at an A-Level college. She also mentioned, somewhat in passing, that her daughter had done her masters “in a term”. :O

Anyway, it was so good to hear her story because it made me realise that people change with time and they don’t necessarily have to get stuck in one career path. One of the things I’ve been worrying about is just that, getting stuck in the same job kinda thing.

Acutally, I’m so much more positive about the future. It’s not this big, scary thing hanging over me anymore, it’s a really exciting thing where loads of good stuff is going to happen :D. I’m gonna go into teaching, and I’m staying at Sheffield. After not knowing where on Earth I was going to live and what I was going to do next year, I know have four offers of accomodation (!) and I’m doing a PGCE. It’s all good!