This Is Not Going Well
Oct. 14th, 2013 06:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beanstalk_simsLast week, I found out that my two top universities wanted better grades than what I had. They wanted a B in GCSE maths - that's high school maths for Americans - and I only have a C. So I thought, no big deal, wandered up to the staff room and questioned whether or not I could retake my maths GCSE. Good news - I *could* take it! Bad news - it would cost £600.
Hahaha, no. I can't afford that.
After a weekend of trawling through prospectuses, I found a really nice university on the outskirts of London that would take me with what I do have - providing I do well on my pre-degree course this year. I expected that much, and I'm going down to have a look at the university in a couple of weeks.
So that worked out fine. But then something else cropped up - of course!
My job is seasonal, on a holiday camp. And because the holiday season is over, the hours have been going down slowly - and then quite dramatically. To the point where I receive a text message saying that my hours had been cut completely this week, leaving me with no work. That's fine, I'm on a zero hour contract, they're perfectly within their right to do that.
Only it leaves me without a job. So I'm having to sign on to receive benefits, and I'm worried and depressed and just fed up.
I realise that none of this is as bad as it could be, everything could be worse...but still. It still gets me down.
Hahaha, no. I can't afford that.
After a weekend of trawling through prospectuses, I found a really nice university on the outskirts of London that would take me with what I do have - providing I do well on my pre-degree course this year. I expected that much, and I'm going down to have a look at the university in a couple of weeks.
So that worked out fine. But then something else cropped up - of course!
My job is seasonal, on a holiday camp. And because the holiday season is over, the hours have been going down slowly - and then quite dramatically. To the point where I receive a text message saying that my hours had been cut completely this week, leaving me with no work. That's fine, I'm on a zero hour contract, they're perfectly within their right to do that.
Only it leaves me without a job. So I'm having to sign on to receive benefits, and I'm worried and depressed and just fed up.
I realise that none of this is as bad as it could be, everything could be worse...but still. It still gets me down.
