Changes here too! · Sunday February 17, 2008 by Ann
I’m posting because big changes have happened here very recently.
People often ask me how autonomously home educated young people with no qualifications get on when applying for jobs-and what would they write on the CV etc.
Alice-now aged 18, went for a recruitment weekend recently for a well known national organisation.
On the application form she wrote “home educated by parental choice using self directed learning.”
Then she filled in details of her life and work experiences.
Including helping to crew a yacht and look after the young children of that family, whilst they sailed around the UK for a couple of summers, the experience she had working for the mobile internet provider, the retail outlet and the fact that she helped run workshops for women who were victims of domestic violence.
She sent reference details with it as all her employers have been very happy with her work
They seemed to work in getting the attention of the recruiters.
Alice went along for the weekend and seemingly got on very well indeed.
She was told she has been accepted by the organization and then just a couple of weeks ago, had a phone call asking her to start the following week.
As accommodation is provided and the city is about about 90 mins drive from home, this meant we had exactly one week to get everything ready and move dd1 out and into her new accommodation.
She has been employed for exactly a week today.
She is having a ball. So far so good. I’m so thrilled for her-but missing her like crazy.
Lucy is missing her but didn’t stop her moving everything out of Alice’s (much bigger) room, measuring up the walls, to work out how much paint she needed, going and buying it and starting work on the redecoration
She has worked out her design scheme and measured up the floor space to work out what furniture of Alice’s she will keep and which of her own pieces will also fit in.
Her friend Laura came down to stay for a few days and help.
The work is almost finished-without any help from us -as she didn’t ask for any, and it is looking good.
Lucy has gone over to stay with an ex home ed friend, who now goes to school, for the weekend. She says she will do the final touches to Alice’s room and move in tomorrow when she returns in the morning.
Nearly the end of my turn A day by the lake......and how far she has come
Wow… Wonderful news!
— June Feb 18, 12:28 am #
Brilliant, well done!
— Sue Feb 18, 03:05 pm #
Fantastic, it is great to hear these accounts of older he kids proving the theories right. Especially when you are at the beginning and taking it on faith and intuition.
— maire stafford Feb 23, 02:16 pm #