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Toothfairy
30-05-2010, 04:38 PM
I am doing the DHC and our tutor has asked us to have a think about where we want to be in 5yrs time.

I would like to become an accredited CM and to go on to do a Foundation Degree in Childcare. (Thats if I don't win the lottery first! :D )

Where do you want to be?

singingcactus
30-05-2010, 04:49 PM
No idea where I will be in 5 years. We will get another posting in 4 years so could be anywhere in the world! Wouldn't mind an embassy posting though.
No idea what will be happening with childcare because no idea where we will be in the world.

LOOPYLISA
30-05-2010, 05:07 PM
Not in the uk :thumbsup:

Curly Quavers
30-05-2010, 05:21 PM
I want to be living in a bigger house local to here but more in the country with some land. On that land we will build a kennel block where we will offer boarding kennel facilities and we want to do the dog breeding on a bigger scale.

Not sure if minding will be part of this it might for a while as we get established.

That is the plan but need big bucks to get us started :(

TheBTeam
30-05-2010, 05:22 PM
Me not where I am right know, dont know if the answer is physical or emotional but just not here:(

Hebs
30-05-2010, 05:38 PM
hopefully almost qualified as a social worker :thumbsup:

Nadine Beazley
30-05-2010, 05:38 PM
In five years time I would like to be running my own childcare agency, though I have started the ground work already, so maybe that should be running a hugely sucessful childcare agency! lol

I don't know about the minding tho :huh: If we actually manage to have a baby together then of course I will still be minding, then I'm home for them

Zoomie
30-05-2010, 06:27 PM
In Australia, hopefully as a family care worker (aka childminder) :D

venus89
30-05-2010, 06:41 PM
I am doing the DHC and our tutor has asked us to have a think about where we want to be in 5yrs time.

I would like to become an accredited CM and to go on to do a Foundation Degree in Childcare. (Thats if I don't win the lottery first! :D )

Where do you want to be?

Do you do your DHC in Maidstone? That's exactly what my tutor has asked us to do!

babs
30-05-2010, 06:45 PM
lying on some red hot beach after winning the lottery...:D :D :D

on the real side im not sure hubby's business is taking off in a major way so maybe doing more for him and less cming, would love to open my own nursery too...

Toothfairy
30-05-2010, 06:48 PM
Venus, I'm doing the DHC in Tunbridge Wells but I did the ICP course in Maidstone as the Tonbridge/Tunbridge Wells course was cancelled.

venus89
30-05-2010, 06:51 PM
Venus, I'm doing the DHC in Tunbridge Wells but I did the ICP course in Maidstone as the Tonbridge/Tunbridge Wells course was cancelled.

Ah right - I did my ICP in Tonbridge...... Who's your tutor? We have Gill English....

snufflepuff
30-05-2010, 06:56 PM
Id like to have another baby by then!
Childminding wise i hope to be earning enough to match what i was earning before i had my son. I'd quite like to start the Early Years degree or NVQ 4. too.

Toothfairy
30-05-2010, 06:57 PM
I have Gillian Jones, she's a fab Tutor.
I've done units 2 & 4 and I'm just doing unit 5 at the moment, Ive only got unit 3 to do after that.

venus89
30-05-2010, 07:00 PM
I have Gillian Jones, she's a fab Tutor.
I've done units 2 & 4 and I'm just doing unit 5 at the moment, Ive only got unit 3 to do after that.

She did my ICP - she is great, but she was a really strict timekeeper when we had her - no finishing early!

Toothfairy
30-05-2010, 07:06 PM
She is strict, two CM's had to leave this Unit as they did'nt do their homework (we were given time off the course to do it, so they were over the number of hours you are allowed to miss as they had been on their First aid course and already missed a saturday).

But I like her teaching style and I find her easy to get on with.

I may have to do my last unit (3) at a different venue as I missed it here as I was in hospital.

Tinglesnark
30-05-2010, 07:15 PM
i will be a married woman with hopefully another 2 children in a much bigger house with little to no money worries, my vacancies filled and a car big enough to cart them all around :thumbsup:

Mookins
30-05-2010, 07:16 PM
ooooh id love to have a conservatory by then so have a room especially for mindees so my house is toyless :laughing:

would also like to be able to be selling plants...love love love gardening

x x x x:clapping:

venus89
30-05-2010, 07:23 PM
She is strict, two CM's had to leave this Unit as they did'nt do their homework (we were given time off the course to do it, so they were over the number of hours you are allowed to miss as they had been on their First aid course and already missed a saturday).

But I like her teaching style and I find her easy to get on with.

I may have to do my last unit (3) at a different venue as I missed it here as I was in hospital.

Well fair enough - at the end of the day it was a decent amount of time off for three obs... (Although I had to catch the bus as my car wasn't working so I got home later than I normally would have!). I got on well with her too. She's no nonsense.....

I have the next session, next month, then I'm finished :clapping: I can't make th elast session but that's a short one anyway. It will be lovely to have my Saturdays back after 2 years :D

TheBTeam
30-05-2010, 07:25 PM
My ds will be coming up 17 so would like to be in the position of knowing I have raised him to be a sensible level head boy, and be able to sleep in my bed at night without worry!

A big part of me wants to have moved by them to a different kind of life more in the countryside, probably will still be minding, so not sure if I am brave enough to upsticks and move.

daisyboo1980
30-05-2010, 07:27 PM
i will be married and bump will be starting school, i would love another baby and as for a career im not sure would love to be a photographer not sure i want to do , dont even no if i'll childmind again after my maternity leave

Carpet Monkeys
30-05-2010, 07:40 PM
Not in the uk :thumbsup:

With you on that one - DH has got 2 more years left in the RN and then we are outta here, hopefully, unless he gets an extension or another overseas posting in the meantime! Living overseas in SE Asia for 3 years has really opened our eyes up ... hoping to go to either Aus, NZ (DH to join their Navy) or back to Singapore.

cherishcare
30-05-2010, 09:40 PM
Well after I eventually finish my registration forms and eventually get my certificate and get started I have a few goals.

Be a very good childminder obviously!
Complete the Diploma in Home-based Childcare.
I don't know if the CSSIW grades inspections but if they do I'd like to achieve an outstanding :)
I'd like to partner up with my local college and take on childcare students.
Maybe get accredited for early years but I've not thoroughly looked into things like this yet.

On a more personal note I'd love to buy a house by then and hopefully add another little one to the family :)

Azzie x

BlondeMoment
30-05-2010, 09:44 PM
I want two kids of my own (at least) and our own house with at least 3 bedrooms LOL! Renting sucks!

Leanne59
31-05-2010, 04:29 AM
I would love to be a well known and full childminder!!
as i have no lo's yet.....
Im easily pleased!:D

Jelly Baby
31-05-2010, 07:53 AM
Hmm hard one as i am very 2 sided!!

At the mo i am very full all the time and earn very good money so would love that to continue! I would like to get more well known and carry on doing well.
I LOVE our house as it is new and completely my cup of tea so at the mo have no intentions to move.

The other side of me would love to move to an older style house and do it up, would love enough land to open our own cattery and do that as there is nothing for a fair distance from us.

Who knows in 5 years what will happen though hey!

Rubybubbles
31-05-2010, 08:25 AM
5 yrs is such a long time away:panic:

I will have moved about 3 more times:eek:! I am hopefully going to have my GCSE Maths and then onto foundation in somthing, not sure which direction I want to take yet:blush: .


I would like to own my own home, even if not living in it, just so we can be on the ladder!

Childminding wise I can honestly see me carrying on wiht childminding. Every time I move I look into somthing else, but I always manage to fall back onto it and it suits my life style so much (apart from it taking over the house:laughing: )

As long as my family stay happy and healthy, I couldn't ask for anything more

Who knows?

singlewiththree
31-05-2010, 08:28 AM
I finish my degree with 2 years and will hopefully be in a well paid, flexible job somewhere :)

sonia ann
31-05-2010, 08:30 AM
I would like to be retired and have a house full of grandchildren..........:) :blush:

Chimps Childminding
31-05-2010, 08:47 AM
By then I will be 53:eek: and my "boys" will be 24 and 22 so probably won't need me to be at home for them :laughing: Will still be living here I am sure unless I win the lottery, but job wise not sure.

June (cm next door) is talking about moving back to Scotland when her son (who gets married this year) starts a family so she can be close to them (he works up there and his fiancee is from Scotland)! Don't really fancy cm without June next door, I would find it awfully lonely - so simple answer is I don't know :rolleyes:

sonia ann
31-05-2010, 09:13 AM
By then I will be 53:eek: and my "boys" will be 24 and 22 so probably won't need me to be at home for them :laughing: Will still be living here I am sure unless I win the lottery, but job wise not sure.

June (cm next door) is talking about moving back to Scotland when her son (who gets married this year) starts a family so she can be close to them (he works up there and his fiancee is from Scotland)! Don't really fancy cm without June next door, I would find it awfully lonely - so simple answer is I don't know :rolleyes:

you sound like me .................similar stage in life..............my friend gave up minding 2yrs ago and I have found it quite lonely since....:)

Winnie
31-05-2010, 09:39 AM
Well if i'm not retired by then (i'll be 57 :eek: ) i think i would like to be 'pottering' around doing childminding- my way (depends on 'developments in childcare' and whether i'm still allowed to do it my way to benefit the children in my care- i will not let my setting become a clone just to please the govenment ) or i quite fancy being a phlebotomist or gardening as a job :)

Carol M
31-05-2010, 12:51 PM
In my dreams I would love to be the owner of a top notch livery yard in the New Forest.
In reality I will probably still be childminding. I'm happy with that!
Carol x

hayleychildcare
31-05-2010, 01:56 PM
id like to be 3 stone lighter..:laughing:
my kids will be 19 and 14 by then so i will probably be still living here running around after then. Hubby and me will be 41 then and if i havent won the lottery i would like hubby to be working day shift only (hate minding with him in the house through the day) and i would like weekends off by then :thumbsup:

AND enough money to go on holday 4 times a year:clapping:

Playmate
31-05-2010, 02:23 PM
I would like to be running my own home-based pre-school for 2-5 yr olds With hubby of course. Would love to be in a financial possition just to do 3hr sessions both morning and afternoon 4 days aweek.

Working towards accreditation at the moment, but I think the rest is just a dream unless we win the lottery because in the area I live, it would just not be sustainable :(

teacake2
31-05-2010, 02:27 PM
I will be 61 then:eek: so really I should have retired, but thinking of moving to Sicily with family and setting up a school for teaching english as a second language and providing good quality childcare, so who knows, hope it does come off though, doing what I enjoy doing and being in the sun as well, heaven.
Teacake2

RCTLisa
31-05-2010, 02:30 PM
I would like to become a CM (instead of dreaming about it) with 2 kids and a small extention to make room for toys and bits for the little ones.

Not much chance of anything at the moment :(

onceinabluemoon
31-05-2010, 05:22 PM
Strangely exactly where I am now.

More organised definitely, tidier definitely, more qualified too, but right here doing what I'm doing, just better than I'm doing it now.

I've already done everything else I want to do. :)