MissTinkerbell
11-08-2010, 01:28 PM
I'm starting to feel all dispondent at the moment. Hubby is in the RAF and we found out in February that he'd made the grade for promotion but we just had to wait and see if he got called up.
I knew at this point I was taking on new mindees for September and wanted to know what to do - decided not to say anything in case it didn't happen - I think I posted a thread on here asking advice on what to do.
Anyway we heard nothing and he applied for another post in his office that would have allowed him to stay here for another 4/5 years. This would be good could sign up my 2 mindees and get the twins settled in school with no worries of uprooting them 3/4 months after they had started school.
However he's told me today that they have given the post to someone else and that he is 6 places off being promoted which means a posting somewhere else. The thing that annoys me the most is that they have sent him on loads of courses to do this job and he is now fully qualified to do it, yet they have brought someone in who would need to go and do all the training because they haven't done any of it - so a complete waster of money and both parts because no doubt hubby will have a completely different job where he won't use that training anymore.
Whilst I'm pleased that he will get promotion I just don't want to move - I have the perfect set up with my mindees - all 3 are term-time only and have delightful parents who I get on great with - I can't see me being as lucky somewhere else.
I also feel for the twins because I think that they are going to take a long while to settle in to school (took them a whole term to get used to preschool) and they will just get settled and I will have to uproot them.
I know that this is the life of a RAF wife but just feel sometimes that the powers that be do not take into account the wives and families and realise the upheaval it causes - not only do I lose my mindees but it means that they have got to find new childminders and as I have been the first in both cases its going to be unsettling for them too.
At the moment I could juust sit down and cry.
I knew at this point I was taking on new mindees for September and wanted to know what to do - decided not to say anything in case it didn't happen - I think I posted a thread on here asking advice on what to do.
Anyway we heard nothing and he applied for another post in his office that would have allowed him to stay here for another 4/5 years. This would be good could sign up my 2 mindees and get the twins settled in school with no worries of uprooting them 3/4 months after they had started school.
However he's told me today that they have given the post to someone else and that he is 6 places off being promoted which means a posting somewhere else. The thing that annoys me the most is that they have sent him on loads of courses to do this job and he is now fully qualified to do it, yet they have brought someone in who would need to go and do all the training because they haven't done any of it - so a complete waster of money and both parts because no doubt hubby will have a completely different job where he won't use that training anymore.
Whilst I'm pleased that he will get promotion I just don't want to move - I have the perfect set up with my mindees - all 3 are term-time only and have delightful parents who I get on great with - I can't see me being as lucky somewhere else.
I also feel for the twins because I think that they are going to take a long while to settle in to school (took them a whole term to get used to preschool) and they will just get settled and I will have to uproot them.
I know that this is the life of a RAF wife but just feel sometimes that the powers that be do not take into account the wives and families and realise the upheaval it causes - not only do I lose my mindees but it means that they have got to find new childminders and as I have been the first in both cases its going to be unsettling for them too.
At the moment I could juust sit down and cry.