Where do you want to be in 5yrs time?

**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!

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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

**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

**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

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)

**venus89** · 30-05-2010, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by Toothfairy

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!

)

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...

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

Originally Posted by Toothfairy

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

Originally Posted by Toothfairy

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

**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

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

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**venus89** · 30-05-2010, 07:23 PM

Originally Posted by Toothfairy

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

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

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.