Wellers and Whitehead

Yes it's hard these days. It's not just the tighter controls, it's that their are fewer children around to adopt. It's not an easy thing to do, anyway. One of my friends got approved for adoption and she was SO excited, it had been her dream for years. But she wasn't prepared for the actual process.

 

They got approved and then got told to wait for the call. When you get the call, one partner has to give up work immediately (there must be one stay-at-home parent). Then you visit to see the baby and you have to take a piece of clothing you've worn, which you leave with the baby so he/she gets used to your scent.

 

Then you have just a few days to equip the nursery and get your home ready, then you go and pick up the baby and go home!

 

You can just imagine how overwhelming it is to have no baby one day, and a week later you're a mother. No nine months to get ready for it! She really struggled at first to bond with the baby. I think she was lucky that it was a small baby - some people adopt at older ages and I'd think it must be much harder to think of it as your own.

That at doesn't sound like the average adoption...it's normally a very well planned process..occurring over months...

I'm really struggling with...I'll just pick the most appropriate age to have a child concept..and like magic it happens...it should happen when you find the right person..sometimes life doesn't just go to plan..

Hi

 

I am planning to move to Maroochydore/ Noosa area in March 2015. I currently work in Destination and travel marketing but am considering doing a TEFL course for a change of career. Any views on language school opportunities in the region would be useful. Many thanks. Hayley

Have you looked at job prospects for your skills, living in these areas??? If not I would do so..

Why look for negatives? If you do that you might start looking and focusing on them and think "xxx was right". Just get here, do your own thing and see what you reckon.[/

 

I believe you have to do your own thing and find out for yourself, but I strongly believe in doing your home work about the positive and negative.

Yes i live in N ireland but practice in the republic of Ireland. I am in Child Protection (CP) just wondering if you were too? I have reached team leader level. Thanks I have my visa 175 me and husband and our 2 kids need tro validate by aug. thinking sydney or brisbane

Yeh I was Cp/lac sw fir 5 years in UK, will pm u later. I'm in Sydney (apparently one if the better states fir Cp!!?? I will pm later.

sorry for jumping on your thread LORNA G but Wellers and Whitehead what kind of things get you going about social being backward? Are you in CP? I enjoy my career and have alot of experience and would feel challenged by lack of motivation to change the so called backwardness..is this the case?

I can't nearly read your message as on phone and can't read it in the sun. Are you in the UK? Social worker? In Cp? Planning to emigrate? I will pm you later when I can see what i'm writing. :-)

I may get slated for expressing my personal experiences but hey ho!!

I don't regret move to Oz as its something I have worked towards for most of my life in one way or another..the thought of buying a house in the UK was not for me, as moving to Oz was all I ever wanted. So here we are, a year after moving to Oz and things that I never expected to be sooooo different are, for example my job (social work) it is soooo backwards its not even funny..ironic really as part of the reason I studied it was because it was on the jobs in demand list (plus having a genuine interest in the field). It would appear from working in Oz that people lack alot of common sense, professionalism....and on it goes! I could write a whole book on how not to practice social work just from my year working in Oz! So for me the job is a huge part of why I'm not settling.

My Dad has recently visited and it is clear his health is deteriorating, we are a close family so thats always going to be a struggle.

Money dissapears in a flash...you take $50 out of the cash machine (I think of it as a 20 pound note..you cant buy alot with it) and its gone before you know it. As I havent secured a perm job (mainly coz I cant drive and 95% of social work jobs say it is essential to do so..even if it does not reuire a license for the role!! Bizzare..doesnt make sense..if you dont need to drive why is it essential to have a drivers license??) im always wary on how much I spend just in case I am out of work the week after. I have always had a fulltime perm job with the stability of knowing each month in the UK knowing i had X amount going into my bank.

I wanted out of the UK 'for a better life' in Oz where on previous holidays/whv I have had the most amazing times!! Living the dream does not exist in my opinion, and I am so looking forward to going back to the Uk for a 3 week hol in march..that will be the decider for me I think..stay or go??!!

Living in Oz works better for some than it does others..depends on your job/if you can get work, if you have a close family............so many variables as to why it will or wont work..I wouls say give it a go..better to know one way or another....I wouldnt sell a house (if you have one) just in case...I know people that have lived here for years and didnt sell the house and will probably return to live in the UK at some point.

Good luck with whatever you decide.