Your Jobs Of Work In Manchester

[lin]

MY SENTIMENTS EXACTLY TONY T.

LIN

[lin]

HI TOMMY, THANKS I'VE RECTIFIED THAT NOW, MUST BE THE STRESS OF ALL THE FOOTBALL.

LIN:)

[fluffymoat4]

I worked as my sister’s childminder for one and a half years and probably would have continued doing so had she not had a third child. I knew she would take some time off work to be with her new baby and that I would be surplus to requirements for a few months. At first I decided to do temporary jobs again while she decided when or if she would return to work. I so enjoyed the jobs I was given that I realised I didn’t want to be a childminder again and so I went from job to job, all over the Stretford and Manchester areas. In December of 1983 I joined a different temp agency and received training in word processing. With this additional string to my bow I began being offered more interesting jobs with better rates of pay. One day I was sent to a large computer company in the heart of Manchester to cover the maternity leave of a secretary there. I got on really well with the boss and his staff and I enjoyed the really interesting and challenging work. I was kept busy and the weeks and months just flew by. One day I was called into the boss’s office to be told that the secretary who’d gone on maternity leave had decided not to return to work. I was asked if I’d want the job as his secretary on a permanent basis? Of course I jumped at the chance! I spent the next four years witnessing lots of changes within the company. There were the usual annual checks into where the company could make savings in overheads and as each “group” was made smaller my workload also shrank. I was beginning to dread going into work, as I knew that most of the time I would be sat doing crosswords or filing my nails. The life had been sucked out of the job I’d adored and once more I was faced with a decision. Stay or leave? It was the end of February in 1988 and I decided “New Year, new start…”

[lin]

MO, IT SOUNDS LIKE WE STILL HAVE TO WATCH THIS SPACE? I CAN'T WAIT, BEATS GOING OUT IN THE COLD OR WATCHING TV...LOL!

HOPE YOU'RE STILL READING THIS TOMMY AND TONY?

LIN

[fluffymoat4]

FINAL INSTALMENT
The new start I decided upon would be to work from home. I spent the next few years typing up curriculum vitas, reports, thesis, dissertations, plus letters and quotes for local small companies. I eventually traded in my electronic typewriter and bought a word processor and printer. I didn’t make a fortune but it did allow me the luxury of being able to spend more time to do things around the house we’d moved to in 1986. In the Spring and Summer I could take on less typing jobs meaning I’d have time to spend on the garden and in the Autumn and Winter I would take on more typing jobs.
I should point out here that a few years into our married life we’d both had fertility tests done and were told it was highly unlikely we would ever conceive a child naturally. We couldn’t receive IVF treatment on the NHS as they were only (at that time) treating couples that had minor infertility problems (i.e. would culminate in a higher success rate). As we couldn’t afford to go private I’d thrown myself into my various jobs and now I was self-employed I was an even harder taskmaster! Each time I became an Aunty though I’d go through the mental anguish of wondering if we would ever become parents.
During the early part of the New Year of 1989 I rang the hospital to see if there had been any advances in IVF treatment and we were invited to attend an evening lecture (with other infertile couples) a few weeks later. After the lecture we approached a certain Professor’s secretary and asked if we could make an appointment. She looked at our file and suddenly became quite excited. They could offer us more than that. We could have our first FREE try at IVF early in December of that same year! We walked out of the hospital on a cloud. I carried on working from home but can honestly say that my heart wasn’t in it. I kept imagining what the future might hold. We attended a family party in August of that same year and everyone who knew what we were about to attempt wished us good luck. All of a sudden one of my older sisters took me to one side and said she thought I “looked” pregnant already. I promised her I would do a home pregnancy test – just to shut her up. I was on my own when I did the test and as the line turned blue which showed a positive result the only being I could share it with was our Manchester terrier aged 11! I then rang my husband’s place of work and left a message for him to ring home. I then rang the sister that had “suggested” I might be pregnant with the fantastic news. My husband later rang me to ask, “what’s wrong? Your message sounded urgent.” I told him the news but it just wouldn’t sink in. When he arrived home he still wouldn’t believe it and drove me round to our GP’s surgery. A few days later a hospital result confirmed what I already knew and we began acting as though we’d won the football pools (the lottery hadn’t been introduced in those days).
By now you are probably wondering why on earth I am droning on about this miraculous change to our lives and what it has to do with working in Manchester??
Then let me enlighten you… I finally became a MOTHER in March 1990 and from then on I have had the BEST JOB ever… being a MUM! We moved out of Manchester a few years after having our son and so being a MUM was the last job I ever did and the BEST job I ever had, in the Manchester area!!!

[lin]

WELL MO, IT CERTAINLY WAS A HAPPY ENDING, AND BOY YOU KNOW HOW TO TELL A STORY AND KEEP EVERYONE TRANSFIXED....LOL! WHAT ON EARTH ARE WE GOING TO DO NOW? I TAKE IT THAT YOUR SON IS AN ONLY CHILD?

YOU ARE NOW GOING TO HAVE TO CONTINUE WITH THE OTHER JOBS ETC THAT YOU'VE HAD OUTSIDE MANCHESTER? YOU CAN'T LEAVE US WITHOUT A DAILY INTAKE NOW...LOL!

LIN

[tony38337]

Mo? that was a great ending and a great result. Well done both.

Tony T

[wynwilliams]

Little MO, friend, that was the most fanastic story, l read the whole lot in one day , one sitting, it was great, you certainly have a way with telling a story. You will have to start on another story now, you had me sitting on the end of my swivel chair. Have you thought about writing for a serial programme, all of us here would be hanging on waiting for the next episode. Well done, stuff the tv now!!!!

[wynwilliams]

Don,t think l,ll put my job stories on now, yours topped the lot

[mo]

LITTLE MO. THANKS A LOT FOR YOUR FANASTIC STORY I LOVED EVERY WORD OF IT AND LOVED THE WAY YOU WROTE IT; KEPT EVERY ONE IN SUSPENSE.. WHAT A GIRL

[lin]

wynwilliams said:

Don,t think l,ll put my job stories on now, yours topped the lot

OH GO ON WYN, WE'D LOVE TO HEAR THEM

LIN

[fluffymoat4]

lin said:

WELL MO, IT CERTAINLY WAS A HAPPY ENDING, AND BOY YOU KNOW HOW TO TELL A STORY AND KEEP EVERYONE TRANSFIXED....LOL! WHAT ON EARTH ARE WE GOING TO DO NOW? I TAKE IT THAT YOUR SON IS AN ONLY CHILD?

YOU ARE NOW GOING TO HAVE TO CONTINUE WITH THE OTHER JOBS ETC THAT YOU'VE HAD OUTSIDE MANCHESTER? YOU CAN'T LEAVE US WITHOUT A DAILY INTAKE NOW...LOL!

LIN

Sorry Lin, I meant to reply to this post last night but forgot. Yes, our son was our only child. He has never behaved like a spoilt brat though, he has always been a giving/sharing person. He's grown into a fine young man now and is doing really well at his Business Studies College course. He came home the other evening with a double distinction in Office Skills (and two Certificates that any parent would be proud to see).

I can't wait to read of other peoples experiences of Jobs of work. My eldest sister worked at Kelloggs a long time ago and I bet that she could write a good serial (cereal)! LOL

Lin, I can't continue to write about jobs I did when I left Manchester because I didn't work outside the home. We'd bought a house with a very large rear garden in North Yorkshire and I spent a lot of time getting both in order. I also became our son's schools PTA secretary which kept me busy besides going "back to school" and finally taking my GCSEs (passed all subjects taken). I did take on a couple of jobs just before we left the area and returned to Manchester BUT the stories regarding them would have you all falling asleep I'm afraid. I am now living back in North Yorkshire and am once again doing up a tired old bungalow with equally tired old gardens (and loving every minute).

[lin]

Hi Mo...You must be very proud of him, I don't think that an only child is necessarily spoilt, my mum was an only child and she was never spoilt, or if she was it never showed in later life.

Lets hope that more people post their jobs of work.

I'm sure whatever you write about your jobs wouldn't bore us, we've all thoroughly enjoyed the read.

You can come down here and sort out our gardens if you like...lol!

Lin

[jeanmsmith]

Well Little Mo, I finally got round to reading your fantastic story, like you i went working away for a summer season, to port isaac, north cornwall. i had just met arthur as well, he did visit me once but as lin knows cornwall on the train was not that easy to get to, always had to change at birmingham i think, then port isaac is not that straight forward without a car, it is where doc martin was filmed last year. when i came back to manchester, i went back to my old job and absolutely hated it, i then applied for a job that was advertised, C.I.D typist for the police at moss side police station, i got that job and i loved it, i was there for six years, then left when i was about to have Sarah, i left to be a full time mum, I had my 21st, engagement, marriage and then my pregnancy there, they were fantastic to work for.

[lin]

Hi Jean...Yes I know exactly how it is in cornwall trying to get anywhere.
Nice to hear about your jobs before coming a full time mum.

Lin

[lin]

Hi...Come on everyone, surely you have jobs of work you can mention, or are they top secret?
You can email as little as you want, or an epic like Little Mo...lol!

Lin

[nannyjoan7]

hi lin
WHEN I LEFT SCHOOL WHICH WAS BAGULEY HALL I WENT TO WORK AT SMITHS STORE AT THE TOP OF HALL LANE THEN TO WYLEX IN SHARSTON GREAT BUNCH OF PEOPLE WHO WORK THERE THEN I CAME TO CALIFORNIA AS A NANNY AND HAVE BEEN HERE EVER SINCE BUT STILL MISS WYTHENSHAWE VERY MUCH BYE FOR NOW JOAN

[lin]

HI JOAN..IS THIS WHY YOU'RE CALLED NANNYJOAN?
YOU MUST LIKE IT IN CALIFORNIA THOUGH? I HAVE A FRIEND OR TWO OUT THERE.
I USED TO LIVE IN WYTHENSHAWE WHEN I WAS LITTLE, BUT WE MOVED TO DEVON, THEN AFTER SEVERAL YEARS WE ENDED UP IN CORNWALL.

LIN

[nannyjoan7]

HI LIN YES I LOVE CALIFORNIA BUT WILL ALWAYS CALL WYTHENSHAWE MY HOME.HAVENT BEEN HOME IN 4 YEARS AS MY HUSBOND CANT FLY ANYMORE HE IS ON OXGEN 24 HOURS A DAY BUT I STILL GET MY SWEETS FROM HOME MY FAMILY SEND ME SOME. WHERE IN WYTHENSHAWE DID YOU LIVE I LIVED OFF WENDON ROAD . WELL BYE FOR NOW JOAN

[lin]

HI JOAN...I LIVED AT RAVENSCAR, WE LEFT THERE IN 1956 I THINK?
YOU MUST GET PRETTY HOMESICK WITH NOT BEING ABLE TO GET BACK THERE NOW, NICE THAT THE FAMILY SEND YOU SWEETS THOUGH..I TAKE IT YOU MET YOUR HUSBAND IN MANCHESTER AS WELL?

BYE 4 NOW

LIN

[Lisa]

Hi Joan, Have you tried the website for English sweets? I did post it on a while ago but its worth having a browse just to make your mouth water and make you miss England even more......here it is: http://www.aquarterof.co.uk......happy memories

[nannyjoan7]

HI LIN I DID MEET MY HUSBAND HERE IN CALIFORNIA BUT IT WAS IN A ENGLISH PUB HE IS A AMERICAN HIS FIRST WIFE WAS FROM YORKSHIRE WE HAVE BEEN WED FOR 42 YEARS SO I THINK I WILL KEEP HIM LOL. BUT I DO MISS HOME I STILL HAVE A SISTER IN MACCLESFIELD AND AND LOTS OF FAMILY IN CHESHIRE AND BENCHILL. SO THATS WHY IT WILL ALWAYS BE HOME TO ME OK BYE FOR NOW JOAN

[nannyjoan7]

THANKS LISA FOR THE WEBSITE NOW MY MOUTH IS REALY WATERING AND I WILL ALWAYS MISS ENGLAND . THANKS AGAIN JOAN

[lin]

HI JOAN...WELL I THINK AFTER 42 YEARS IT'S NO GOOD TRADING HIM IN FOR A NEW MODEL, IT WOULDN'T QUITE BE THE SAME WOULD IT?..LOL!
THINK I'LL STICK WITH WHAT I'VE GOT AS WELL...38 YEARS THIS YEARS...BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW AYE?..LOL!

BYE 4 NOW

LIN

[Lisa]

Hi Lin and Joan, How refreshing to hear that you are both happy and satisfied with your partners. You've restored my faith in happy marriages......... I'm sick of hearing moaning minnies going on about their partners when all they need to do is GET OUT. If they are not satisfied, why stay? One only has to watch morning programs like Jeremy Kyle to make one wonder what on earth has happened to this country. Thanks girls for that

[lin]

HI LISA....FAME AT LAST, WE HAVE RESTORED YOUR FAITH HAVE WE? WELL THAT'S NICE TO KNOW....DON'T KNOW ABOUT JOAN BUT I OFTEN JOKINGLY HAVE A MOAN BUT I'M HAPPY WITH WHAT I'VE GOT...OF COURSE IT DOES HELP WHEN THEY GO AWAY WORKING FROM TIME TO TIME, I DO LIKE MY OWN SPACE, AND QUITE HAPPY WITH MY OWN COMPANY IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? I DON'T NEED TO HAVE SOMEONE AROUND ALL OF THE TIME...BUT I HAVE TO SAY ROGER IS AS GOOD AS GOLD, AND WILL DO ANYTHING FOR ME...WITHIN REASON OF COURSE...LOL! SO WHAT IS THERE TO MOAN ABOUT?
I COULDN'T STAY IN ONE OF THOSE MARRIAGES WHERE THE PARTNER COMES HOME BLIND DRUNK EVERY NIGHT AND STARTS BATTERING THE WIFE, I WOULD HAVE TO LEAVE OR I'D END UP IN PRISON MYSELF.

LIN

[haganj2005]

Hi Little Mo, fab story, I notice you said your sister worked at Kellogs ask her did she know a Fred Taylor, he was my brother.

[fluffymoat4]

haganj2005 said:

Hi Little Mo, fab story, I notice you said your sister worked at Kellogs ask her did she know a Fred Taylor, he was my brother.

I'm not in contact with her at the moment - we only seem to meet up at family occasions these days (please don't ask??). Anyway, you could always ask Fred if he knew a Susan McNamee?? She'd have worked there (in the offices) up until around 1973 or 1974. Glad you liked my story anyway, thanks!

[fluffymoat4]

lin said:

HI JOAN...WELL I THINK AFTER 42 YEARS IT'S NO GOOD TRADING HIM IN FOR A NEW MODEL, IT WOULDN'T QUITE BE THE SAME WOULD IT?..LOL!
THINK I'LL STICK WITH WHAT I'VE GOT AS WELL...38 YEARS THIS YEARS...BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW AYE?..LOL!
BYE 4 NOW LIN

Lin, I agree with Joan, you and Tommy. Marriage is a great place to be if it's with the right person. I love rollercoasters anyway and we're coming up to our 29th Anniversary of ups and downs. I think that's why we've survived this long, because we take the rough with the smooth. Also, my hubby has spent some time away from home occasionally and it's helped me to be my independent self. I love the fact that he's amazed with me whenever he's been away and I have coped with something that normally he'd have dealt with. Yet I leave him to be the "man of the house" when he is around. I think that's the recipe for a good marriage - knowing when to take and when to give - well, it's worked for us!

[lin]

Mo...you're right, it's a matter of taking the rough with the smooth, we all have ups and downs and you have to work through them...being on your own if your husband works away a lot does make you independant, you find yourself doing things that normally your husband would do if he was there, which is a good thing....again you are right in as much that you do need to be with the right person....but don't you think that what Tommy and I were talking about is the fact that they give up at the first hurdle these days?
I think if you do end up with someone who starts hitting you from day one, then yes, you need to get out of that sort of relationship pretty darn quick.

Lin