Hi all,
I'm 35 years old, married with 2 childen. The youngest is going to school in September and I'm trying to decide my options.
I didn't work for approx 7 years while my oldest was growing up. Since then I've worked in various jobs, mainly cleaning/catering/caring. I've also worked in an office as a secretary (did a secretarial course way back in the early 90's) for approx 2 years.
At present I am working as a catering assistant, part time, but it is not enough hours/money.
My problem is that I would like to go back to work full time once youngest starts school, but I dont have the qualifications to apply for any of the jobs I see in the paper. Every single thing I look at seems to have 'minimum experience of 1/2 years'. Ideally I would like to work in an office as a secretary or administrator. Things seem to have changed hugely in that domain in the last few years, and now a secretary/office person usually has to do some accounts + payroll also, which I have never done.
What should I do? Should I try and get on to a Fas training course + see where that leads me? I suppose I'd just have to make do on the allowance from them. Or what are my other options?
Any ideas/experiences welcome, I'm starting to get really down about this. Is there any office type job that would train me up on the job?
thanks.