Life, but not as we know it .....

It has been a trying weekend, I am definitely technologically challenged . I am supposed to be an intelligent woman and should be able to perform the simplest of tasks; (how hard is it to install a scanner program?) But no, having spent too much time over the last couple of days going through the whole process in a logical way (well to me totally logical Captain) and I still haven't succeeded. The question is do I throw in the towel and just forget about the whole thing or do I follow my instinct and go back like a bad penny and try again before I ring a friend and ask for assistance? Who knows maybe I am just a sucker for punishment and will have one more try. What it has taught me is that I am not IT orientated and should just accept the fact that it is something that I should just use for pleasure and not try and earn a living in it. So that decision made for me, what do I do ? The increase it the retirement age will mean that we are going to have have to work longer and be equipped to support ourselves that much longer, but what about those of us who are struggling now to find something that we can do to support ourselves? Having raised a family and out of the job market for far too long has been a rude awakening and find myself marooned on a remote sandbank with no means of getting off. Yes, I can scrape enough money together to go and do a course, but what course? As money is already scarce I cannot afford to squander money on a course that is not going to provide me with an significant asset with which to find a job. There are far more qualified , experienced people out there already struggling to find a job, now must be one of the worst times to wake up and smell the coffee about the next step.

One thing is clear, I have to do something. I just wish I knew what it was.

This is life Jim, but not as we know it !!

Long Time No Here ....

It has been I while since I have put any words on here - no excuses really , just too tied up with other things going on in my life. I have missed the cathartic feeling that opening your mind, your heart to the power of the written word can give you. But on the other hand, oh how the misinterpretation of the written word can cause all sorts of misunderstandings! Imagine back in the days when there were no phones or internet and the only means of communicating were either by speaking directly to one another or by the written word. Today, I suppose it is just the same but there are just different media through which to achieve the same end. So how then with all these different ways of communicating, does it all go so miserably wrong? I enjoy listening to Fearne Cotton on Radio 1 when she does her feature on dating and the interpretation of texts from men to the female after the first date. It can be very amusing to listen to what she thinks it may mean and then others texting in their thoughts on the meaning too. I think the problem that men and women's brains are just wired so differently. What a male may think is a harmless statement can be seen in a completely different way by the female. I seem to have this problem again and again. I used to think I was paranoid, but now realise I am just a normal and other females think like me too (well some do)- what a relief !

Now what did that comment on Facebook really mean ???

And so it continues .......