I have to admit that following this course has not been easy, not in terms of the level of the work but finding time in such a busy life. I decided to do this course as I had come to a time in my life when I realized things had to change, I could no longer carry on doing the same old monotonous day job and living the same life, and the only way forward to better myself and succeed was to do a course. I have always loved working with computers and everything to do with them always came naturally to me. Over the years times have been tough having to deal with losing touch with my parents and then later finding out my mother has an incurable illness.

My boyfriend has found it difficult to hold down a job for many years so we have always struggled with money worries but I have never and won’t ever give up on him and am determined to help him make something of his life too. Just over a week ago I find out my boyfriend had yet again lost his job so instead of focusing on the negatives of the situation we looked at his positives and decided he needed to go back to college in order to fore fill his ambition of doing a degree. So I have been helping him prepare his application. I have always had a job and continuously brought home the money, I also negotiated with my employers for me to do an extra hour a day in order to earn more money to make ends meat but what comes along with doing more hours is less time to study for my course and extra tiredness as well as having to fit in normal everyday things like cooking, cleaning etc.

I struggled for a while and I guess my course work suffered a little until I found a way of making things work. I now get up earlier in the morning and get to work an hour and a half before I am meant to start work and I do my college work and then any opportunity I get whether it’s a break or lunch I will fit in some more college work. I find this way of working better as my brain is at it’s best at the start of the day rather than I get home from work and I can notice the difference in my TMA results. I am really pleased with my result this month in particular as the first lesson in the next part of the course was more challenging because there was more to learn in that one lesson than in previous lessons. I will continue working away with the only thing I can cling to that keeps me going, the fact that once I have completed my course my life will be so much better.