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Quote from: ACE on July 25, 2012, 08:59:34

Quote from: MissBaritone on July 25, 2012, 08:14:40

Quote from: ACE on July 23, 2012, 07:03:10

Quote from: Aden Roller on July 23, 2012, 02:07:15

Quote from: ACE on July 22, 2012, 20:39:50
Not a bad price,  I would not bother getting up for £350.

Just over £50 a week if you are a carer and do a minimum of 35 hours and have insufficient time left for any more than a small part time job if that. It works out at around £1.40 an hour max.

  Sorry.

If there are fools about that want to do that it is up to them.

No we're not fools when it's your parent lying there you do whatever you have to. The irony was when I did this I had to pay £5 per day to travel to my mum's and back. I'd actually have been better off claiming unemployment benefits and putting mum into a home

Misunderstanding on my part thinking who ever posted was working as a carer. Sorry. :-[

I'm a carer Ace but it's not a job I chose. I gave mine up as I couldn't look after my parents and work full-time. I gave up my income and took early retirement losing £3k from my pensions a year for life in the process.

I'm grateful to have the carer's allowance. It doesn't go far - it helps. It wasn't a choice I had a huge amount of control over. Money isn't everything - family is.  ;)

Sorry Cam we have nicked your thread, but the price ain't that bad taking into account that the builder does not just turn up, he has his overheads as well. When I price a job I have to pass on all the extras like overpriced materials, tax, vehicle running costs etc. The goverments have let the economy run riot and the customer pays,otherwise we would all go under.

Now to Aden, Although I gently mock my wife she is a very caring person, her job is assesing the amount of care the council can pay for and working out care plans for her clients, usually to be knocked back by her managers and having the wrathe of the families come down on her head when she can only allocate a pittance. She has often remarked that if the families were to go on strike the social services would be overwhelmed and would never cope. Now this is never going to happen as we all feel we have a duty to care for our loved ones. Trouble is this is just helping the government to shirk it's responsibilties. I flatly refused to take on the care of my parents years ago, just as I have told my kids to do the same for me. They done alright, as social services had to step in instead of ignoring the problem. Not an easy thing to do as I know, but stick to your guns and things will change.  Some people here took the council to court, because they had opted out of the critical care package. The council lost.

Quote from: Aden Roller on July 23, 2012, 02:07:15

Quote from: ACE on July 22, 2012, 20:39:50
Not a bad price,  I would not bother getting up for £350.

Just over £50 a week if you are a carer and do a minimum of 35 hours and have insufficient time left for any more than a small part time job if that. It works out at around £1.40 an hour max.

   Sorry.

Well that's me then!
I work part-time and am my son's sole carer!  I fit in work around when he is at school.  He is at his dad's down in Cornwall for 3 weeks atm......  The only 3 weeks a year I get a break! So what do I do?  I work all the overtime I can get hold of!

If I need work done, I have to save hard and long!

Quote from: ACE on July 25, 2012, 12:11:12

Now to Aden, Although I gently mock my wife she is a very caring person, her job is assesing the amount of care the council can pay for and working out care plans for her clients, usually to be knocked back by her managers and having the wrathe of the families come down on her head when she can only allocate a pittance. She has often remarked that if the families were to go on strike the social services would be overwhelmed and would never cope. Now this is never going to happen as we all feel we have a duty to care for our loved ones. Trouble is this is just helping the government to shirk it's responsibilties. I flatly refused to take on the care of my parents years ago, just as I have told my kids to do the same for me. They done alright, as social services had to step in instead of ignoring the problem. Not an easy thing to do as I know, but stick to your guns and things will change.  Some people here took the council to court, because they had opted out of the critical care package. The council lost.

I guess that's what we all pay our taxes for.  ;)

Way off topic - No more from me on this.  :)