Is she daft
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| Author: | Brummie Cabbie [ Thu Jun 17, 2010 12:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Single mum of four takes on The Knowledge |
Knowledge puts mum Sam on the road to new career 16 June 2010 A single mum-of-four is hitting the road in a black cab to pin down a job flexible enough to fit around the kids. Samantha Dillon, 43, whose children are aged from 11 to 17, spends 16 hours a week studying The Knowledge - the daunting training black cab drivers undergo to learn the map of London. Female black cabbies are still rare and she took the plunge after struggling to find a job that allowed her to look after her family. Ms Dillon, who lives in Haringey Park, Crouch End, said: "The freedom, I think that's what appealed to me the most. If the children needed me, I could just stop work and go and be with them. "That was the biggest difficulty for me to get back into work or any kind of training." She reached the first goalpost recently, passing a map test after learning 320 road routes by heart and the study continues. The Knowledge takes at least two years to pass and drivers must memorise 25,000 London streets and the quickest routes between destinations. A grant of £1,495 from the Barclaycard Horizons Your Education fund made her career change possible. It was delivered by the charity Family Action, which helps lone parents with the costs of career training. "We're all going to benefit," said Ms Dillon. "After many years of looking after the children I'm now having a new lease of life. "I'm the kids' mum always, but I'm Sam now as well! My children can see me independent, and they can see that if I can go back and study, they can do anything." Of London's 23,000 black cab drivers, only five per cent approximately are women. Source; tottenhamjournal.co.uk |
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| Author: | Brummie Cabbie [ Thu Jun 17, 2010 12:28 am ] |
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Good luck, love! |
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| Author: | Stationtone [ Thu Jun 17, 2010 1:58 am ] |
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Is she daft
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| Author: | Brummie Cabbie [ Thu Jun 17, 2010 7:15 am ] |
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stationtone wrote: Is she daft
Why do you say that? |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Thu Jun 17, 2010 7:15 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Single mum of four takes on The Knowledge |
Brummie Cabbie wrote: A grant of £1,495 from the Barclaycard Horizons Your Education fund made her career change possible.
Can we all have some of that? |
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| Author: | Brummie Cabbie [ Thu Jun 17, 2010 7:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Single mum of four takes on The Knowledge |
Sussex wrote: Brummie Cabbie wrote: A grant of £1,495 from the Barclaycard Horizons Your Education fund made her career change possible. Can we all have some of that? What career change are you envisaging then? |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Thu Jun 17, 2010 7:18 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Single mum of four takes on The Knowledge |
Brummie Cabbie wrote: Sussex wrote: Brummie Cabbie wrote: A grant of £1,495 from the Barclaycard Horizons Your Education fund made her career change possible. Can we all have some of that? What career change are you envisaging then? I can pretend to read a few London maps for that amount. |
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| Author: | GBC [ Thu Jun 17, 2010 12:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Single mum of four takes on The Knowledge |
Brummie Cabbie wrote: Of London's 23,000 black cab drivers, only five per cent approximately are women.
Phew. 
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| Author: | GBC [ Thu Jun 17, 2010 12:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Single mum of four takes on The Knowledge |
Brummie Cabbie wrote: A grant of £1,495 from the Barclaycard Horizons Your Education fund made her career change possible.
It was delivered by the charity Family Action, which helps lone parents with the costs of career training. Whilst the other 99.9% of London Taxi drivers, men, women, black, white, yellow etc do it off their own back and finances. FFS. |
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| Author: | Brummie Cabbie [ Thu Jun 17, 2010 4:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Single mum of four takes on The Knowledge |
GBC wrote: Brummie Cabbie wrote: A grant of £1,495 from the Barclaycard Horizons Your Education fund made her career change possible. It was delivered by the charity Family Action, which helps lone parents with the costs of career training. Whilst the other 99.9% of London Taxi drivers, men, women, black, white, yellow etc do it off their own back and finances. FFS. I now take the view that if a grant or benefit is there for you to legally accept & which is of assistance to you, then you should take it. Because if you don't for some moral-high-ground reason, then others will. And they may not be as deserving as you might be. |
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| Author: | ezetobebad [ Fri Jun 18, 2010 1:22 am ] |
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Well done to Barclays for helping to get someone into work. |
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| Author: | Nigel [ Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:08 am ] |
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If she wants some loving chuck her this way. |
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| Author: | grandad [ Sat Jun 19, 2010 8:31 am ] |
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Nigel wrote: If she wants some loving chuck her this way.
She already has 4 kids, I think she has been getting plenty of loving. 
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