High-tech supermum
By Jo Deeks on Thursday, 17th August 2000.
BUSY mum and night worker Maxine Collins, of Haverhill, has been nominated for an outstanding student award after managing to fit studying into her hectic life.
Mrs Collins, 44, of Chaplains Close, Haverhill, works from 6pm to 2am as an evening production clerk at Grampian Country Pork, as well as caring for son Liam, 10.
Amazingly she has managed to combine this with completing two computer courses in record time and has started on a third. Mrs Collins uses computers work and found she already knew most of what was included in her first computer literacy and information technology course.
Having completed her first course in a couple of months, Mrs Collins went on to an integrated business technology course and completed what should have been 30 sessions of work in just 12. She is now enrolled on a Sage Business Accounting course.
Mrs Collins grabs a few hours sleep after work, then gets up to take Liam to school and goes on to her courses at the West Suffolk College Haverhill Local Learning Centre
She said: “If I feel really tired I do have another sleep later, but you do get used to it. Even at weekends I have to stay up really late.
“When I finish this course Haverhill can not offer me anything more advanced at the moment, but I would like to carry on if I could. I was really pleased about being nominated for the award, it is like being nominated for an Oscar.”
The winners of the awards will go to the Barbican Centre in London in November.
Mrs Collins, 44, of Chaplains Close, Haverhill, works from 6pm to 2am as an evening production clerk at Grampian Country Pork, as well as caring for son Liam, 10.
Amazingly she has managed to combine this with completing two computer courses in record time and has started on a third. Mrs Collins uses computers work and found she already knew most of what was included in her first computer literacy and information technology course.
Having completed her first course in a couple of months, Mrs Collins went on to an integrated business technology course and completed what should have been 30 sessions of work in just 12. She is now enrolled on a Sage Business Accounting course.
Mrs Collins grabs a few hours sleep after work, then gets up to take Liam to school and goes on to her courses at the West Suffolk College Haverhill Local Learning Centre
She said: “If I feel really tired I do have another sleep later, but you do get used to it. Even at weekends I have to stay up really late.
“When I finish this course Haverhill can not offer me anything more advanced at the moment, but I would like to carry on if I could. I was really pleased about being nominated for the award, it is like being nominated for an Oscar.”
The winners of the awards will go to the Barbican Centre in London in November.
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