I’ve been doing 8 hours sessional/contractor work a week and getting paid very well for it for almost 18 months now. I’m physically struggling with the 8 hours due to disability /illness but it means not having to rely on the state benefits and all the woes that go with claiming. 8hours also allows me to attend hospital up to three times a week for my appointments which is not negotiable.
The place I’m working are changing the role in May time, making it permanent staff and 21 hours a week but the pay will only be £2more a week than my current 8 hour role. I’ll have to interview for the job alongside others and while it will be highly sought after and loads of people would be happy with the ‘new’ wage and hours, I can’t help but feel hard done by. For me to apply means accepting essentially a pay cut of around £30 a hour to close to minimum wage. The job as it is now has been as a contractor for 25 years with a couple of people doing it in that time before me.
The new job will be almost 3 times the amount work for exactly the same pay doing exactly the same thing. Putting aside my physical struggles with the new amount of work which essentially will rule me out of the new job, Aibu to be a bit pissed off that they’re doing this?
I really thought I’d found a nice job that would see me to complete disability or retirement (whatever came first) and it took me ages to land this one. I’m gutted. No one wants disabled 50something year old women