What min wage job do you do?

[RomanyRoots]

If you have a min wage job, what do you do?
Looking for inspiration

Agreed Romany. Anyone looking after children should be on at least the living wage. My mum works as a TA in a school where all the children are mainly non English speaking refugees, immigrants and disabled. At the moment she's 1:1 with a wheelchair bound boy who is only 7 but tall and heavy. She has to change his nappy and introduce him to new sensations like having his teeth brushed or eating more solid food. He should really be in a specially designed school that can cater for these needs and more but at this moment in time it's the best that Manchester city council can do for him. He might be in the same class room as the teacher officially but it's my mum who is responsible for his welfare and education. When she greets a new child she is told "We and by that we mean you have to get the child to this point (could be anything from reading and writing to not throwing food or hitting out) by XYZ date. Over the years my mum has been hit, punched, screamed at and taken for granted. She supports the NQT's (who seem to idolise her - she's a no nonsense kindly Irish lady that people gravitate towards ) in settling in and getting up to speed. They recognise that her experience and methods have value so sometimes they fight for her for themselves. Somedays she doesnt get chance to go to the toilet as her school have got rid of lunch staff and have made it the TA's job. She manages a 10 minute sit down with her lunch maybe twice a week. My mum has been diagnosed with COPD. She struggles to walk up stairs now but she can't afford to leave. She is hoping that she'll be up for the next round of redundancies. If not she has 6 more years until she can retire. She gets less than £9 an hour. She changes kids lives and gets little back.

Also when she gets in from work on a Friday evening she crashes out asleep on the couch absolutely exhausted. It worries me. Sometimes she can't be woken to go to bed and will stay there till Saturday morning.

Complex care nursery nurse mainly looking after children on non-invasive ventilation.

@chocolate - I’m not classed as self employed. I’m an employee on a permanent contract Just like any other job but from home. Good HR and managers support.

Supply nursery assistant, through an agency. I choose the hours. It's brilliant, because there's zero paperwork, minimum responsibility and working with kids is pretty rewarding. Cons are that work is not always guaranteed and it can get pretty boring. I get paid 8.80.

Care Assitant in a private nursing home. 39 hours a week (three 12hr shifts one 6hr) slightly above minimum wage but not much. Take home roughly £1200pcm.

We do so much for not enough pay, end up working as housekeeper/cook/kitchen assistant if one of them phones sick (which is a piss take because those departments are not expected to do our jobs if we’re off sick 🤔). We also have hospital avoidance beds, which the people using them don’t pay for and yet those are the ones who generally don’t actually need the help but are awfully demanding, compared to our permanent paying residents.

Basically care assistance across the board take a lot of shit for not a lot of money....,

It is shocking how little healthcare workers and child care workers get paid, it is such important work.

One of my sisters worked as a carer in residential homes for about 25 years . She is now has in her late fifties with an absolutely wrecked spine but she did love her job. She did also struggle with the attitude of a few of the carers towards the residents so had a few arguments and made herself unpopular by reporting these staff but it was to protect the residents. One thing she would do was lay out the residents when they died. The way she described this done with the utmost respect as the last thing she could do for them. Another of my sisters worked in a laundry that was physically hard work and grubby but she was left alone to just get on with it and she is quite a quiet soul and a little timid so it suited her.

Shelf filller in supermarket on twilight shift. It's really quiet after about 7pm and satisfies my need for neatness when everything is in neat lines at the end of the night. I go in, do it, and go home again. Zero stress.

I'm a midday supervisor aka dinner lady! I really enjoy it although depends if you need full-time

Do you enjoy it Sauvignon? My daughter who’s 5 loves the dinner ladies at her school!

adversecamber22

It’s exactly like that, I’m not the most popular amongst a few because instead of reporting them, I’ll just tell them. I don’t care if they like me to be honest.

@FrontRowSeat, sorry, I had noticed that some of the the customer service agents were self employed when I Googled. That’s why I asked 🙂. I hope I didn’t offend you.

It was only afterwards when @Catrabbit75 sent a link that I saw there were the same roles under a permanent contract.

@chocolate - no it’s fine. It does sound too good to be true and I was worried I’d be classed as self employed at the beginning but it’s turned out fine. We get paid monthly, have a staff handbook, hr dept, line manager etc. It’s lovely working in my pjs Ask away if you have any questions.