I need to get some advice please. I don't drive. I know how to drive. I just don't drive. It's because I can't afford to keep a car on the road. It's too expensive.
My work is within walking distance of my home and I am lucky like that.
However I have some issues in work. Every day and every week is different. Sometimes I have some flexibility and then other times work can be full on and too much and too intense.
Like during the summer, I worked three weeks solid without any break and then I only got a week off because I became ill with covid. Then it was back to work again.
Every day is different. I finished up a 9 day stint on Friday and before that I was working 6 days a week for about three weeks before that.
This is taking a toll on me. For sure. It's just too much. I don't want to co tongue like this.
When your working aschedule like this, noone really understands the implications of this. My home is like a drop in centre.
It's just I spent all weekend cleaning my. I am not done yet but I got a lot of it done. I was changing my bedclothes last night and I thought this is insane. The last time I did that was in August. There was no time since then. I lived in squalor because there's no time to clean. I am now able to see parts of my bedroom floor that I haven't seen in months. I vacuumed my bedroom floor for the first time since May. I never once got a chance during the summer.
When there's only small little gaps in time, I only get a chance to catch up with things like personal hygiene and laundry and maybe the daily chores. But there was no time to provide more into a bigger clean.
It's just I got so much done over Saturday and Sunday this weekend at home.
I never want to work the way I am ever again. I know if I stay where I am stints like that is only right around the corner for me again.
I need work that will provide me with proper time off. Factory work seems appealing to me where I could clock in and clock out Monday to Friday and possibly even have a half day on Friday. With weekends off. If weekends aren't off, overtime pay will be paid appropriately. And likely it wouldn't be every weekend either.
My issue is that I don't drive and it's so daunting to get out of my comfort zone and maybe seek work that will involve a commute. A longer walk perhaps with a bus journey too.
I'm not happy where I am currently. Some times I have some nice hours and flexibility but then other times it's just too too too much.
Every time I work a stint like this that runs into weeks I get ill too.
I think if this was any other industry and I was working hours like this, I would get pain and incredible amount but because it's care work it's minimum wage.
I used to know someone working on rigs three weeks on and one week off and he can pay for his own home without a mortgage such is his income. I should be rich with the amount of hours I have worked but I am not.