I'm 28, moved to Scotland from England on my own in Feb 2020 before the pandemic kicked off. I wanted to switch careers from admin into sales, started a new job in event sales (min wage + commission) and loved it, and then lockdown happened.
Everyone in the company was put on furlough so I've been living on 800 quid a month. Then had a couple of really rough months of being totally isolated in a new city, getting ghosted by a guy I really liked, financial strain, everything being shut down and not being able to meet any new people/being terrified to catch COVID if I did. I tried to make the most of it and I applied for other jobs (mostly admin) but honestly was holding out hope that I could return to this job I loved. I (yes naively) thought the pandemic would kind of blow over by now.
So October rolls around and I get let go, company has run out of money, cant pay me this months furlough. I have to dip into dwindling savings to pay rent and food. I am accepted for a temp job but it requires working from home and a strong internet connection (taking calls over wifi all day).
I cant afford to live on my own, I live in a self contained flat but I share the internet and washing machine with 6 other people (mostly students at home all day) and the internet is really slow. The agency I let through are useless and never want to fix anything, everything is the cheapest possible shite they can get away with, so they wont upgrade the internet, in fact they'd probably be happy if I left because they were advertising at reduced rent when I moved in.
I start this new job tomorrow and I feel like its just not going to work because of this slow internet issue, I'm already looking at places to move to but I have to give a months notice and things are already tight financially. I am really struggling not just with this but with the months and months of slowly being worn down into nothing. AIBU what can I do