(Nothing to do with COVID)
DDog is nearly 9 and I've worked almost exclusively from home for 20+ years, during which time I was also married and Ex-H was mostly retired. But since splitting from ex it's been difficult to make sure he's not left alone. On rare days I do go into the office I do a shortish day and he has a dog walker at lunchtime; I don't really like leaving him at all (currently living in a flat so no garden) but if I go out I do the maximum 4-5 hours thing. Still hate leaving him though.
Now life has taken a crap turn and I am facing redundancy - I am mid-60s and struggle with any tech so I am worried about getting another office job where I can work from home; my job is quite specialist, I am not very good at it anyway and as time has gone on technology has overtaken me. So I might end up just taking a supermarket job or something (still have mortgage).
So sad that DDog might have to endure 5 days a week home alone 8-6. Obvs life is now in turmoil with the threat of redundancy but this element of it, worry about leaving the dog, I know I won't get any sympathy for - no point in posting elsewhere on MN, and most people in RL are either aghast I still have a mortgage, thinking I should just move to a cheaper area, or that I should have foreseen this and stayed with Ex-h! I don't think there is a solution other than of course, attempt to get a wfh job but at my age and my skills not up to date I think it's going to be a massive struggle. Oh and I have ADHD so I don't learn new things very well.
Bugger!