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I have always worked low paying jobs with low expectations, when I work at all. When I was younger I never had steady work. I did telemarketing (would rather starve than to that again), delivered papers, did customer surveys, door to door sales….never for more than a couple of months.
I managed to keep my present job for 6 years but I was only hanging on by a thread for the last two. Started at 40 hrs/wk and ended up at 20. Stress at work and in my personal life increased dramatically, I got depressed, and I started to slip, often being as much as 20 minutes late and forgetting to do things that I needed to do. They gave me my notice a couple of weeks ago. Which didn’t make me sad because I was bored stiff and desperately wanted to get out of there anyway. Just would have preferred to do it on my own terms. But I have always been too stupid to quit before I get fired.
My plan for the next few months is to collect EI and try to get my house organized while I continue to work on getting my depression under control. Hopefully I will be ready to return to work by the time the benefits run out.
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