I’m way over qualified to be washing dishes for a living. Unfortunately I had a motorcycle accident just before the pandemic which left me with epilepsy. My body is pretty wrecked so I can’t over work myself. I can’t do an awful lot of stuff I am trained and experienced to do. I can’t even drive which limits me massively due to my location. I’ve got 2 cats so I’m pretty settled in a small sleepy town just getting by.

Cost of everything thing is going up and my paycheques aren’t getting any better. I got less money this month than I used to earn in a week before my accident. And that includes the disability benefits I get. A whole month of my labour and all I’ve got to show for it is… being alive? I will be living off credit cards by the end of the month.

It’s very hard to know where to go from here because my options are very limited. I don’t want to work myself into a cripple just for the sake of staying alive. Seems counterintuitive.