I work for one of the biggest banks in the country as a QA Tester with 18 years testing and analyzing experience. I’ve been here 9 years and have been 100% remote for 7 of them. Never been written up or asked for much, just kept my head down and worked. I was recently told that in a month I’ll be expected to be in office from now on after being told the new policies wouldn’t apply to me since I was remote before the pandemic.
In the last 4 years my pay has increased .54 an hour and this year I wasn’t even given an increase. I didn’t complain tho! Just happy to have a job I liked that allowed me, a single mom if 3 under 11, to be able to avoid daycare costs, feed my kids, and live in a decent neighborhood. To be fair, I should have demanded a raise a long time ago because my pay is about 30% below market value but I didn’t because it was easier than changing a job mid divorce, mid pandemic, mid my father dying, etc.
Now that they’re requiring me to come back to the office, I’ll have to find daycare for my kids, which will be around $1200 a month min, quadruple my gas budget, and buy a new wardrobe. I already pretty much live paycheck to paycheck so this will force me to completely upend me and my kids lives and force me into debt.
Work was the one stable thing these last 3 years but fuck this, I’m done. The stress of it is starting to affect my health and my kids see it.
I have no idea how to write a modern resume. Are there any suggestions you may have for sites or services? Needs to be free or very cheap.