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How to make it through a shift at work while waiting to find a new job?

I made a post last night about a situation that occured at my job and I'm currently looking for a new one. I now have two interviews lined up for next week. In the meantime, the woman I work for (I take care of her disabled adult son) has been staying home almost every night (she used to go out to dance classes) and I'm being watched while I work. It makes the situation insanely uncomfortable for me. To make matters worse, he acts out (not sure how else to word that) when she's home. Badly. He has full on meltdowns that do not occur when it's him and I working one on one. I'm just a random internet stranger so you all have no way to know the situation. I could just be awful at my job and need to be watched. However, I don't believe that to be…


I made a post last night about a situation that occured at my job and I'm currently looking for a new one. I now have two interviews lined up for next week. In the meantime, the woman I work for (I take care of her disabled adult son) has been staying home almost every night (she used to go out to dance classes) and I'm being watched while I work. It makes the situation insanely uncomfortable for me. To make matters worse, he acts out (not sure how else to word that) when she's home. Badly. He has full on meltdowns that do not occur when it's him and I working one on one. I'm just a random internet stranger so you all have no way to know the situation. I could just be awful at my job and need to be watched. However, I don't believe that to be the case at all and feel like I'm a pretty self aware individual. The worst thing I've ever done was feed him his bedtime snack late after not realizing the time. Oh, and I stole his antidepressants. Or threw them away maybe. According to her. One time I also tried to wish him a happy birthday because I didn't know they don't ever acknowledge his birthday and let it pass every year without telling him. She says it's because he has one friend and they can't really throw him a party so he gets upset. They just pretend it's not his birthday on his birthday. If someone offered me my pay for the day for one punch in the face instead of going to work later I would take it. Unfortunately that's not how life works and I have to pay my rent. So, has anyone been in a situation where they loathed their job, and how do you deal with the mental toll it takes on you to stick around while job hunting?

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