I'm a college student who had to take a semester off to take care of my mother who was suffering from medical issues. I didn't want to take off a semester, but to preserve my mental health and care for her at my best, I needed to.
Now that word has gotten out that I took a semester off, I'm being told left and right by my family that I need to go find a job. My mother and I had an agreement when I started college, which was I didn't have to work until I graduated. I'm literally 2 semesters shy of graduating.
I've been under an incredible amount of stress this past month due to a cariety of factors other than my mother's medical complications. About two weeks ago, I about lost my father in law due to an internal bleed in his colon. My mother has also been needing 24/7 attention. My family has also been giving me their two cents on how to carw for her, but they are extremely over bearing.
Now I'm being told to go get a job, and this makes me extremely anxious. I've worked entry-level jobs before. Cashier, cook, and fast food. I know all to well what the work industry for entry-level job positions are like to their employees. Awful and abusive. I started college so I could obtain a job that will treat me somewhat better than what entry-level jobs do. I feel like I'm being pushed right back tk square one. It is making me feel literally sick to my stomach knowing I have to go into it again. I'm already ate up with stress and anxiety from how this month has gone, and I don't think I can handle a new job on top of it, knowing I'll be exploited, abused, and treated like dog shite. I also have every intention of going back to college once fall rolls around if my mother has became stable by then. If I can't get my mental health back on a good track, I'm afraid for myself.
I don't want to do this again. I've worked so hard not to go back. It isn't even my fault. I don't want to go back to abuse.