Sorry about the length!
Let me start out by saying, I have always loved my job. I mean, the work itself has always been enjoyable to me. I started out making minimum wage, which was fine because it was just supplemental income and the work was ridiculously easy. This past December, my coworkers and I got a 75 cent raise (so I now make 75 cents over minimum wage). I'm pretty sure my boss did this bc he created a new position and gave it to a family member who is making much more than any one else. He had offered us additional hours but that was rescinded when said family member was hired. But I digress, my company recently purchased another company and we (actually, pretty much just me) are now making an entirely new product. It is much more complicated and took me a month in training to get the basics down. It is nothing like the work I was doing before. This is when things started (continued? I was/am pretty pissed about the blatant nepotism) to go downhill. I was already getting frustrated about my wage being the same although I'm doing much more difficult work when it got worse. The previous owner (who was there to train us) of the business my company purchased was constantly breathing down my neck and hovering over me all day. He would literally just stand in my doorway and stare at me while I worked. I just figured he was bored and wanted someone to talk to. But then he got really inappropriate one day and started asking me all kinds of extremely explicit questions about my sex life and my partner's body parts (we are a queer couple). I got extremely uncomfortable and told one of my bosses. I then went home bc I was so uncomfortable being there with him (and I set my own schedule, so I made up the hours later). My boss talked to him but that's it. She offered to be a buffer between us but wasn't even there when I went back to work. So I had to keep working with this creep for another week. Then, one day, I see an invoice for almost 20k and casually mentioned “damn, and I make so-and-so an hour”. Above mentioned family member heard me and told me to remember that my boss has loans he's still paying, which just pissed me off even more, considering it came from the only guy there who doesn't make $13.50/hour. The resentment has been building and building for months now and I feel frustrated every day. To cap it all off, I heard my boss talking to someone else about hiring a new employee. So dude can't afford to pay a living wage to any of his employees that have worked there since he acquired the company because he has loans, but he can hire a whole new person? Bull. Shit.
Sorry for the length, I've been thinking about posting here for months but I've been brainwashed by capitalism and part of me felt like I was just being entitled. Also, my job does have certain perks like being able to set my own schedule along with some other things that make child care much easier for me.
I REALLY need to find a new job. We really need the money so I can't just quit. But I do have several restrictions on the hours I am able to work. Does anyone have any work from home resources they can share with me? Thank you for taking the time to read this! I would appreciate any advice anyone can offer me.