I am the only employee at a production company, I've been there almost a year now. I use specialized skills to produce handmade products. My boss from the beginning has been saying over and over to “multitask”, but I don't think he understands that I already gave done that since day one. Hearing the word now makes me feel physically ill.
He has been steadily adding a ridiculous amount of work with unrealistic due dates and telling me to “multitask”, “you've got to multitask”, “just multitask”, “why aren't you multitasking”. I feel like I'm going to go insane. I can't focus on anything, keep walking into rooms and forgetting what I was doing, saying, thinking. I'm not stranger to juggling, but I'm so tired and overwhelmed that I have started making mistakes and his response to my mistakes has been to, you guessed it, tell me to “multitask”.
I get no vacation days, no sick days, and he low-key threatened to fire me for asking to sign up for health insurance (all legal in my state). I get $20/hr but in my city I'm just slowly losing money (and still don't meet the requirements for food stamps or anything). I might be living out of my car (which needs maintenance repairs I can't pay for) in two months. Unfortunately it's one of the highest paying jobs I can find around here even though I have three degrees.
I am drowning and my brain and body are falling apart. I have no idea what to do.