I’ve been largely anti work for a minute, but benefit from a retail job with good pay and benefits that assist me with treating chronic illnesses.
I’ve recently had a lot of life stressors and flare ups of physical and mental health issues. So a manager helped me get the ball rolling for getting short term disability. I have 7-9 appointments per week for the next month or so for more intensive treatments and still manage to work full time.
But the job has been the cause of some of my flare ups lately. I’ve had friends suddenly come down with acute life threatening situations and been owed back pay from 10 weeks of checks. So I’m weary to continue that process and want to try and thug it out.
Today I just had to call out not because I feel sick, per say, but just because I’ve allowed the vitriol and discontentment build to the point where I’m sickened by the idea that I might be trapped in this state of working a job that is wearing on me physically and mentally, but is allowing me to get some vital help with my quality of life.
Ah I just realized this is probably one of those flare ups. I should probably just use my last sick day and try to build them back.
I have 10 sick hours in my PTO.
Enough for a day and a couple hours.
Does anyone else have a similar issue rn?
I know I didn’t share a lot of details for anonymity’s sake, but Im truly curious and receptive to anyone that wants to share.