For background: my parents are divorced/ hate each other. My father (50) has worked for the same company for 26 years. He recently switched roles to have more time to attend college. While I am proud of him, I (F 21) am also supposed to be in college. It has been a bit of a struggle to only receive help from my mother, who can’t work full time because of health issues with her leg.
I just found out from my brother the other day that my dad got fired from his job. This upsets me for multiple reasons:
1. I feel bad because he’s been with the company for 25 years.
2. I’m dealing with my own health issues right now and really needed his health insurance for any surgeries or medication.
3. He’s told me before that he’s been trying to get fired so he has more time to attend school. Now that he has, I might have to find a full time job just to receive health insurance. That means I would have to put my own college on hold.
4. My mom doesn’t have health insurance despite working in healthcare. This has caused her not to seek medical help for her bum leg which has been getting worse and worse over time. Every time I urge her to get a full time job for insurance, she changes the subject/ gets angry.
I love my parents but I can’t help but feel like my dad is being selfish right now- And my mom has ignored me for years about getting a job that provides benefits she herself would find useful.
Why do any of us have to work full time just to receive the right to be healthy?!? Human beings have made life miserable.