I make just double the US federal minimum wage, but I only work about 20 hours a week at a small business. I'm 23 and recently moved back to live at home with my parents, after having tried and failed to get a degree in engineering.
At my work, I asked for more responsibility because I'm one of the people who's worked there the longest, and I know how everything works. I guess I thought I could help new hires with training and wanted to see what (low level) management was like. My boss gave me a $2 an hour raise after I took on some of these responsibilities. However, I've discovered I don't like the responsibility, and I am allowed to schedule myself more time on the clock to do these responsibilities, but I never feel like doing it because I don't have the external motivation of someone else checking on me. Another factor is the drive, it used to be a 20 minute drive to work when I was at university, but since I've moved back home to live with my parents, it's now 50 minutes to drive to work and I hate sitting in the car driving to work when I could be sleeping.
Anyways, I called in sick almost two weeks ago because I was depressed and wanted to go back to sleep after sleeping all night, and the next day I was supposed to work my boss called me and I told him I was still too sick. The day after that I was scheduled to work I actually went in, but left early because we were overstaffed so I made up some bs about having a migraine because I didn't want to be there. My boss is pretty understanding, but it's now been a week since the day I showed up and left early, and he wants me to call him today. What do I say? “Sorry, I was depressed and couldn't get out of bed except to pee and eat microwaved food for a week”? My boss does employ some remote workers, I'm not sure if he needs any more, but I'm thinking about asking for a remote position or to be mostly remote and only go in person occasionally.