• flicker@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    God I wish I could abandon my job for a better one but there’s no one out here caring for these people and if I leave it’ll be 300% harder for those I leave behind.

    I wish there was good advice for people like me but “don’t have a heart” will never work. I’m going to wind up working caring for adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities for pennies until one of them dies and I can’t take it anymore, and I pray by then I’ll still be young enough to find a job that can pay me enough to survive on in my old age.

        • Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          Yeah. My sister and I once talked about how nurses could strike without negatively affecting their patients, and we couldn’t come up with anything. Then again, neither of us had spent much time trying to find a solution, so there migh be one, it’s just that I don’t know it.

          • pugsnroses77@sh.itjust.works
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            1 year ago

            i heard about one strike somewhere where nurses kept providing care but just stopped doing the insurance paperwork or whatever, so the hospitals and insurance companies stopped receiving money. idk if theres legal consequences or how that ended for them but its an idea.

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      1 year ago

      As a parent of a child with developmental delays, I can’t thank you enough for what you do. Also caregiver fatigue/burnout is a real thing. Please be sure to take care of yourself.