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A Sad First

I had my first end of a life moment at work earlier. Those I worked with were amazing. After that, we just carry on as normal Not the best of times to be moving from a late shift to an early as I've not wanted to sleep yet, I have to be again in 6 hours.

Caring can be S*** work

Today I can honestly say I have never before been covered in so much poo! It was everywhere and anywhere. A simply helping out of someone seemed to have the inevitable poo outcome but, these are the joys of minimum wage jobs. It is a mystery to me how jobs like this with such a huge personal level of responsibility and, a huge amount of poo, can possibly get paid so little when other far easier and cosier jobs get paid loads. None of this is helped by it costing me around £2000 a year to get too and from work which means I work for an hour a day just to get there and back! Totally bonkers! Don't get me wrong, I love my job, it's just perfect apart from the location and the salary. After all, we cannot just forget that the reason we work is to earn a living, the best we can, it matters. If something goes wrong with the car I am screwed, I cannot get to work and that's not acceptable in any way. So, sadly, I either get a pay rise to cover the costs which will also help me buy...