Employment

I was constantly employed in many many jobs for varying lengths of time (up to around 5 years) until I was 34 years old in 2007. From 2008 onwards I've been unemployed and made my way through the unemployment system '(regime' as I've heard internal DWP staff even describe it), mental health services and now exploring Autism (including services) since I was diagnosed in November 2021. I hope to find some kind of middle ground with all of it in time in my future...

middle ground would be part time work i guess.

oh i think id love less hours.... yesterday i went in work late due to a gp appointment so i only did around 6 hours yesterday and 6 hours felt about right.... i feel 6 hours work is enough for a day and the working day should for me be 6 hours for that correct mental ballance.

ofcourse no job is ever 6 hours and everyone wants you to do over 10 per day now. 

Omg over 10 hrs!

Is that even legal? I used to feel exhausted after doing a day of school. Can't even begin to imagine what 10+ hrs is like...

I do YT videos which is starting to take off. It's good for me, no social contact and I can do it in my own time from home.

10 hours is the norm now.

when i started this job i have they forced me to do 16 hours a day, and one day one of the supervisors got in my face and shouted at me demanding i stay another hour for a 17th hour to finish things up... and yeah thats likely illegal.

but 10 hours is standard now, especially after people stupidly called for a 4 day working week.... the calls for a 4 day working week just made it so employers normalised 10 hour working days, but yet didnt cut the days to 4 kept them at 5 days... so now the norm for work is 10 hour days all thanks to people who thought it was smart to call for a 4 day working week.

Only if you agree to it.

There again in some lines / types of work if you don’t agree to it you don’t have / get any work.

Only if you agree to it.

There again in some lines / types of work if you don’t agree to it you don’t have / get any work.