Full Time Care

Well, so much for Interview Day. We were awake really early so that we’d have time for my partner to do a bit of final revision before heading off - not an easy thing for me this morning, as I was up til about 1:30 last night. The connection kept yo-yoing and I couldn’t get hold of a phone number to ask about some possible jobs, so I was stuck in front of the PC ’til it worked properly.

Anyhow, after a bit of a chat, my lady stated that she wasn’t really interested in this job, because it won’t make anything better. Since I’m not working now, any money she earns will basically reduce the amount of help we get from the government, so we’d actually be worse off. It’s simply not worth putting in hours of work for that. I had to agree, really - although the secondary effects are good (to be out working, socially active and so on), it hardly seems to make sense to pay train fares just so we can have less money.

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