Day Off

 A few weeks ago, I applied at a caregiving company that was basically a start up at the time. It was disappointing, because she hired me, did onboarding, and then told me she didn’t have anything for me to do. So I forgot about it, went to work at that shitty ABA place, only lasted into my second week or so, and then started with this caregiving company that was reluctant to hire me because of my location and the distance. But they are only scheduling me 15 hours a week, and I was not worried about that. These places have constant crises and are always calling you to work extra. And they did ask me to work one extra shift for someone else- but the one doing it most often is now the lady with the start up company. She did some marketing I guess. She’s also having a lot of emergencies. There is a lot of last minute stuff that, if you agree to work last minute, she’ll give you a gift card of $25, $50 or $75, depending I guess on the severity of the situation. I got a $50 gift card from her for working Sunday night for her. I relieved another caregiver at 7:00 pm, who in turn came back to relieve me at 7:00 am. This lady said her Amazon gift card balance is now over $500. She’s waiting until it reaches “enough for a she-shed.”  That’s a good idea! Because of this night shift, I worked about 24 hours straight. I worked 2-6 pm for the other company, then 7pm-7am with the start up, then 9-2 with the original company again. It was totally fine, because I have not been sleeping well at all. I will be up anyway without melatonin, and sleeping with vivid nightmares if I do take melatonin. I came home and slept about 12 hours with no nightmares. Maybe working 24 hours is the trick to getting peaceful sleep. I did, however, feel like dry heaving on the final drive home in the afternoon. I didn’t dry heave, though. 

The lady with the start up then asked when I can work with a married couple, and there’s a pretty awesome shift differential for working with a couple instead of a single person. I told her I am off Tuesday and Friday from that other company (and weekends) so she scheduled me Tuesday, Friday and Sunday with the couple. I’m now holding off on telling her any more with the hopes of more gift cards for last minute stuff. 

Today I’m off and resting up. so far i have Saturday off, but keeping it open in case she has another emergency last minute thing. I think what happened with her, is that she hired a bunch of people and then had nothing for them  then they all moved on to other things.  Those other things probably offered more than 15 hours a week like my other thing, so I’m one of the ones telling her yes more often.  

I’m looking forward to getting nice checks again.