I recently started a new job and I'm lucky I can work from home. My coworker works from home as well. We work together almost exclusively. We work in Family Law. She is an Attorney and I am a Law Graduate (graduated from law school but haven't passed the bar so somewhere inbetween a Paralegal/Lawyer limbo).
Good or bad; however you choose to look at it, apparently marriages that are already on shaky ground don't fair so well when you are forced to spend 24/7 almost 365 now in what one could describes as solitary confinement. Needless to say, her and I have job security. It also doesn't hurt that we work for one of the top Family Law law firms in a major US city.
These past couple weeks have been balls to wall busy. So busy I tune out the whole world. Luckily I have a boyfriend who is currently looking for work and home. He will check in and ask if I need water or a coke, he's learned the faint difference between my uh and uhh to distinguish yes or no and will put food in front of me around lunch time and sometimes dinner time. If not for him I'd probably be a dehydrated anorexic. When I finish my day I feel completely and utterly exhausted to the point of where I don't want to clean, I don't want to cook, I just want to flop and watch TV or in some cases go to bed.
That's where my coworker comes in. When I feel like I don't have the energy to empty the dishwasher or do a load of laundry I think of my coworker. She is currently raising a 13 year old boy 100% by herself, who is also at home due to COVID and doing Zoom schooling, but on top of that she is also taking care of her 88 year old mother who has dementia, diabetes and early on-set Parkinson's. Because of COVID she asked her mother's healthcare nurse to stop coming because she was concerned of exposure of COVID to her mother from the healthcare nurse being a front line worker and working with other potentially infected individuals. So she is working a job that is easily 50+ hours a week, taking care of a young teenage boy who is at home full time with zoom schooling and taking care of her elderly mother with healthcare issues.
Anytime I feel I tired or unmotivated I think of her and everything she is doing and that she still manages to give everything 100% despite being sleep deprived. With no "me" time -- there are no weekends for her. If she, who is 25 years older than me, can do what she does I think I can handle some dishes, or laundry or dinner or evening cleaning -- or shit all of it.
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