Sitting on a sunny riverbank in the English countryside with my boyfriend, best friend and her little boy. My first day off in 2 months. I was relieved. And sick to my stomach. It was June 2014 and I was in what I thought was my Dream Job! I had over 400 teenagers flying in from all over Europe on Monday, and it was my job to find host families for them to stay with. With little to no training, no assistance, no resources and a laughable budget, I was expected to perform a miracle. Now, I know I’m magic ⚡️ but this was beyond even me. 🛌 I was running around Oxford buying beds and begging host families to take more students everyday. 🤬 I had angry parents shouting at me, telling me their precious babies couldn’t possibly stay with an Indian family. 👨🏻💼I had pressure from above to get it all done, knowing full well it wasn’t physically possible. It got SO bad that one day, when the company realised what a shit-show it was, my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss came to “support” us. When he saw me being sick in the carpark, he asked if I wanted to get some rice to soothe my stomach? 🤢 No… but a raise and about 10 extra pairs of hands would be great! No luck, so I continued my daily routine of crying in my car on the way to work and running to the loos a couple times a day as I was literally being sick with stress. My body was SCREAMING out to me!!!! 😰 I had spent my life relying on my Dad or boyfriend to help me out of difficult situations. I was utterly reliant on them. But I they couldn’t help me here. I had to get myself out of this. So I called the doctor and he signed me off work for a month. But I knew I couldn’t go back. They didn’t care about me. And for the first time in my life, I realised there was only ONE person who could care enough about me to make a change.... So I wrote my resignation letter - filled with a mixture of guilt and relief. Sitting in my car, preparing myself to give it to my boss, it really hit me: [cont in comments]👇🏼 (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByQQA3mlXNF/?igshid=1j93hi8kf4k8v
