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Old Nov 02, 2010, 01:59 PM
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Thanks both of you. The local paper reports that several libraries will be closed. But we've heard nothing from senior staff officially still. They won't know until next month apparently, which is AWFUL timing for me, with the lack of emotional support over the holidays. Seeking for other work just doesn't feel an option. I don't know what I could do. I have to have specific hours to fit around my treatment appointments. And my illness effects me in a number of ways, and I have had reasonable adjustments under the DDA for my employment in my current post since formal diagnosis. I am thinking of doing some things freelance, if it comes to it. And I know my parents have said they'd help me 'bridge' financially. To get my current job, I had to go through 2 years of very frequent interviews for other jobs, which I didn't get. And I don't feel I can face anything like that again, especially now I have an official mental health 'disability'. My range of what I could do, because of the hours, is pretty limited. Plus lack of self esteem. social anxiety etc. I've done some work on my resume/CV. My ideal would be to get a regular weekend job, and do some freelance work during the times I'm free during the week, and perhaps also do some training to change career direction. But that could all be a pipe dream, especially if my depression etc suffers a severe relapse which it very likely might, with the whole issue of being made redundant. I'm in that awful inbetween situation of being well enough to work within certain parameters, but not disabled enough to count us too unwell to work and in need of benefits. Thing is, I am well enough to work where I am now, with all the support of my managers and the reasonable adjustments, and the reassurance of knowing my colleagues and the system well. But without that? Who knows.