No, I don't get 'sick' days or vacation time as it is considered contract work. However the chickens are going out in October after I did some looking around on the paperwork. They will probably get more in during December so that might be some (unpaid) time off. The only way I would get time off now is if I were direly ill to the point that I could not walk or stand for very long or if something catastrophic happened. I don't want either option. I'd rather work 6-days a week before I became direly ill or faced some catastrophic event that caused the loss of an entire flock. If we lose the flock, we lose the income, which means no job for me. They lost their flock once during a power outage and the entire house got too hot. 90% of the chickens over heated and died. They were out of chickens for 6 months. My aunt had to take on two full-time jobs as well as her husband having to continue taking care of the other animals on the farm as well as also taking on an additional full-time job. That was just to keep them afloat until they were able to get a new flock of chickens.
I am seriously considering just dropping everything in October when the chickens go out and re-enroll into Uni full-time under student loans. I'm tired of bouncing from job to job hoping I'll stay on long enough to finish school but nothing works out long enough. I think if I had that degree in my hand, people might take me more seriously for better positions. Right now I stand only 14 credits away from an Associates, but I still want to complete my Bachelor's. I don't know of many employers that even recognize an Associates Degree as anything. If I had that I *might* find secretarial work or as a bank teller or something like that. But I know it definitely won't be in this town. I'd have to work out of town as no one here is willing to give me a chance despite them knowing me as a good ol' gal. I dunno. I don't take any relationships I have very seriously because of this.
Frankly I think I'm just burned out in general as nothing is working out. I'm stuck and I need something to unstick me.
And I made some phone calls about trying to find a trainer for a new poodle I may be getting! It is a brown female poodle names Flossie! I hate that name! She is one year old.
