I was sick last summer and had to leave my second job (providing companionship care for the elderly). So things have been pretty tight financially, but I was able to be home with my daughter more and I can see the benefit of that, and of course I LIKE being home, so we’ve muddled through.
A couple months ago, I started cleaning and helping out a retired man (not much older than me) who is in kidney failure and on dialysis. Things have progressed and it’s morphed into a whole new role for me: In a few weeks I’ll start training to be his “dialysis partner” so that he can do overnight dialysis in his home. I’ll be responsible for getting him onto the machine every night and unhooking it every morning.
He’s been unable to do home dialysis due to some issues with his fine motor control–can’t manage the fiddly stuff that needs to be done, has trouble preventing contamination, etc. He had the overnight unit in the hospital and loved it, though, so we have high hopes.
I’m nervous and excited. It’ll be sure to be a pain in the ass sometimes (what job isn’t?), but it works with my schedule and if all goes well, it will make a tremendous quality-of-life improvement for this nice gentleman.
Karma AND a paycheck. Can’t beat that!
I’d say that’s pretty rare.
Congrats!
Go for it and enjoy it…
That’s pretty awesome. A win-win, as “they” say!