My name is Jen, I am 19 and yeah I work and I study.
My first job was working with my family business. We worked for a good amount of time about 10, 11 years
and yeah it was pretty fun, but then like covid happened.
When I kind of realized that you know it was kind of the end of the business my first thought was...
Money. How are we going to have like money to like keep our house keep everyone,
like am I going to have to put off Uni, so I can go and get a full-time job, so I can just provide.
Because I don't want to see my dad stressing,
it broke my heart to see him stressing the way he was.
I didn't really talk to anyone during that time about what was going on like with me,
I kind of tended to just keep it to myself.
Like... I’m a prideful person I... take pride in myself and I don't like to admit when I need help.
We were just overwhelmed by the love and the support... and then also my friends as well.
Because they know that I’m a prideful person.
So they were kind of just able to see that things were actually wrong and kind of not let me play
it off the way I usually do, just helping me to acknowledge it and then work through it, yeah.
It's kind of hard to say what the future holds...
But...My Dad and my brother, all of us thankfully we all have jobs again,
we're all working and we seem to be doing quite well, yeah.
My advice to anyone who finds themself in the same situation or have lost their job due
to covid or anything like that would just be a take time for yourself allow yourself to process
and just feel what you feel, like it's valid and it's okay.