Yesterday,I started work at 7.30am and finished at 5pm, then I worked a 10pm to 7am night shift. I washed and dressed people, and cleaned up their urine,their faeces and their homes. I gave them their medication, fed them, or talked to them,held the hands of the dying, set aside flowers on the table. There are people at the care agency I work for who do this 50-60 hours a week for 7.10 an hour. I esteem my job and derive great satisfaction from it, and but one day someone will tell me they pay their cleaner £12 an hour and it will be the final straw.
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The discussion of averages (Letters,6 August) reminds me of the unhappy tale of the statistician who drowned in a lake with an average depth of six inches.
Jonathan Barton
BrightonContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com