The Coronavirus has exposed how willing Americans are to be slave to their jobs.

Not me - I left nursing March 16th when lockdown hit because I complained formally about a lack of PPE or standard precautions. I was let go for being a “Trouble Maker” to expect anyone to look out for our personal welfare. They did not like the “formal complaint” I submitted. We were told that the virus was just the flu and we needed to be exposed to it and get over it. No thanks! I honestly think I had it it from a patient already by then, as I work with many internationals and was deathly sick with an unknown non-flu event that had my o2 Sats in the 80’s and was sent to the ER. I’m not willing to be exposed again, it was hell. I am going to live off savings for another year or so and opening a bakery from home to pay basic bills. I dod at first miss the high pay and luxury life of travel and fancy things, but I actually changed and enjoy my simple life more now. It’s a stress free calm life hanging out on Reddit and YouTube and baking a cake when I feel like it. I am so glad though that I did get to experience travel and eating out so much before the poop hit the fan. I didn’t hold back on having fun the last years before the world changed, I don’t see that world coming back again soon, next chapter. No longer depending on outside external experiences to make me happy but finding internal sources of creativity and calm to being happiness and getting to place value on my life intact, well, and healthy.

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