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Originally Posted by EddyTheDog
Ignore me I am going to have a a rant.....
Every time someone in my family is ill I get lumbered going to look after them - Because I was a nurse its become 'my duty'....
I was just getting some good work done and now I have to go to Southend and look after a sick uncle.
Last time he was sick I was there for a fucking month.
FUCK FUCK FUCK
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Because I work as a WM (adult and mainstream) and my family doesn't think I have "a real 9-5 job", and because I can work from my laptop, I get called upon to pull family duty, too. Petsitting, housesitting during vacays, post-surgery care (most recently knee replacement surgery and before that a sister who had multiple fractures after a bad horsebackriding fall). Not that I begrudge being a good sister, daughter, cousin, etc. , but I feel like I get taken advantage of as it sounds like you do, too. Maybe I shouldn't complain? Maybe it's the American culture (or you're in UK?) where we don't feel the level of devotion to family in the same way that other cultures do? But it's always me who gets the call to water the plants, scoop the shitboxes and empty the potty chair piss pots.