You have described my life before I started staying home. I had several pets,worked more than 40hrs a week ( I was the supervisor),had a baby. I told my DH while we were still in the deliver room with child #1 that I would go back to work so he could finish college,but next kid would be in approx 2yrs and I was NOT going back. 22months later I had child #2,did the 6weeks paid leave and then two more weeks not paid to just think about it. It was the most freeing thing that I have ever done,never looked back. That was the good part. The flip side of that coin was I cut our income by 2/3,Im the one that made the money at the time. We did without ALOT. I learned to pinch a penny until it screamed. There were no vacations,dinners out or throwing parties for quite a few years,but I had friends that were in the same boat and we would put our heads together and just make it work.
I am sorry that you are being worked to death. I have a son your age and he is working 40+ during the day and putting himself through college at night,he does not live under my roof.
Try to work it out with the higher ups. Take in all of your options as to wether you want to look elsewhere,,would it really be any better. As for the piercings and tats,if they are in the open it does make it a bit more difficult for you in the work place. Not everyone in the generation above you is openminded enough to see past and just see a brite young woman.
A word of wisdom from my dad "you have to decide what you are willing to give up,inorder to get what you want". I have found this to be true over and over again.
I wish you peace and blessings |