#makingworkvisible

07.00

shower, breakfast, feed the birds, set off to work at about 09.15

Full time job (welfare fight worker). The organisation I work for works to combat poverty in Scotland through the provision of second tier advice. I'll spend most of the day providing advice on social security benefits and tax credits to front line workers, CAB and other welfare rights advisers, and planning training on the same, taking calls on the advice line about benefit/tax credit entitlement; looking at how the calls about individual clients can feed into our social policy work on issues such as Universal Credit and destitution amongst lone parents, people with disabilities, carers, young people, ex offenders, women escaping domestic abuse...

Myself - I'm a lot better at that than I used to be. I'm single with no kids: very privileged in terms of being able to manage/balance my time with greater freedom as a result. I made the decision not to have children because of the cost I believed would be associated with having children for women. I have never regretted this.

Phone friends, also my sister in the USA. Do my housework. I live alone so everything is kept tidy and well managed.

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