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Should I get a job working with COVID infected patients?
Its been 6 months since I quit my last job due to my hours being reduced. I applied for unemployment but was disqualified. I'm currently waiting on an appeal hearing. I live with my parents right now. I've been applying to tons of jobs in my field and some that aren't in my field. I'm afraid of getting infected with COVID and bringing it back to my parents. My mom is sickly. Some interviewers have told me that I would come into contact w/ COVID patients.
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If you weren't living with the parents, Id say go for it if you feel comfortable taking the risk for yourself. Since your Mom is sickly, I think you already know the answer, that it is not worth losing your mother, or dad over gaining employment. A job can be replaced, (although hard during Covid) but the parents can't be replaced, not to mention any guilt you would live with if they caught it from you. For income, you might have to get creative to bring in just a little extra for now, dog sitting if the parents allow it at their house, dog walking, if you sew real well, make custom masks for sale or anything else you could sell on ETSY.
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Your mother's health is paramount. Her coming in contact with anyone who has been sick or around those who are put her at HUGE risk. This is magnified times 10 if you are around people with COVID-19. If you're afraid of anything that's your cue to pump the breaks on this and find another job for now that's not in the medical field. When things right themselves again start looking for this kind of gig but for now don't risk her health or yours.
Think of it this way you're young and healthy and unless needing help from a hospital have no business entering a war zone which is what most are with COVID. Stay well clear of them. Why risk everything over a pay cheque? The people in the hospital ER are either sick or dying from it. If they can't gaurentee you won't come in contact with people who could develop COVID than that right there is a deal killer.
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