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🛑 My name is Hetal. I'm 33. I live in Birmingham, in the Sparkhill area. I rent a room. Not a flat — a room. In a terraced house with four other people. Two of them I've never even spoken to properly. We share one bathroom. There's a rota on the door. My slot is 6:15 AM. I work as a care worker. Domiciliary care — that means I go to people's homes. I wash them. I dress them. I make their tea. I help them onto the toilet. I check their medication. I write it all down in a logbook. Then I leave and drive to the next one. £11.44 an hour. National Living Wage. That's what they pay you to hold a dying woman's hand at 7 in the morning. I work through an agency. Zero-hours contract. That means I have no guaranteed shifts. Some weeks — 35 hours. Some weeks — 16. The agency decides. Not me. I don't get paid for travel between clients. I drive from Hall Green to Moseley to Acocks Green to Small Heath — sometimes 40 minutes between visits. My petrol. My time. My car. After tax and National Insurance — around £1,450 a month. On a good month. Sounds okay? It's not. Here are the expenses. Room rent: £520 (bills included, but the heating barely works and the landlord says it's "fine for the price") Council tax share: £75 (split five ways, but one housemate moved out and the landlord hasn't replaced him, so now it's split four ways) Car insurance: £110 (I need the car for work — no car, no clients, no income) Petrol: £140 (driving between calls, unpaid, every single day) Car MOT/repairs fund: £40 (my 2014 Vauxhall Corsa drinks oil and the exhaust rattles) Phone: £25 (need it for the roster app and WhatsApp — it's how the agency sends me shifts at 5 AM) Groceries: £220 (rice, lentils, frozen veg, eggs — I cook every night, same three meals on rotation) Remittance to parents in India: £150 (my father's diabetes medication isn't covered properly — they need it every month) Internet share: £12 Toiletries and medication: £15 (paracetamol, iron tablets — I'm always anaemic, always
