“For me that is the worst job ever. I had to do it because I need money but if I had another choice that would never be for me. I don’t know about other people but maybe I just get the wrong people to work for but when I done, I does feel like nothing.”
These are the words of a 45-year-old mother of four who has been a domestic worker, on and off, for many years. She is not employed at present and I recently suggested that maybe that is the route she should go. Today’s column reflects her reaction to that suggestion.
“It is like some people does feel like you is a slave or something,” she told me. “If you see work dey want you to do in one day and fuh lil bit a money. And is not that only, is how them does want talk to you like if you is nobody. Right now, I rather be a guard than do domestic, it is just that I don’t want leave me two young children alone in de night.
