My dream is to have a stable home and job, so that I can look after and care for my daughter without having to worry about where we are going to live or how I am going to pay rent. Just a simple life is all I can ask for, where we can enjoy day to day and not worry. Health, happiness and security, the basic things, are all we need.
I have worked hard over the past few years building a career in the hospitality industry, but the instability of zero hours contracts makes it hard to provide a safe home for me and my daughter. Working with Beam, I am hopefully that I can get a stable job doing what I love. Talking to people, interacting with them, making sure they are happy with the service they receive, these are all things I enjoy. And when people appreciate and recognise you and your work it is very rewarding.
Outside of work, spending time with my daughter and seeing her happy, seeing her enjoy life, brings me joy. It's not about me anymore now that I have her. If she's happy, I am happy.
Knowing that people want to support me, and therefore my family, to be honest it’s amazing because. They don’t know me, they have never met me, they don’t know my story. Yet they have a kindness of their heart, to give me a pound, even a penny, the gesture alone I cannot thank them enough for. From the bottom of my heart I want to thank them. It is amazing, really heart warming, to see how kind people are.