I am happiest when I’m keeping active and making memories with close friends and family. Being mentally strong, independent and being able to support myself is very important to me, which is why I am so excited for this journey with Beam. I am going to use this opportunity to help rebuild myself after a very difficult year and come out stronger than before.
I was made redundant from my job of 11 years during the pandemic and was left unable to pay my rent. I went from being a successful personal assistant to having lost both my job and home so suddenly. I was extremely proud of the career I had built for myself and nothing like this had ever happened before, so losing it all really affected my mental health and my confidence in myself. Trying to rebuild from scratch hasn’t been easy, but I recently moved into a shared accommodation and getting back into a stable job would be the final step in getting myself back on track.
I cannot wait to get back into work and feel a sense of purpose to get up every morning. My dream is to get back into becoming a personal assistant as I loved making people’s lives easier, but I’m looking at support worker opportunities too as I am determined to get back into work as quickly as possible. The anxiety and fear of losing everything has been hard to manage, but I feel so full of hope and optimism as I start on this new journey.