COMING HOME - AND WHY I NEED HELP
Happier days. A few years after Paul's accident. I’D like to explain why I need help for anyone who may think I have been living on the Costa del Sol or something similar. I haven’t. I have been working (in a town just outside of Murcia city) and living in what can only be described as awful circumstances for a few years now. The first year here I had a contract so things were okay. But then I had to find alternative work - I teach ESL - and the only work going was with an academy where I couldn’t get a contract, so am just paid by the hour and as I’m classed as self-employed I pay my own Social Security which, after the first year when you pay about 80€ a month no matter what you earn, has gone up to 316€ a month which is almost half my wages. I get 8€ an hour and do not get sick pay or holiday pay even when the academy (as all academies here do) closes down in summer. It wasn’t too bad when I had some extra work and was doing 52 hours a week, but that has been cut an