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Linda
Linda Harrison
Linda
Linda Harrison
Feb 7, 2019

Prayer Request

Please pray for a pay rise for me. I am supporting a family of three on my own with no parents or any help. This week a colleague got a substantial pay rise with back pay. My colleague does the same job as me but claimed after 12 weeks she was entitled to a rise and back pay. She got it. She has been at my workplace 5 months - me 10 months. We do the same job. However her agency is independent but mine apparently I am told is linked to a consortium to a local borough which keeps the pay lower. Good for the school not good for the worker. Clearly the school is not being consistent hiring from outside their pool but to the detriment of people like me. I have raised this with my agency who are now seeking either through the consortium or to invoice the school directly on my behalf. Please pray out of fairness I get the same raise as my colleague. I was asked back to the school in September because the autistic boy I worked with had made such good progress. Again this January in his annual review they acknowledged he has made great progress in reading writing and now speaking and communicating but they don't want to pay me the going rate. Please pray for justice and fairness that I be paid a decent wage. Transport costs are going up but the wage is not. It costs me £45 a week to get to work. After Christmas I had to borrow money to get to work - holiday pay is low because it depends on your rate, so the borough is clearly keeping wages deliberately low. The school and borough are not playing fair. Please pray I get my raise and backpay. Thank you.

Linda
Linda Harrison
Sep 2, 2018

Prayer Request

Please pray that God has a purpose for my life and it’s not too late to find it and do something that I feel my mother could look down from heaven and feel proud. I stopped working as a medical secretary when my fingers started to get arthritis and began curling and were painful , so I turned to teaching assistant work. I qualified as a teacher 30 years ago but I was overwhelmed by the workload/preparation, poor behaviour of the schools where I worked and large classes. I am not sure what I want to do now but I have to do something and I have lost confidence in myself and so many job doors I tried over the years, lots of different jobs, God closed the doors and I don't know where I am now. I walked away from a language job I would have been good at years ago because I would have had to have moved to an area I didn't know with no support and as then a single mother I wasn't confident, I also lost an opportunity years ago to work abroad because I wasn't confident to take it up. Life has totally not gone as planned and am now in my mid 50s and unlikely to get a good pension because of changing jobs so many times over the years. I wish I had made my mother proud of me but I am running out of time. I would like to think the latter end part of my life God would help me to achieve something good or worthwhile. Make my (late) mother and daughter proud of me. I need purpose. I feel like Alice in Wonderland with God knocking on doors and trying to find the right one and though I feel I probably walked away from the right ones when I was younger I need His mercy and restoration to give me a new door/new openings now. Confidence . His Grace. That I will see some dreams come true and not be here for nothing.