This topic touches me deeply, Galen, and that is why I enter into it with infinite respect and humility. It's just that I feel that it's not me, first of all what I thought it was, now it's not, and I don't always like what I see to be able to understand this labor process of reconstruction that goes through several filters.

Since I was fired (oil strike) among the 20,000 workers of the 35,000 in the first state of the country in national television with name and surname in the year 2003 just for thinking differently.

After that, I became a diaspora within my country because of the job persecution.

I have spent the last 23 years between layoffs, telecommuting, loss of retirement funds, investments, living up to date, very serious illnesses, and it has brought an intense emotional movement which has moved to the fear of not having the resources to get through all these years

It became too hard a challenge to support myself and my husband because since then we have been living totally up to date and without state support.

We have lost our savings, benefits from more than 35 years of work, and at some points we have had the resources, but they are very limited.

So I feel working within my country with many duties and no rights for a job consonant with my dreams, and for what I had to prepare throughout my life with education, moral values, ethics academic training in order to improve my well-being, quality of life and to understand uncertainty as a process.

Any condition of inequality prevents us from full growth, healthy adaptation, the projection of a future.

Labor exploitation, non-compliance with the rules of the country where I was born, live, doing "whatever and however" makes us part and accomplices of inequality and, consequently, of the impossibility of a fuller and more humanized life.

I live in a country that does not legitimize our human rights to work, with their actions, they create the walls that separate us.

Under the labor law, we should all be equal.

Labor rights are not protected by making us citizens defenseless against the abuses of power. The censorship corrupts, the country panorama is full of complaints about abuses and job dismissals, just for thinking differently. Complaints that do not materialize because of fear and even though the right to life, to work in any field are typified in our constitution and should be safeguarded, every day they are curtailed.

This is just one example of thousands of irregularities in each workplace, in this country. Now it is worse, there is not even a public complaint against the current government because of fear.

The current complaint in the street protests is about miserable salaries and wages, among other things. No one does it because the endemic corruption that is too rampant, they are only interested in their own money, I feel so frustrated that I can't do anything but just hope to make the change with my vote in 2024, maybe is questioned.

And it is at that moment that you change your work and professional perspective, and you begin to see your problems as challenges, it is the moment when you begin to train your brain to detect new opportunities and not die trying.

Among my prospects in the short term, I start by reminding everyone who reads me that…

Tomorrow is Monday, May 1st, international worker day, and I'm going to the streets to protest with my people, for a decent work, wages and salaries, contractual benefits, social security, in short I'm going to raise my voice, it's my duty and my right.

No matter what is happening around me or what I consider to be unfair, every day I can focus on being positive, on working hard, striving to maintain balance with self-care in this work crisis and make those around me feel better.

If I do this, great things can happen in my life...

The challenge of adapting to fear, uncertainty, going through a whirlwind of emotions such as indignation, anger, frustration, impotence, sadness and the titanic effort have made me rebuild this new learning path being resilient to move on to the acceptance of that which I cannot change, but without resigning, nor isolate myself, the worst obstacle of resilience, thanks to the courage to dare to walk paths that few have traveled before.

We (my husband and me) are confident in our ability to sustain ourselves, and we know that our task at the moment is to preserve ourselves.