Lily: Episode 3: Financial Insecurity & Burnout
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In this episode, you'll hear Lucas Akai and Esther Cheung discuss a main stressor with Lily: financial insecurity. Lily discusses how financial compensation for peer workers is often not enough compensation for the extensive shiftwork, stressful working conditions, and burnout that peers face daily. Lily discusses the difficult cycle peer workers can find themselves in as they experience burnout, struggles with financial security, and access to substances. Lily questions if peer work is a sustainable career.
This episode was recorded on November 15, 2022.
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