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Working Holiday Pregnant

Working Holiday Pregnant

Park, Mocha

Paperback

Adventurers & ExplorersBiographies General

ISBN13: 9798191736693
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 9 2026
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
I was nine weeks pregnant when I boarded the plane to Vancouver, alone.

The listing had promised meals, forty hours, and a fair boss. My first paycheck came to $943. Rent was $950. I did the math on a closing shift, somewhere between the bathroom and the pizza boxes.

The visa tied me to exactly one workplace, and the workplace knew it. A coworker decided the pregnant new hire wanted special treatment. I stopped waiting for things to be fair. The staff started calling me the honey badger. I took it as a job title.

Mid-year, I applied for a second visa nobody thought I would get. Thirteen days later I was out: working from home as a medical interpreter, carrying other people's worst phone calls in two languages. Then my water broke early, and I met the famously bad Canadian healthcare system from the inside. An emergency C-section. A six-hour ER wait, one week post-surgery. A hospital bill that, mercifully, charged me for a single day.

The baby was fine. Almost nothing went the way I wanted. This book is the whole year, with the numbers left in.

For readers of Maid and Crying in H Mart.

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