| zuvuyeay said: so why can you not take any job that there is on offer?you have a roof over your head,food,internet access,car, right? you are living with parents,are they house owners,i admit i do not fully know your situation but i have seen your threads over the years first off you have to get out of the negative mind mentality it sounds cliche and easier said than done but you do seem to have an excuse or reason for not doing,like heavy lifting for example,now i am not saying this is the case but you need to concentrate on what you can do not what you can't do,if your situation is that serious and you are falling through the cracks like i say i do not quite understand your whole situation or where you indeed live in america but there surely must be jobs to do,however undeisrable they might be if that is your way out for you,working,but i do not fully know the usa welfare system and what benefits you have/entitled,but it sounds like you do not have a flat/house is it a question of you just needing a job or are things more complicated than that |
My situation is more than just needing a job, period. There is a case of needing a job that pays enough to be on my own. The situation I am in is not sustainable and i need to get out. Add in other factors, and I am looking to slip through the cracks here, deciding whether to hit rock bottom now or later. In short, lose most of my stuff, end up fully on public assistance, and hoping maybe in 5 years I can get back to where I am. Do I take the hit now, or later? Retail-wise, the bulk of the jobs there are out if requiring lifting. I would look to push cashier maybe in that. Technically, I am not really in a place where i could get hired, due to being out of things too long. Phone support from home is also out. This environment costs of one parent who has yelling breakouts throughout the day, can't control himself, and uses death threats in language to communicate.
Pretty much, unless things break, I am likely to jump into the social safety net and hope it holds, not caring what idiots on the internet say who end up calling people who end up there bad names. Out of this comes a question, based on this: If you know of this going on, what exactly could you personally do to prevent it from happening? And with this, on a personal level, I would end up saying that consider this post a good bye, if I end up dropping off here.
I will end up saying I understand where Craig T Nelson is coming from. There doesn't seem anyone who will help prevent you from slipping or give you a hand up. Maybe if you have family, you get that, but the system just keeps people on life support. It really isn't help. Pretty much the public assistance kept him alive, but did anyone actually get him anywhere to where he is? He likely had to do it alone.
This is the interview here, which has what I wrote about above, plus also what has been framed as people who do get government help, not apparently thinking they get any help from the government:
