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This is not true. Some homeless people have no money. Others have a social security check and nothing else or a military retirement check and nothing else. Some

by Mz 9y ago

This is not true. Some homeless people have no money. Others have a social security check and nothing else or a military retirement check and nothing else. Some even have jobs. For people like me, if we could find a decent (not hell hole) place for $200, that would absolutely get us off the street. I could afford about $400 a month in the near future. I am trying to find a way to get off the street now that my student loan is paid off and that frees up enough money where I could afford that much for shelter in the near future.

nobody64 9y ago
As the saying goes, “Insanity is repeating the same experiment over and over again, and expecting a different result.” Respectfully, I don’t think you can attain a middle class income in CA by blogging. I pay $15/month for a New York Times subscription – and the NYT is still struggling. As for your resume service, again respectfully, you don’t even provide your own resume (or even a URL to a LinkedIn profile) with your qualifications and education to prospective customers. Instead, you provide a rambling personal account as the basis for why people should hire you. If I did that to a prospective employer, my email would probably get flagged as spam and deleted. Either you, or one of your sons (preferably all 3) needs to get a part-time job. Skimming your blog, you appear well enough to eat at McDonalds, Taco Bell, Starbucks and Dominos Pizza. Why not get a part-time job at one of them? You could probably score free meals, too. More importantly, it would build your (or your son’s) paystub history. Landlords and banks like to see a stable employment income. In essence, you are already doing something that many employers like to see – showing up at the same place (the library) at approximately the same time, every day. Yet, you are getting no credit for this level of accountability. You’ve mentioned that your income is trending upward. Unfortunately, “trending upward” is not enough for most landlords and banks. If you want the path of least resistance, your family needs to establish a regular, incoming paycheck. Look, you've been on this path for 5.5 years. Maybe it's time to consider other ideas.
- dang 9y ago
  Since you used the word respectful I'll assume that your intent was respectful, but please don't post comments like this to HN. Unsolicited personal commentary or life advice quickly crosses into incivility. Your comment is way into the red on that. Even if you don't mean such comments as personal attacks, they easily read like it—because of the underlying assumption that you know better about someone else's life than they do—and will almost certainly will land that way with the person(s) whose life you're prescribing. That's bad and leads to worse, so we should all just not do it.
nickthemagicman 9y ago
Not trying to be critical or anything just curious. Why not get like a Van with a 300 dollar note? At least you have shelter and can park near city services.
- Mz 9y ago
  I'm sure you mean well, but one-off comments from internet strangers are not going to solve my problems. I am solving them. It is just much slower than I would like. I did not comment on my situation in order to solicit advice. I did so in order to make it clear what the basis of my opinions are.
  - nickthemagicman 9y ago
    No man I hear you about the homeless who have potential like yourself. Homelessness is a huge trap. I mean I feel like simply providing showers and some sort of basic amenities to help the homeless who are trying to work their way out of it would help enourmously. But these homeless programs that just keep the homeless subsisting are better than nothing but sill aren't helping the ones who could escape.
    - Mz 9y ago
      I only went to homeless services when I was truly destitute for basically the first six months. If I can find another solution, I do. Most homeless services are incredibly crappy and often counterproductive.
      - nickthemagicman 9y ago
        I'm with you. I've been homeless before. I would never use a shelter. But if there had been free showers I would have used them lol. I had to use the shower bus riding around SF. Also, if there had been free toothpaste and soap that would have been nice.
        Mz 9y ago

by Mz 9y ago

nobody64 9y ago

As the saying goes, “Insanity is repeating the same experiment over and over again, and expecting a different result.” Respectfully, I don’t think you can attain a middle class income in CA by blogging. I pay $15/month for a New York Times subscription – and the NYT is still struggling. As for your resume service, again respectfully, you don’t even provide your own resume (or even a URL to a LinkedIn profile) with your qualifications and education to prospective customers. Instead, you provide a rambling personal account as the basis for why people should hire you. If I did that to a prospective employer, my email would probably get flagged as spam and deleted. Either you, or one of your sons (preferably all 3) needs to get a part-time job. Skimming your blog, you appear well enough to eat at McDonalds, Taco Bell, Starbucks and Dominos Pizza. Why not get a part-time job at one of them? You could probably score free meals, too. More importantly, it would build your (or your son’s) paystub history. Landlords and banks like to see a stable employment income. In essence, you are already doing something that many employers like to see – showing up at the same place (the library) at approximately the same time, every day. Yet, you are getting no credit for this level of accountability. You’ve mentioned that your income is trending upward. Unfortunately, “trending upward” is not enough for most landlords and banks. If you want the path of least resistance, your family needs to establish a regular, incoming paycheck. Look, you've been on this path for 5.5 years. Maybe it's time to consider other ideas.

dang 9y ago
Since you used the word respectful I'll assume that your intent was respectful, but please don't post comments like this to HN. Unsolicited personal commentary or life advice quickly crosses into incivility. Your comment is way into the red on that. Even if you don't mean such comments as personal attacks, they easily read like it—because of the underlying assumption that you know better about someone else's life than they do—and will almost certainly will land that way with the person(s) whose life you're prescribing. That's bad and leads to worse, so we should all just not do it.

nickthemagicman 9y ago

Not trying to be critical or anything just curious. Why not get like a Van with a 300 dollar note? At least you have shelter and can park near city services.

Mz 9y ago
I'm sure you mean well, but one-off comments from internet strangers are not going to solve my problems. I am solving them. It is just much slower than I would like. I did not comment on my situation in order to solicit advice. I did so in order to make it clear what the basis of my opinions are.
- nickthemagicman 9y ago
  No man I hear you about the homeless who have potential like yourself. Homelessness is a huge trap. I mean I feel like simply providing showers and some sort of basic amenities to help the homeless who are trying to work their way out of it would help enourmously. But these homeless programs that just keep the homeless subsisting are better than nothing but sill aren't helping the ones who could escape.
  - Mz 9y ago
    I only went to homeless services when I was truly destitute for basically the first six months. If I can find another solution, I do. Most homeless services are incredibly crappy and often counterproductive.
    - nickthemagicman 9y ago
      I'm with you. I've been homeless before. I would never use a shelter. But if there had been free showers I would have used them lol. I had to use the shower bus riding around SF. Also, if there had been free toothpaste and soap that would have been nice.
      - Mz 9y ago