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As a homeless former professional, I feel that getting back to work is vanishingly far away. 11 year old laptop, broken smart phone, no libraries or cafes or gy
by harlanji 6y ago
As a homeless former professional, I feel that getting back to work is vanishingly far away. 11 year old laptop, broken smart phone, no libraries or cafes or gym showers left... I just had a pretty profoundly failed onboarding for a minimum wage job due to lack of personal IT and the minimum wage pay + catching up on way-past-due urgent+important bills. And that's sober and barely homeless-looking except the 2 year old well maintained clothes (worn and washed weekly once, all bought while I had a good income and of good quality). My last in-person interview in November was rough enough to coordinate with a working but intermittently disconnected phone and old laptop. One must start to believe in a higher power at some point of destitution. I know that ended up on a pretty wild tangent, but this is real.
- loopz 6y agoYet, with job you'd still vote for more income to go to corporations instead of social security net.