Do you work or not

[Thisisme373]

Just wondering if people on here hold a job or unable to work or on benefits etc.
If you work what kind of job do you do and if on benefits is it jobseekers or disability?
I've been out of work for 4 years on disability benefits for depression, it's barely enough to get by.

 

[iiii5555]

I work retail. I hate it so much.

 

[felix]

Just wondering if people on here hold a job or unable to work or on benefits etc.
If you work what kind of job do you do and if on benefits is it jobseekers or disability?
I've been out of work for 4 years on disability benefits for depression, it's barely enough to get by.

I've been out of work almost as long. I'm not on anything and live with parents. Are u able to own a car?

 

[snowman626]

Yeah im a rent a cop making min wage. Been doing this crap for 12 years.

 

[Thisisme373]

I work retail. I hate it so much.

I've worked retail in the past I absolutely despised it, I have depression, anxiety and social phobia so it did not suit me at all, I felt exhausted every day, I took things personally and was too shy, I ended up quitting as I felt like I was going to break down.

 

[felix]

I've worked retail in the past I absolutely despised it, I have depression, anxiety and social phobia so it did not suit me at all, I felt exhausted every day, I took things personally and was too shy, I ended quitting as I felt like I was going to break down.

That describes me exactly.

 

[Thisisme373]

I've been out of work almost as long. I'm not on anything and live with parents. Are u able to own a car?

I can just about run my car but might have to give it up soon, how come you don't claim any benefits?

 

[Thisisme373]

Yeah im a rent a cop making min wage. Been doing this crap for 12 years.

Sorry what's a rent a cop?

 

[felix]

I can just about run my car but might have to give it up soon, how come you don't claim any benefits?

Don't know. Mom encourages me not to wants me to get job says I can't live on disability. Dad suggested that I move out on it tho

 

[Thisisme373]

Don't know. Mom encourages me not to wants me to get job says I can't live on disability. Dad suggested that I move out on it tho

How old are you if u don't mind me asking? how do you manage to have anything like a phone or money to do anything?

 

[felix]

How old are you if u don't mind me asking? how do you manage to have anything like a phone or money to do anything?

I'm 22. I have an iPad I bought with my last bit of money. My parents and sister buy food and take me out.

 

[snowman626]

Sorry what's a rent a cop?

Security guard. All i do is walk around some buildings all day. The most annoying part is the phone calls. I hate getting unknown numbers and random people always ask me to do things im not allowed to do for them, like opening certain doors for them, then they get pissed at me. Also 1000s of crows come everynight to roost and shit everywhere

 

[Thisisme373]

A job that would suit me is something where I wouldn't have to interact with people too much, I just like to be left alone, unfortunately with being out of work for four years with depression I'm not really desirable so will have to take some shitty job which will then make me more miserable no doubt, I want to have a method in place incase of all this, I don't even know if I am capable of work at the moment, I'm a nervous wreck and can barely sleep.

 

[Mort]

Bin out work 3years now due to the job making me ill nearly kill LOL the irony of it;) trying to find a job now at 45 with mess up lungs and arthritis in all my joints o and a collapsing vertebra in the bottom of my back thats in time going to leave my paralysed from the waist down so see why i am call it a day well sorry for the mone yes i am out of work to LOL :)

 

[Thisisme373]

Bin out work 3years now due to the job making me ill nearly kill LOL the irony of it;) trying to find a job now at 45 with mess up lungs and arthritis in all my joints o and a collapsing vertebra in the bottom of my back thats in time going to leave my paralysed from the waist down so see why i am call it a day well sorry for the mone yes i am out of work to LOL :)

You are more then welcome to have a moan mate. I totally understand that it's a crap situation, I myself wish I died when I cut my own throat 5 years ago, I nearly bled out but was saved, imagine going to an interview looking depressed, tired and a long scar on you're neck, nobodies gonna employ me.

 

[stellabelle]

Just wondering if people on here hold a job or unable to work or on benefits etc.
If you work what kind of job do you do and if on benefits is it jobseekers or disability?
I've been out of work for 4 years on disability benefits for depression, it's barely enough to get by.

I do not work, and haven't in over a year. I applied for disability and was denied despite my long record. I need to apply again, I never appealed because the depression is so bad it makes it hard to do things.

 

[Memento Mori]

never worked in my life, only internship

I'm able to work some hours, but 8h every day is very hard since I neglected my health to a very serious point, but still I don't care...
am going to work soon, I hope that I can manage my fucked body to keep up, dunno if I would get disability benefits here. don't have any special disease (I think), am just unhealthy af...some sorts of pain already started to bother me in everyday life, like torn ligament, fractures, liver problems, arthrosis...am just waiting for Diabetes to appear lol

 

[FTL.Wanderer]

Just wondering if people on here hold a job or unable to work or on benefits etc.
If you work what kind of job do you do and if on benefits is it jobseekers or disability?
I've been out of work for 4 years on disability benefits for depression, it's barely enough to get by.

I'm adjunct faculty (physics) at three different universities. I also teach online. I travel a LOT for work. It's lonely and isolating. And pays poorly. I thought by now I could retire and try to find some peace in solitude or traveling. But I lost my life savings so here I am again living from paycheck to paycheck. Suicide is also my retirement plan. In a way, I'm very grateful for being deeply suicidal as I couldn't otherwise afford to get old and still be around.

 

[Thisisme373]

I'm adjunct faculty (physics) at three different universities. I also teach online. I travel a LOT for work. It's lonely and isolating. And pays poorly. I thought by now I could retire and try to find some peace in solitude or traveling. But I lost my life savings so here I am again living from paycheck to paycheck. Suicide is also my retirement plan. In a way, I'm very grateful for being deeply suicidal as I couldn't otherwise afford to get old and still be around.

If you don't mind me asking how did you lose your life savings?

 

[Worthless_nobody]

I have not worked in over a year. My last job was customer service in a call center. It was a horrible soul sucking job. I had constant anxiety everyday. I quit because my bf at the time (now ex) said I could come help him with his job. He ended up being an abusive and I recently left him so now I worse off than before. I wish I could get disability but i dont think I have an extensive enough medical history...just dr visits here and there. They act like the physical pain Im in is nothing and that my ptsd and severe anxiety isnt real. They admit im disabled...but not enough.

 

[Thisisme373]

I have not worked in over a year. My last job was customer service in a call center. It was a horrible soul sucking job. I had constant anxiety everyday. I quit because my bf at the time (now ex) said I could come help him with his job. He ended up being an abusive and I recently left him so now I worse off than before. I wish I could get disability but i dont think I have an extensive enough medical history...just dr visits here and there. They act like the physical pain Im in is nothing and that my ptsd and severe anxiety isnt real. They admit im disabled...but not enough.

It was very tough for me to get disability benefits and now it looks like I may lose them so I need to get a job even though I am not at all ready mentally, I feel doomed.

 

[FTL.Wanderer]

If you don't mind me asking how did you lose your life savings?

I tried to help out a friend. I opened a business with him--and spent a small fortune on legal contracts to protect myself... He met a woman who convinced him I was dead weight. All of the money invested in the company was mine, over $260K. When my partner's girlfriend became pregnant with his child, he liquidated everything in our warehouse and emptied our company bank accounts to care for his family and soon-to-be-born child. I was living in a dump in the middle of nowhere Illinois, but they had a luxurious 4-bedroom house... Despite my having a solid legal contract dissolving his interests in the company in the event of financial theft from the company or his failure to pay on the promissory note for his share of the company--along with a professional bookkeeping firm's records of company theft, neither the police nor the state attorney general wanted to get involved. As a result, I could only pursue the matter in civil court. I won, but in the US a civil judgement is worthless unless the sued party has clear assets. This man hid all his assets and put the house he bought with my money in the name of his girlfriend. Long story short, I got not a penny back even after paying more than $20K in legal fees. I can claim the loss on my taxes but I don't make enough for that to matter. So I've lost my life savings.

Moral of story: if you're a chump like me, don't trust other people. Especially the government that doesn't give a damn about whether you live or die.

 

[felix]

It was very tough for me to get disability benefits and now it looks like I may lose them so I need to get a job even though I am not at all ready mentally, I feel doomed.

How r u gonna lose them? How do u lose them?

 

[FTL.Wanderer]

They admit im disabled...but not enough.

Yet these are among the people who tell us that "it's not so bad." To them, there are always solutions besides suicide. :/

 

[Sickman75]

I tried to help out a friend. I opened a business with him--and spent a small fortune on legal contracts to protect myself... He met a woman who convinced him I was dead weight. All of the money invested in the company was mine, over $260K. When my partner's girlfriend became pregnant with his child, he liquidated everything in our warehouse and emptied our company bank accounts to care for his family and soon-to-be-born child. I was living in a dump in the middle of nowhere Illinois, but they had a luxurious 4-bedroom house... Despite my having a solid legal contract dissolving his interests in the company in the event of financial theft from the company or his failure to pay on the promissory note for his share of the company--along with a professional bookkeeping firm's records of company theft, neither the police nor the state attorney general wanted to get involved. As a result, I could only pursue the matter in civil court. I won, but in the US a civil judgement is worthless unless the sued party has clear assets. This man hid all his assets and put the house he bought with my money in the name of his girlfriend. Long story short, I got not a penny back even after paying more than $20K in legal fees. I can claim the loss on my taxes but I don't make enough for that to matter. So I've lost my life savings.

Moral of story: if you're a chump like me, don't trust other people. Especially the government that doesn't give a damn about whether you live or die.

oh my gosh......im sorry to hear about that. what a fucking piece of shit...i coulnt even do tht and im an asshole

 

[Redt2go]

Yeah im a rent a cop making min wage. Been doing this crap for 12 years.

My goodness how

 

[Sickman75]

i havent worked in 4 years. im too fucked up to, my wife ,makes ,money.
something got switched in my head agter my heart attacks i duuno what it was but it did

 

[Thisisme373]

I tried to help out a friend. I opened a business with him--and spent a small fortune on legal contracts to protect myself... He met a woman who convinced him I was dead weight. All of the money invested in the company was mine, over $260K. When my partner's girlfriend became pregnant with his child, he liquidated everything in our warehouse and emptied our company bank accounts to care for his family and soon-to-be-born child. I was living in a dump in the middle of nowhere Illinois, but they had a luxurious 4-bedroom house... Despite my having a solid legal contract dissolving his interests in the company in the event of financial theft from the company or his failure to pay on the promissory note for his share of the company--along with a professional bookkeeping firm's records of company theft, neither the police nor the state attorney general wanted to get involved. As a result, I could only pursue the matter in civil court. I won, but in the US a civil judgement is worthless unless the sued party has clear assets. This man hid all his assets and put the house he bought with my money in the name of his girlfriend. Long story short, I got not a penny back even after paying more than $20K in legal fees. I can claim the loss on my taxes but I don't make enough for that to matter. So I've lost my life savings.

Moral of story: if you're a chump like me, don't trust other people. Especially the government that doesn't give a damn about whether you live or die.

Jesus man that sucks. I'd wanna kill the guy!

 

[Jen Erik]

I've been on disability for nearly 15 years. I feel grateful I have it, but not working is a huge source of shame for me.

 

[felix]

I've been on disability for nearly 15 years. I feel grateful I have it, but not working is a huge source of shame for me.

How do u manage to live on that? I'm considering living on it but concerning about a long work gap