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I hope the OP realizes this may be the answer! If you go active army (and I understand they take you up to age 42), you'll have job security in the worst recession since the Great Depression.
Obviously, your choice and/or assignment of MOS is highly important:
My son did and after 4 years of col ed. He is a comissioned officer now. His field was commercial art and everyone and their grandmother is into that. He earns enough to support a wife and child, and on leaves works as a carpenter, not any part of his field.
Cut out all vices and un necessary expenses now. Wake up early, go to bed early and stay up all day long, no naps. Clean up, haircut close shave, make your apt. spotless, stay away from others that aren't working, only hang with working people and make sure you are in someones face at 6.30 am Monday morning. Landscaping, any construction site, dept stores will be hiring for christmas don't get depressed if you are turned down for work just keep pushing forward. Show enthusiasim looking for a job is a hard job in itself.
Wal-Mart is always hiring, so are the fast food joints. Where there's a will, there's a way.
---Wal-Mart is always hiring-----
News to me. not in my area.
Not in the Supercenter 24 miles away
not at the Supercenter 24 miles the other direction
not at the Supercenter 45 miles away
I hope the OP realizes this may be the answer! If you go active army (and I understand they take you up to age 42), you'll have job security in the worst recession since the Great Depression.
Obviously, your choice and/or assignment of MOS is highly important:
At present you have a place to stay and keep clean , get out and test the waters for jobs you'v never done before , nothing wrong in learning a new trade . or several new trades.
I've been homeless and depended on help from others in the past , but these people knew me and knew ome guys can make it on the street, I knew a guy that lived in a cave for a while but no place is perminant, especially if you don't belong there legally.
Churches and thrift stores ae a good source of help , but on your part no matter how little the help is DEMONSTRATE Grattitude, not just words but a genuine smile of appreciation, if it's phoney it'll be the last, that person will be fooled in to helping some one. No one owes it to you, to be kind.
Easy to forget, very important to remember.
I've hitched across country , some bad some good rides some even scarry. back in 1969 . I wouldn't choose to do it again if I didn't have to . Living in the bush is not a tea party either, the more people ther are the less there is to harvest. if oyu have a secrit place you have been preparing all along , keep it secrit, the moment you give it up it is gone, You can't clame it , it doesn't belong to you. With the volume of drugies looking for something to sell, any thing you own(posess) is fair game . You can't turn to the police and they frankly don't care.
Recently I met a man among many,that is living out of his car doing odd jobs , mostly to keep gas in the car because if seen in the same place more than a nite or so the cops are on him.
Because of liability most people won't help homeless, fear of being sued. lawyers have a hey day with this. and th law doe not protect the home owner very well either. so most people I know who expirence a burgiler, shoot to kill . Breaking into a building to get out of the cold can be misinturprted justifiablly.
So you are going to have to work any way and maintain a place to stay, or walk on the wild side and discover life a whole new way. no frills.
skel1977....Im sure everyone can get a job. Fast food hires anyone. I see nothing wrong with working fast food if thats what it takes to survive.
then why can't my 59 year old Vietnamese friend get a job at MacDonalds after being laid off for two years in another job ? He would work it. His wife taught him how to operate a sewing machine and he worked briefly at a mattress factory. He would take anything.
I may have missed if you indicated which part of the country you're in, but here's a sample ad from my area to show that room-and-board positions are available on CL. You could try negotiating for minimum wage:
"looking for a farm hand to help, prefer to trade for room and board"
looking for a farm hand to help, prefer to trade for room and board (http://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/grd/1914635095.html - broken link)
Do you know the problem with that? It's probably illegal--thanks to the federal government.
I would like to have an older person live with me (I have an extra kitchen, bath etc), and clean and cook etc rent-free. But according to the IRS, that person is a live-in employee.
Thus, I have to pay them minimum wage, put money into social security and unemployment for them OR risk being penalized (or even jailed?) for tax evasion/fraud. There is NO statute of limitations on this.
The government claims that if you have live-in help, the person is automatically your "employee." BS I need help and I can't afford 16K a year AND board the person.
But I do have food, and a comfortable renovated space to provide to someone in return for services, but that's not allowed under our current tax code. I'm not sure about others, but the fear of having someone possibly "rat" me out to the IRS even 10 or 15 years later has kind of made me leery of implementing what would be a mutually beneficial situation.
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