I had a series of job failures. It got to be so traumatic that I can't seem to face trying again. It's like I, too, would need some guarantee that they would keep me a minimum amount of time to give me a shot at getting acclimated. I think about going and applying at Good Will, or some such "sheltered" work environment.

I am on SSDI since fairly recently. It is awfully hard to live on what I get. The person closest to me in life tells me to just go get some job. I wonder if he thinks that the SSA just gave me the benefits for the heck of it. I only stopped trying to work after a very long, painful (and documented) struggle.