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Originally Posted by divine1966
Could you get a job that doesn’t require online application or much of anything. Like retail? They hire everyone all the time, as long as you breathe you get hired..
Yes the pay is low but low pay is better than no pay. When you got to eat you’ll take low pay.
TJX company hires all the time (tjmax, Marshall’s, Homegoods, Sierra outpost). You’ll walk in fill out application and might already work tomorrow. It’s been my experience with retail, I periodically take side job in retail so it’s been my experience especially with TJX, hiring is quick and you can work as little or as much as you want. They also often hire coordinators who get paid a little more and can have full time hours if that’s what you want. You can also do stock in the back at odd hours like early mornings at least in Homegoods they hire for that
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Retail work is not an option for me, for health reasons. I tried to work retail before but was unable to. So, it's just not an option for me ever again.
I did find a 105 page booklet online that is a homeless resource PDF so I will consult it for free meals and shelters etc.,.
update: Skimming through the booklet's housing resources, many of the housing descriptions read like this:
"must have proof of 30% income..." Well, if you're homeless you may not be working...
"must have a disability..."
"must have proof of long term homelessness..."
"Sober housing"
"housing for mentally ill. Must have a social worker and diagnosis."
The list goes on. Nowhere, does it state in these housing resources for the homeless, that you can be a single adult without all of those issues, to be eligible for housing help. I have to have children, be abused, be an alcoholic or drug addict, have a family of children and a husband who is also homeless, be severely mentally ill, be homeless for a long time....to qualify for any of these transitional housing resources. This is totally unfair.
I'm hoping this temp agency I joined yesterday will result in a temp job soon. But retail is not a good resource for me that works, because it triggered my asthma, my heart palpitation problems, swelled up my feet. And so I'm just not going to do that to myself again.
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Originally Posted by Aviza
I've been homeless, free or cheap hotels is what I used. Casinos offer free nights. It was still hard, slept in my car two nights in a year of homelessness. Worked as well. Eventually moved in with mom, than got my own place, now in subsidized.
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Sorry to hear you were homeless too Aviza for a year. Glad you are not homeless anymore. How did you work while you were homeless? How did you get qualified for a subsidized apartment?
I did find a few motels around here that advertise cheap nightly rates so I will give them a call.
I did live with my mother while I looked for a job, but she had a stroke and her dementia got worse and disrupted my second semester of grad school this spring.
Now she's finally in a memory care home, but I still don't have a full-time job yet or a place to live and I have to convince my grad school instructor to let me finish my assignments past the grading deadline for her course.