Memoirs of a can guy (Union, Hope: how much, house, cost)

[livingsinglenyc]

Originally Posted by BestJess

If only you'd really stop posting! Pathetic bully. It's not any fun to be abused online, is it?
If anybody has any questions, please check out the board for the 461 Dean St. apartment lottery.

I'm still up and I like entertainment before bed, I'll bite

[WildCardSteve1]

Originally Posted by WildCardSteve1

Tomorrow should be good.

Problem with Sun. is many of the redemption centers are closed. It's is good for beer cans from Sat. night.


I picked up about 110 yesterday with not much effort.

[jayden22]

$5 gets you some pizza.

[WildCardSteve1]

Yesterday was disappointing. I walked all over the place for 104 bottles. My usual haunts were dried up.


Oh, for a job. Any job.

[UrbanAdventurer]

At times I know I have left an empty can or recyclable plastic bottle conspicuously on top of a garbage can or in an out of the way corner knowing somebody would come collect it.

[WildCardSteve1]

I work the gas stations on Atlantic Ave, and the trash cans on Fulton.


Manhattan is so much better.

[WildCardSteve1]

Maybe I'll saddle up and walk to Bryant Park tomorrow. It's about 6 miles. Good picking, though.

[WildCardSteve1]

Agghh. Rain stinks.

[HomelessLoser]

Hey, Steve,

I was following this thread when it was only like three pages, then things got busy with work and so forth and I haven't read through the rest of the posts since then 'til now -- but I've always had this question (and forgive me if you'd answered it somewhere already): why not just get a regular job??

I'm also in the shelter, at one of them places run by some anonymous non-profit which lists no real information on who they really are on their website (can't believe there hasn't been some kinda exposé in the NYT already on this industry, the "Poverty Industrial Complex" or PIM as I call it), and one thing I'm puzzled by my fellow residents is why they don't just get regular jobs. Okay, so a lot of them aren't the brightest folks, but still, not a lot of jobs require any real smarts...I can't imagine spending all that time for the few dollars being worthwhile. You seem like an intelligent enough and articulate enough fellow -- why collect cans?? This is a serious question and forgive me if it's offensive but I'm genuinely curious.

[WildCardSteve1]

Originally Posted by HomelessLoser

Hey, Steve,

I was following this thread when it was only like three pages, then things got busy with work and so forth and I haven't read through the rest of the posts since then 'til now -- but I've always had this question (and forgive me if you'd answered it somewhere already): why not just get a regular job??

I'm also in the shelter, at one of them places run by some anonymous non-profit which lists no real information on who they really are on their website (can't believe there hasn't been some kinda exposé in the NYT already on this industry, the "Poverty Industrial Complex" or PIM as I call it), and one thing I'm puzzled by my fellow residents is why they don't just get regular jobs. Okay, so a lot of them aren't the brightest folks, but still, not a lot of jobs require any real smarts...I can't imagine spending all that time for the few dollars being worthwhile. You seem like an intelligent enough and articulate enough fellow -- why collect cans?? This is a serious question and forgive me if it's offensive but I'm genuinely curious.

I look, every day. I apply for everything that is remotely suitable. I suppose I could work fast food or something. I'm really not eligible for SSI. I want to work, aside from the money having nothing useful to do leaves a huge void in my life.


I'm going to an info session at stnicksalliance.org at 790 B'way in Bklyn later today to sign up for an environmental training program. I'd be happy to clean up asbestos.


I'm at the exact same sort of shelter. I too think there should be some kind of expose. There's another guy who has a similar story there.