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Almost anyone can get hired as an aide at a nursing home, and they provide training.
Or you could find a live-in caretaker position, for an elderly person.
Live-in nanny.
Get a CDL and drive a truck.
If you know some decent people, offer to help them, borrow a lawnmower and mow lawns to make some quick cash, whatever you can find. Do whatever you gotta do.
l lost my job about 6 months ago, lost my apartment last month because l couldn't pay the rent, was taken in by a friend who gave me the end of the week to leave him, the bill on my phone is due on thursday with no money to pay it, down to my last 50 dollars. l have done all that need be done towards getting a job- online applications, knocking on office doors , signing up with a recruiting firm all to no avail. All through these l have been encouraging my self that toomorrow will be better but loo it never does.
For the first time in my life l am saying- am beaten,l have had enough ,am giving up all.
hey don't feel bad i have been looking for work for 7 months i have gone to every possible place to get a job including burger king & PIZZA HUT. but i did get some mechanic work on a day to day basis so it puts food on the table every night but it's not a sure thing every day and i only get 20 to 30 bucks on the days that i do work for them. i have spent the last 15 years as a CnC machinist but i guess it wasn't a long term trade. i thought it was something i could retire at 10 years ago when manufacturing was going very strong but not so much now. i have filled out so many apps on line and emailed out resumes and just about live at the employment offices and still nothing. things don't look like there are going to get better any time soon and unemployment rates keep climbing. thank god we own our home and my dw has ssi to depend on getting the basics paid but that's about it. the only thing you can do is what i have been doing is looking every where and any where until something hopefully comes along. just remember if you are already at the bottom you have nowhere to go but up. we have found that out from personal experience.
I hate how this blasted economy has made good people feel so terrible about themselves as workers and as people. Of course, people know "the economy" is bad (and terrible in some places) but that's an intellectual understanding. Damn our rugged individualism that causes people to take it out on themselves when the system itself has broken down.
For the suggestion that an "intentional community" could be a help to the OP's housing situation, what kind of community is that? The few intentional communtiies I know of are very expensive.
I hate how this blasted economy has made good people feel so terrible about themselves as workers and as people. Of course, people know "the economy" is bad (and terrible in some places) but that's an intellectual understanding. Damn our rugged individualism that causes people to take it out on themselves when the system itself has broken down.
For the suggestion that an "intentional community" could be a help to the OP's housing situation, what kind of community is that? The few intentional communtiies I know of are very expensive.
The intentional community he is talking about is more like a hippy commune type of situation. And these types of places can be very good alternatives.
Oh. The places I was thinking of our outside Boston, built from scratch. I see from your name that you see a lot more than I can here.
There are senior agencies that match younger adults with a senior, often living in a big old house, afraid to be alone, unable to do heavier work like snow shoveling or taking out trash, etc. It is *not* nursing aide type work, just live there (usually in a very nice house and neighborhood).
I wonder if the OP might find something like that for living?
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