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so that I can sell my stuff on eBay. I have to give my roomie $50 a month for the service, because we're in an extremely rural area. I can continue to use the internet, as long as I sell most of my art and teaching supplies.
While I appreciate your concern and your suggestions, I have checked with all of the local nursing homes and care providers. Our Independent Living non-profit was supposed to have me working by the middle of last month, but their HR person was abrupt and derisive the last time I called to find out why I am not yet working ("I TOLD you I won't be hiring anyone until we have a placement!"
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I continue to do volunteer work: I teach art at the tiny public library closest to my roomie's home, and I will be doing craft programs at the nearest nursing home. I can do that as long as I can put gas in my car, and my car is still running (it's ten years old). (I MUST have creative outlets--as the clever and under-appreciated Abraham Maslow determined, it's as essential to me as food, water and shelter.)
I have said herein before that I will not go quietly into that dark night, but I strongly believe that this economic crisis has not yet wreaked its fullest havoc. I don't know how I'll survive after my tangible resources are exhausted.
I'm sorry that you're going through such hard times. Please remain hopeful, something is bound to turn up.
Virtual or otherwise! 
I keep putting one foot in front of the other. I keep doing volunteer work, so that I am giving back to the Universe, even as poor as I am. I keep reminding myself that witnessing these historic events is a wondrous gift, perhaps fodder for my writing.
This economic downturn can't last forever. Sooner or later, things will pick up.
In the meantime, here are more hugs.
I 'recycled' most of my teaching supplies to teachers in my Freecycle group. I still have the resources I need to teach higher level math, but I doubt that I'll get hired. Ageism is a real issue for us 50-somethings.
I do appreciate your helpfulness, and the concern I hear when I read your posts.
At the time I thought that it was an exaggeration, but it's not. If a regular paycheck is no longer there and the person ran out of unemployment benefits and their savings, how can they pay rent, bills and put food on the table?
People are applying to posted job openings and they never hear anything at all. It seems that the longer a person is unemployed, the harder it is to find a job. Isn't it ironic? Employers apparently think that they have lost their skills. Therefore, it may help if you do volunteer work in some field that your are familiar with and that it may eventually turn into an offer of a full time job. For example, I have a friend who worked for Chase. A few years ago they transferred to Tampa, FL and after some time she was let go due to the bad economy. She kept busy by volunteering to some non profit that helped people to write resumes, sharpen work skills, etc. After about a year of doing that she was offered a full time job. She makes less money than at Chase, but she's happy to have a job. Have you tried volunteering? It may get you through the door and prove to a potential employer that you're keeping active and that your skills are still sharp.
Good luck!!!
Get creative. Maybe there is some way to fight the eminent domain. Maybe you can force them to pay a reasonable price to buy you out.
Is there a way for you and the other mobile homeowners to hire an attorney? $1,000 is nothing, all of you should definitely get a lot more than that. Don't you guy wait to be victimized by the greedy bastards, fight back!!!
... and I think most of us know this. But most are afraid of the very idea of demanding fair treatment because we've been slaves for way too long. And yet that collapse is coming whether we want it or not, because too many lies have been sold to people as something real and tangible. The chickens are coming home to roost.
Here's the thing: You can't fix corruption. You can't fix cancer. You can't fix capitalism. All three of these things are simply different versions for saying the same thing. For centuries, they've used our ignorance and the prejudices we possess and that they've help to establish within their corrupt society, to keep us from joining together. They fear us joining together more than anything -- 7 billion against chump change.
- And if we don't figure out a way to stop fighting each other to join together to defeat these sick perverts, they'll win.......
K&R
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