r/homeless • u/Poeticallymade • 1d ago

Being homeless is a full time job we should get paid for this mess

Hi ,

Last post I did see somebody else mention this earlier but man is this true I cannot focus on anything else but trying to get out of this hole . I’m working overtime Monday - Sunday 12am-12am non stop it also feels like having a baby you carrying around with you sometimes it feels like multiple babies with me that I’m nursing 😭. This is crazy I ain neva seen nun like this before 🤣 like what really is this !? What in the world

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u/Vorpal-Spork 1d ago

I work 12 hours a day despite having a 4 hour a day job. No joke just existing as a homeless person is a full time job. Want a 10 minute shower? Hope you have time for an hour long bus trip and then another 45 minutes standing in line.

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u/Poeticallymade 1d ago

It’s so exhausting I used to work while homeless and would be so hard to keep my eyes open . That’s still work being homeless it’s a full Time thing until we break out of it but still even those who get out of it they still worrying it will happen again to them

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u/AwkwardPrint2 1d ago

I love being told how lazy I am. Especially by people who get paid to spend 8 hours sitting at a desk in a dry comfy office.

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u/Interesting-Wind2699 22h ago

My grandparents called it the great depression of the 20th century, and now how much do you feel the slave of the 19th century

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u/Poeticallymade 22h ago

Oh yeah this is definitely something that will Be put in the history books cause it’s effecting everybody wide spread all over tbh this economy is in a crisis it needs fixing it needs help

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u/Interesting-Wind2699 22h ago

It's a global look at the wars and Kaos in Asia, the Middle East, and Russia

And the kingdom to the north shall rule 1 day.

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u/EricForman87 20h ago

The Canadians?

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u/Interesting-Wind2699 20h ago

Alanis Morsett can rule my world isn't that ironic

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u/EricForman87 20h ago

She a bad bitch yeah.

I mean that in the best of ways. Jagged Little Pill is an absolutely brilliant album.

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u/Interesting-Wind2699 19h ago

I do think of her while I poke hole

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u/EricForman87 19h ago

Not gonna lie, I certainly have before.

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u/Sad-Top-3650 15h ago

I'm sorry man, but I'm stealing "poke hole".

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u/Interesting-Wind2699 11h ago

I stole it from the outlaw nation, song, "Ain't nothing Free" if I can't smoke it, if I can't poke it, it better get my V8 stroking

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u/Interesting-Wind2699 11h ago

The new song, song of the south, Mississippi River, so shut my mouth. You see even a southern California city slick D like me can benefit from others

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u/Interesting-Wind2699 20h ago

Damn Canadians

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u/EricForman87 20h ago

Well... I dunno, they're pretty far north, directly for me lol

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u/Interesting-Wind2699 19h ago

Why doesn't Eric Forman live in Wisconsin? Borders Canada if I Recollect, but I'm a Southwest dwelling old fool.

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u/EricForman87 19h ago

I'm in Southeast Louisiana lol

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u/Interesting-Wind2699 19h ago

The French Quarter that was granted those who helped during 1812. I love bacon, beans, battling the British in New Orleans. I used to deliver to the Walmart distribution center on the I10 I believe Hammond LA.

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u/EricForman87 19h ago

I lived in Hammond for a long time after Katrina.

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u/Interesting-Wind2699 20h ago

Lol 😆 no, I am talking a little farther north

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u/EricForman87 20h ago

Lol damn, I'm not necessarily a fan of Trudeau, but the Canadians I've come into contact with always came off as sincerely genuine people... America could use some of that shit rubbed off on their jerk souls... Lol

See! Even I could likely benefit... 🤷🤦😅

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u/Interesting-Wind2699 20h ago

Didn't you know that Canada has been us American jersey souls best alis, and I respect them for helping to gain independence and then building their own nation next 🚪 and Cilen Deon is hot 🔥 🥵. Remember as the band played on as the 🚢 was sinking.

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u/EricForman87 20h ago

I have no ill feeling towards the Canadians, truly. I appreciate their existence, eh.

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u/HotWingsMercedes91 20h ago

The me love you long time GI

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u/Bastian_S_Krane 20h ago

The goal this January is to eradicate the poor and homeless. So WHAT history in WHAT books? January is days away, and there's nothing we can do about what happens next....

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u/Interesting-Wind2699 5h ago

History is written by those whom handled Hero's

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u/Interesting-Wind2699 5h ago

I have been working on what happens next and showed them the errors of their ways. What happens next is upon them. And the last time they hung a hero like me was on a cross

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u/TheaLvzRay 22h ago

Precisely 🙏

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u/marginalizedman71 1d ago

It’s true come winter time just surviving takes equal or more work and effort/hardship than most houses people deal with on their busiest days

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u/Bastian_S_Krane 19h ago

I wouldn't use babies and nursing as a metaphor , mostly because it implies you have to have done those things to understand. I'm being a smart-ass, lol

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u/marginalizedman71 11h ago

… I didn’t?

are you even sure what comment you are responding to?

Also there’s literally a comedian that turns the very point you are making into a mockery with millions of views. You don’t need to be a nurse or a mom to be aware when someone’s doing a egregiously poor job.

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u/WillPayneDev Homeless 1d ago

lol I think that might have been me? And hell yeah this shit is a full time job!!!!!!! Like, i don’t bother anyone and spend my days figuring out how to survive.

BUT I also literally survive off nothing. So if I wanna be okay and live. I walk. I get those resources I need. It’s literally more than a full time job.

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u/Poeticallymade 1d ago

lol yeah it is more than a full time job . Us Homeless folks truley are warriors and nobody can take that from us . Cause this is no joke foreal at the same time it kinda feels like a game too cause it’s a lot of hunting and researching meeting all types of people and quests . I don’t know anything other than being homeless and without a safe place where it could feel like this cause this is the battle stage

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u/Rare_Walrus9953 1d ago

Make this post into a song and get rich.

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u/Interesting-Wind2699 22h ago

Jerry Reed already did " she got the goldmine I got the shafts" in the Assets

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u/Poeticallymade 1d ago

It does sound like a song tbh 😭😭😅

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u/Bastian_S_Krane 19h ago

A rap, maybe. But not a very good one. Needs more imagination than this.

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u/TheaLvzRay 23h ago

I respect EVERYONE rich to under the bridge 👑 But when they both disrespect you, what is the solution?

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u/Poeticallymade 23h ago

It can happen to anybody that’s thing about it . Especially if people keep being wicked to the poor and needy it can turn on them eventually one way or another if they don’t stop

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u/TheaLvzRay 23h ago

That's why I keep it 💯 with both sides

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u/Bastian_S_Krane 20h ago

I'm not sure what you were trying to say...you mean you respect everyone, rich and poor? Or that you respect the rich OVER the poor?

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u/TheaLvzRay 20h ago

I actually respect EVERYONE..👑

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u/TheaLvzRay 20h ago

Actually bro..I give blessings to all..no worries about the little stuff

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u/Bastian_S_Krane 19h ago

Oh, OK, you were saying you respect everyone no matter the situation. That's not an easy thing to do; I have less respect for the privileged, the simple-minded, and unimaginative; they're mostly boring and have no sense of humor and somehow make everything about them. It's not about intelligence, vocabulary, skill level in crafts, or how you grew up(suburbs or streets); if you never challenge anything you've been given(again, good and bad), then you aren't doing much living.

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u/TheaLvzRay 19h ago

Let's make it more simple.. my dad passed away last night 🥺 so yeah.. just want to be able to have friends 🙏

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u/gregbard 21h ago

When there is "not enough" unemployment, the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates so as to create more. This proves that unemployed people serve a function in the economy, and should be compensated for it.

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u/moonbaby1995 15h ago

Preach!!!

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u/SongOfSantaPaula 20h ago

If the homeless were compensated for absorbing hatred, they'd live like kings. Imagine how many significant others don't catch a beating because someone was able to offload their seething rage at a stranger as they drive home. It's a public service.

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u/Bastian_S_Krane 20h ago

Are you speaking from experience?

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u/SongOfSantaPaula 20h ago

Yes, I've absorbed hatred as a homeless person.

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u/pawsncoffee 8h ago

Then you wouldn’t be frightened and coerced into participating, which is the point

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u/b4434343 21h ago

Make this post into a song and get rich.

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u/-___--_-__-____-_-_ 17h ago

You work 80+ hour weeks at any job and you are homeless?

Something doesn't add up. Even at minimum wage ($8/hr) thats $3200/month pre tax, ballpark $2500/month take home. Even in a HCOL you shouldn't be homeless on 2500/month.

What are you not telling us?