u/Sivirus8

If you’re homeless? You get told to get a job to get out of being homeless. You get told if you don’t have a job you also will be homeless.

However, if you have a job when you are homeless and someone at your work finds out? You run the risk of being fired, and then you are back to the same spot all over again.

So, it’s a loop.

Further: hidden homelessness, or visible homelessness even - you get treated like you aren’t even a person by those who view the given circumstance of becoming homeless, as if it defines who you are as a person. This is the “american dream”.

So, I got hired on as both order fulfillment/OFA and front end/cashier, so I am wondering with fulfillment, how physically hard is this going to be on my body? Also with cashier stuff, would I get in trouble if I struggle to get people to get signed on for credit cards?

The other thing I wonder is in the future, how can I go about maybe seeing if I can be part of the customer service/support/returns side of things?

Update: I am trying to gather as much resources as possible, and I do appreciate those in the comments who have been helpful, also as for those who have not been helpful: please assume that you don’t know everything with my situation, as you certainly don’t know me as a person. Hardships happen and sometimes life just throws people more things, and I don’t believe that what life is throwing me is as a punishment, but rather as maybe I need to be in a different situation to get better help with my life.

Update 2: I do not discredit my friend who has helped me this long. Sometimes things just change. I am trying to stay grounded in this situation when this whole situation is truly taking a hit to my mental health. Though I do have good therapist’s, and so I am trying to do what I can.

Situation: Hello, I (26yrs old, intersex, and trans + fairly disabled) am facing a loss of housing tomorrow. I feel exhausted, severely stressed and like things are without direction and it’s too much.

- A friend of mine for awhile has been housing me since November as a means to keep me off the streets while I try to figure out how to find work, get myself mentally more recovered after life has thrown me chaos…

The job market in bellingham has also been rough, so getting this job that I did? It’s sheer luck at this point.

Additionally: I do start the new job on the 15th, I do have a therapist, I also have a case manager (though I won’t be seeing them until the 21st.)

- I don’t own a car, I have like $9 to my name, I am in credit card debt, and I also don’t know how to drive/can’t legally drive due to pre-existing seizure disorder.

I don’t know what to do, how to blend in to not attract unwanted attention, how to also keep stress down when this is genuinely impacting my health.