u/Starving_artisian

*******EDIT****** I HAVE NO CAR OR LICENSE

I'm 45. White English only.Was chronically homeless since 2006.

For caught up in being a fool.

Worked so hard on this tough guy image in order to disseminate the hard truth that I can't handle the truth.

Now, as of 04/2024 & By the grace of God, I got subsidized housing (SRO) in East Boston in a landmark building with a broken plaque with illegible words written and fading text that says something like " est.. 1847, first crack house in East Boston"

(I'm not kidding.)

Anyways, I'm perfectly healthy, physically, however mentally , I'm resilient but a little sensitive to dealing with public like restaurants etc.

I have no problem with working with people my experience with work generally speaking has been with restaurants and every experience I've had with that type of work burns me out and I'm already burnt out

I'm looking for some type of entry level manual labor position that doesn't require a degree I have a GED as far as a criminal record is concerned that's irrelevant because it's been over 10 years since I've been arrested so I might as well say that I have no criminal record because legislation that former Governor deval Patrick pushed through seals one's criminal record I believe after eight years.

ANY TIPS WOULD BE MUCH OF LIES PLEASE DON'T TELL ME TO GO TO MASS HIRE CUZ I ALREADY KNOW THAT.

ON a side note I pushed an application through to(mrc) Massachusetts rehabilitation commission.

Yes excuse me headphones over here but they'll be a little bit of weight and formality but I should be able to get help going to college

The transition of going from the street to housing and living in a building where no one works or has ever worked and and the drama that comes with has been a full-time job I'm done with procrastinating and and making full effort !!!

*EDIT I HAVE NO CAR OR LICENSE

I'm 45. White English only.Was chronically homeless since 2006.

For caught up in being a fool.

Worked so hard on this tough guy image in order to disseminate the hard truth that I can't handle the truth.

Now, as of 04/2024 & By the grace of God, I got subsidized housing (SRO) in East Boston in a landmark building with a broken plaque with illegible words written and fading text that says something like " est.. 1847, first crack house in East Boston"

(I'm not kidding.)

Anyways, I'm perfectly healthy, physically, however mentally , I'm resilient but a little sensitive to dealing with public like restaurants etc.

I have no problem with working with people my experience with work generally speaking has been with restaurants and every experience I've had with that type of work burns me out and I'm already burnt out

I'm looking for some type of entry level manual labor position that doesn't require a degree I have a GED as far as a criminal record is concerned that's irrelevant because it's been over 10 years since I've been arrested so I might as well say that I have no criminal record because legislation that former Governor deval Patrick pushed through seals one's criminal record I believe after eight years.

ANY TIPS WOULD BE MUCH OF LIES PLEASE DON'T TELL ME TO GO TO MASS HIRE CUZ I ALREADY KNOW THAT.

ON a side note I pushed an application through to(mrc) Massachusetts rehabilitation commission

The transition of going from the street to housing and living in a building where no one works or has ever worked and and the drama that comes with has been a full-time job I'm done with procrastinating and and making full effort !!!

I'm a man, 45 years old . Grew up in the North shore and became chronically homeless from 2007 to 2024 and finally got housed after I realized that going to treatment becomes counter productive, especially psych placement as I had to say I was suicidal and I was but mainly was playing the system.

Well the system played me.

Because not once did anyone offer me housing or explain what I had to learn through brutal trial and error.

So now I got the privacy I wanted and through this dramatic perspective change I see the reality that loved ones tried to warn me about.

Loneliness which I feel I have no where to turn except reach out and see if any one relates.

Yeah it's love to find a women but I need friends first so I can relearn how to engage normally.

With relatable folks going through similar story.

I know I'm not alone .

Neither are you whom ever you are

My name is Jimmy. I live in East Boston. I've been in Boston area homeless and in and out of psych and detox and jail and every other institution since 2007.

I got housed in 2024. And I live in an SRO in eastie. An 45. And struggle with loneliness which drives me to use meth. Tbh.

Regret it every time.

I would love to maybe start a support group or even meet once person who kind of relates to what I'm going through in this transition of chronic homeless to being housed.

Btw I'm white, and between dei and the roughly 60,000 people who have come from Latin America documented or not have replaced the man like myself looking for menial labor. This is a real phenomena. At least in Boston can't speak for the whole country and I don't want to be all political but as time moves on the politicians around here making Trump look good. And that's f****** sad I just want a community