Cohabiting Women Having More Babies

tranpsosition wrote:

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The skills you lack seem to include job skills that would allow you mobility, the flexibily and drive to squire new skills and motivation. Which doesn't seem different at all from the way a young mother with three children and intellectual challenges might appear, as she stayed on benefits.

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BeHereNow wrote:

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I started working in fifth grade (part time).
Moved from newspaper deliverer, to lawn mower, then dining hall stward at a youth camp (four summers), then busboy at a restaurant, before college.
Freshman year of college not allowed to work.
During college I had two part time jobs, at all times, different jobs at different times, one working for the university, another as a store clerk, another at a handicap summer camp, and others as needed.
I spent four years in the military, rising to E5 in less than 2 years, night manager at a bowling alley, worked as a church camp counselor, then a state employee, doing night shift at a restaurant to pay off my college loan, maintained a small business while working for the state, moved to a different state, still self employed, then began working at my current job.
It seems to me the only flexibility and skills I lack is to be able to have babies.
You will not doubt hint that I must be shiftless and no good, since I had so many jobs, not nearly as stable as those who never had a job in their life, and let taxpayers provide for their care.

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tranpsosition wrote:

You worked a number of low skilled, low paid jobs. Speaking as someone who has made a focused effort to develop high value skills and plan for the future in a global job market, it would be quite easy to look down on you for being shiftless and poorly developed, were I a jerk.
You might also want to avoid being a jerk. Not everyone can get themselves together enough to secure their future.
And/or develop some valuable skills. I'm all about second language development and IT skills, my partner's job is transitioning out of work folks into employment and he's always rattling on about how the older folks are hopeless with their refusal to pick up key skills. If you're interested, I can check and see what he would recommend for the US market.

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Mpnf1979 wrote:

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You don't sound like someone who enjoys their job. I apologize for making that assertion, but if you re-read your posts, you may see how someone would come to that conclusion.
Your population of people has already been determined to be a bit different than the people I'm used to working with. You mentioned you live in a predominantly white area with people who have parents who are financially secure. That is certainly not the case for the majority of people I've dealt with where I am.
I'm also sorry that at 63 years of age you haven't learned how to have a debate without being juvenile. Too bad for you, but I don't expect a whole lot from people who are inherently angry (again, if you disagree, re-read your posts).
I hope you find whatever happiness it is you're seeking.

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tranpsosition wrote:

You worked a number of low skilled, low paid jobs. Speaking as someone who has made a focused effort to develop high value skills and plan for the future in a global job market, it would be quite easy to look down on you for being shiftless and poorly developed, were I a jerk.
You might also want to avoid being a jerk. Not everyone can get themselves together enough to secure their future.
And/or develop some valuable skills. I'm all about second language development and IT skills, my partner's job is transitioning out of work folks into employment and he's always rattling on about how the older folks are hopeless with their refusal to pick up key skills. If you're interested, I can check and see what he would recommend for the US market.

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BeHereNow wrote:

Here's one Mr Cluless will appreciate, being the IT sort that he is.
Yesterday I closed a food stamp case.
Seems my 32 year old SSI recipient was having problems with the internnet service, so he decided to throw the family cat out the second story window.
Surprise, that didn't help.
So he thought throwing the family dog out the same window would work better.
A 'female occupant'(as the newspaper put it) of the dwelling tried to intervene, and he 'punched her in the face'.
Soon after he was in jail, home away from home.
It is amazing how many of the 100 SSI cases I have are revolving door with the county jail.
As long as they are in less than a year, they do not have to repply for the SSI money, it is just restored within 30 days.