Posted on 08/17/2016 10:57:18 AM PDT by acad1228
I'm a 54 year old draftsman. I've been unemployed since March 2nd. I've been to 31 job interviews after applying to over 60 companies. No one wants to hire a 54 year-old man who is confined to a wheel chair.
When I was laid off from my job of over 22 years, I finally bit the bullet and filed for disability. I was approved, but I won't start receiving payments until October 26th. My rent on this place is due on Sept. 8th but my last unemployment check won't cover it. My wife and I are both disabled and out of much needed meds.
I'm not some damned bum looking to let the government take care of me. I've worked hard all my life. Since I graduated high school, I've rarely worked less than 40 hours per week. I actually calculated it and I've paid in well over $200,000 in State and Federal taxes.
Please, if anyone knows of a job in the Tulsa area that I could do from a wheel chair, let me know. It will be painful, but it's nothing I haven't been dealing with for over the past ten years.
It doesn't even have to be long term. Just enough to get me through to the end of October.
Don't worry about it. Most of us have done it at one time or another.
God has blessed me. If it works out and I can help I will pass that blessing on.
Yea!!!!! Here’s hoping!
God answers prayers and He always provides. Stay close to God and He will stay close to you.
Prayer works, my Fariend. Hope you get good news soon. .
Pinging the prayer warriors for the big guns to petition our Lord.
Amen, Laz!
CaptainK and everyone else who has suggested this, if he rents from a small mom and pop landlord maybe they will be kind and cut him some slack.
If it is a large complex or management company they won’t. It is a violation of fair housing laws. If they do it for one, they have to do it for all.
It does not. I filed an eviction on July 11 and they had to be out by August 11. It depends on the state. Ohio is pretty fast.
Has a “notice to vacate’ been given to you yet by the landlord? Have you gone to court yet? Has the date you need to vacate been determined by the court?
Prayers up.
I would try this first BEFORE selling any items you may still need like furniture, vehicle, etc. You and her are facing a long term situation with disability.
For what it's worth I speak from experience. My wife was disabled a c-5/C-6 incomplete quad for 30 years. 22 years ago I became disabled and when we lost my income and only had her check it was rough going for a while until my appeal went through and I was approved. If she isn't drawing a SSDI check tell that to DHS and both of you file for SSI and Medicaid.
You have another emergency option. Call the city housing authority and explain your entire situation they may be able to get you into emergency housing. Good Luck. Yes a lot of jobs in drafting and engineering have been outsourced off shore. My late B.I.L. found himself out of a job when he was about 54. He was a mechanical engineer specializing in HVAC. The Radioactive Waste Storage Facility in Carlsbad,NM he helped design the management came in and did a huge layoff of the engineering dept one morning and he was among the ones they let go. It took him several years to get hired at anything other than a Temp services company.
ACAD! Respond please!
You are the best, Laz.
Reading post 126 I think he’s gone for the day.
That’s what I was wondering-temp. services can plug a gap. They will hire long-term at times also!
BTTT
Job was freed of his captivity once he fully submitted himself to God, and here is an important point in Job 42:10 he prayed for his friends and not himself. I would submit to you to pray that God would search your heart and if there is anything there that offends God, to repent. You can use Psalm 139: 23-24 as the basis for this prayer.
I’m sorry, I thought I’d replied to you. I posted so many replies, I got kinda lost.
So, I do AutuCAD. We wereusing the latest version.
AutoCAD 2016 and some Inventor
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