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.
Are you saying you filed for disability through your employer or Social Security Disability?
The disabled may have extra protections from eviction, or you might qualify for emergency rent assistance from the state.
They must have changed the landlord/tenant law in Washington state at some time when I wasn’t paying attention. Some years ago it took a friend of mine six months and a lawyer to evict a tenant who was not paying and had also stolen appliances.
The government hiring process would be doing well to get him hired by the Oct date, and the Sep date a million to one shot.
I got my last job as a temp. It lasted nine years. They
put me on steady when they saw what I could do.
I support myself doing CAD work from home.
90% of my jobs come from my free ad on craigslist.
Here is a link to free CAD software: http://www.3ds.com/products-services/draftsight-cad-software/
Best wishes!
Remembering what happened with my quadriplegic cousin. Motive and determination of a box-checking bureaucrat can move insurmountable obstacles.
There are lots of companies that outsource services to people who work from home. You could provide customer support from home using your computer. Check out the type of work you could pick up on Amazon Mechanical Turk, too. You get to work whenever you want to. Today’s “gig economy” makes it easy to pick up odd jobs at home.
I filed through social Security after I was let go. I was approved the first time, which I understand only happens about 25% of the time.
Whoa! Thanks!
Do you do site civil? Stormwater, water, sewers, grading, etc? We use ACAD Civil 3D
As a side note, how old are you really Alan?
That is not what happened at the outfit I worked for. Our outfit did almost Billion dollars sales and had 200 workers in engineering department. China bought our engineering know-how developed over 60 years for about $10 million. The owner thought it was lot of money for just giving them paper drawings, and other engineering handbooks. This transaction happened in early 1980”s.
You should address the question to Acad1228.
We had Community Care.
And I'm 54. I'll turn 55 in late December (which is where the 1228 part of my screen name comes from).
I know AutoCAD and some Inventor, but I cam learn anything. We did a little piping, but mostly we designed and detailed oil derricks.
Did you ever have blue cross?
We had Blue Cross about 10 years ago.
I can help with a franklin. where?
I know how this feels, took me 11 months to find a job after the owner of old company sold out. Now I work lifting heavy boxes, and 10 minute morning break and a 15 minute lunch, if I’m lucky. It’s no fun at 58, I should be looking forward to retirement!
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