I’m on disability, but at one point I entertained the notion of trying to get back to work. I looked at the jobs out there in my profession (I was a legal secretary/ assistant) and then I started looking at generic secretarial jobs. Well, where I live, the legal secretary profession is dying. Law firms and corporations are actually downsizing their support staff. The few jobs there are pay peanuts, have few, if any, benefits and are part time. I’m better off staying on SSD and Medicare.
This is what I learned from your post, in a nutshell:
You were (are) capable of working, didn’t like what the real world had to offer (i.e., a low paying part-time job which would require you to get a second or third job to make ends meet), and *decided* to stay on disability because you’d be “better off”.
Is that what you’re admitting? Because it sure sounds like it.
How is this different from the “welfare queens” and “gibmedats” that Conservatives rant and rave about? I’m genuinely curious.
Would you object to a public service requirement (in keeping with your ability, of course) being a condition of your receiving the assistance?
A lot of people are making that same decision. In the secretarial/admin. assistant field, technology has made the live helper unnecessary for younger tech-savvy workers. I don’t know much about legal secretaries.