PGF is now homeless. Am living in car, and showering at my sister's apartment. If at all possible, can someone hook the PGF up with a job, and temporary shower facilities? The job is the most important thing though. Gotta pay car insurance come January 27th.
I can drive to wherever you are: that, at least, isn't a problem.
This is in spam, because, well, it's me spamming you for a job. Durr!
Where do you "live"?
I sleep in my car. I'm in Idabel, Oklahoma. It's in McCurtain county, the South Eastern most county in Oklahoma. I'm about 40 minutes from Arkansas, and 30 minutes from Texas.
Too far for me >_>
But why are you homeless?
I was living with my parents. My mom has some kind of Manic/Depressive or Bipolar disorder or something, so I usually avoid her when she's in such a mood. Not this time though. She burst into my room at 3:00 AM in the morning, ranting and raving about me eating the last of the chocolate morsels that she wanted to bake into cookies (she bakes when she's down, too bad her cooking is awful). I sat up and told her to get the fuck out of my room, she screamed incoherentally for thirty minutes (I pushed her out of my room and got dressed), and then she told me to GTFO before she calls the cops on me and has them kick me out.
My dad's no good; he's a broken man after dealing with her for so long. Can't stay with my sister, or any other member of my extended family, because my mom called them immediately after I left, cried to them, and now they all fucking hate my guts. Except that my sister knows how crazy she is, and is letting me shower at her apartment, but I can't stay there for long (or even shower there for long), because she's barely scraping buy on her wages.
I want to get a job as far away from my familly as I can get, and then try to re-enlist in the national guard or something.
I thought you got a job as a server?
http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=7005.0
^This thread? Got fired - sort of - because I had panic attacks while working there, and would zone out or freeze up. I can't stand being the center of attention, especially around people I don't know. I was "sort of" fired in that they were concerned and wanted to know what was wrong, and told me I should get therapy, but I just quit and the manager nodded assent. I was a liability, and they didn't have grounds to fire me, but they would eventually, because I would do something stupid like forget where I am and put my hand in a fryer if I'd stayed there long enough.
I think I have poor mechanisms for coping with stress. I usually retreat into myself, into introspection, and ignore what's going on around me. This works great when you're five years old and a crazy woman is screaming at you for no reason you can understand, and it's fine when you're 12 and the tough kids corner you in a bathroom stall, choke you, and threaten to kill you if you tell on them, but it leaves something to be desired in adult life.
I'm afraid of getting medication, because of what medication did to my dad and sister. They are like borderline retarded, after taking drugs for schizophrenia and personality disorders for decades. I'd rather be poor and alone but have my intellect intact, than be able to tolerate other people and lose the one thing - pretty much the only thing - I love in myself.
I'm thinking about giving my sister all my video games and books, dropping everything that requires infrastructure to support (like a laptop), and just driving off somewhere.
Find a realllly old and maybe not so attractive rich woman to seduce. BINGO
Il talk to friends- but I doupt you want to make the trip to canada, heh.
QuoteI'm afraid of getting medication, because of what medication did to my dad and sister. They are like borderline retarded, after taking drugs for schizophrenia and personality disorders for decades. I'd rather be poor and alone but have my intellect intact, than be able to tolerate other people and lose the one thing - pretty much the only thing - I love in myself.
It's not only tolerating other people, it's also about other people tolerating you. As you have noticed, people with mental disorders are not the easiest te be around. The intellect might stay intact when not taking meds, but what use is it if you can't use your intellect for good? Taking meds or not - your choice, and certainly a difficult one. But it sounds like the least of your issues.
I might be a bit conservative in this, or just lucky, but I love family. If at all possible, please don't leave your family like this. Maybe your family has got it all wrong, or maybe they're right, but I would recommend trying to apologise, even if it is just to have a roof to sleep under. You're not the only person I know that got kicked out of the house by their mom, and I'm hoping things will go as well with you as they did with him, or better. He did go back home, and it was just for a roof at first, and food, but nowadays I might see him home unexpected, because it's nice at home.
I do not expect things to go the same with you, seeing as the families are quite different. If anything, the advice I can give is twofold:
- Do not get angry if you talk with your sister, or other family. It would only make them think they're right in hating your guts. Be sorry instead. If they would hate your guts for that, nothing more you can try.
- Try talking to your sister if you can stay, for a determined period of time (1 month?). Then you both know it's not going to last, meaning it's easier to deal with. If you are serious about what you said earlier in here, you could pay her back by giving some of your stuff, but of course helping around the house too. In the meantime, you can look for a path to follow, a job, the re-enlisting, anything, really: a re-start if you will. With a clear deadline, you can't really do much else.
I wish you best of luck. If you happen to drive past the Netherlands, I will reserve a plate for you. I happen to be good at making pancakes with bacon.
Quote from: Kokojo on September 12, 2011, 04:25:19 pm
Il talk to friends- but I doupt you want to make the trip to canada, heh.
Dude, I will drive to Canada if you can get me a job. I don't know if I can live
and work there, but I can get a passport at the local courthouse and call the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC (or whatever google vomits back at me).
Really hope I don't have to sleep in my car up there. Canadian winters are brutal. And, after I thought about it, I realized I can't pull a mountain man - I have a skin infection. The doctor gave me antibiotics, but he didn't drain the abcesses, and it's not going down, so I'll have to go to the emergency room once I run out of antibiotics and have them drain the abcesses. Even if I didn't have a skin infection, I remember what it was like in the field when I was in the military. If I wasn't already sick, I would be before long.
Quote from: Tea on September 12, 2011, 05:04:35 pmIt's not only tolerating other people, it's also about other people tolerating you. As you have noticed, people with mental disorders are not the easiest te be around. The intellect might stay intact when not taking meds, but what use is it if you can't use your intellect for good? Taking meds or not - your choice, and certainly a difficult one. But it sounds like the least of your issues.
I might be a bit conservative in this, or just lucky, but I love family. If at all possible, please don't leave your family like this. Maybe your family has got it all wrong, or maybe they're right, but I would recommend trying to apologise, even if it is just to have a roof to sleep under. You're not the only person I know that got kicked out of the house by their mom, and I'm hoping things will go as well with you as they did with him, or better. He did go back home, and it was just for a roof at first, and food, but nowadays I might see him home unexpected, because it's nice at home.
I do not expect things to go the same with you, seeing as the families are quite different. If anything, the advice I can give is twofold:
- Do not get angry if you talk with your sister, or other family. It would only make them think they're right in hating your guts. Be sorry instead. If they would hate your guts for that, nothing more you can try.
- Try talking to your sister if you can stay, for a determined period of time (1 month?). Then you both know it's not going to last, meaning it's easier to deal with. If you are serious about what you said earlier in here, you could pay her back by giving some of your stuff, but of course helping around the house too. In the meantime, you can look for a path to follow, a job, the re-enlisting, anything, really: a re-start if you will. With a clear deadline, you can't really do much else.
I wish you best of luck. If you happen to drive past the Netherlands, I will reserve a plate for you. I happen to be good at making pancakes with bacon.
I can stay at my sister's apartment for 14 days total, or else it's a violation of her lease. I moved my stuff over there Saturday. It's really hard living with my sister. I can't do anything to put her in a bad mood, and she's so needy I have to talk to her and be friendly with her whenever I'm around her. It's exhausting.
I reorganized and repacked my stuff, so it fits in less space. I'll go to the pawn shop and sell some of the useless crap tommorrow.
Quote from: GeneralStrife on September 12, 2011, 03:00:26 pm
Find a realllly old and maybe not so attractive rich woman to seduce. BINGO
Won't work, I'm too ugly. Well, not with a beard. With a beard I look okay, definitely a little creepy, but okay (more so if I've been following a work-out routine for a few months). Without a beard, I look like a retarded redneck. I have a really weak chin, and an overbite. I've never dated a girl that lasted past a shave. So I'm a little cynical about depending on females for anything. Unless you look like a supermodel (or you're a complete douchebag who lowers a woman's self-image and make her dependant on your praise), no woman on the planet would ever support you. I gave up years ago.
I'm still looking for a job too, besides i live in the deep south.
Aren't you in Tennesee? That's further north than where I am. And how about the weather this summer? Was that awful or what?
Georgia, it wasn't too bad. You get used to it here, 100 in the summer, 10-20 in the winters. DOUBLE EXTREME
That's not too bad, as winters go. I'm used to -15, maybe the occasional -30 on a really cold night. More important than that is, how long does your winter last, and how much snow do you get?
You could try to make some money by making shitty YT videos where you do something embarassing and uploading them
How does that make me money?
Winters November - end of February snow is uncommon
Quote from: Pickle Girl Fanboy on September 13, 2011, 02:23:03 pm
How does that make me money?
Youtube shares revenues with you if you have enough views in your videos
And what people want to see is: Boobs - Funny people - Puppies - People humiliating themselves (Like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAJZ3AurgU8&feature=fvwrel or this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY0xgRA_Sk0)
Not going to make you millionare, but might give you what you need until you get a better job / a place to live
I can even help you gaining fast popularity if you need
Quote from: Dome on September 13, 2011, 02:40:01 pmYoutube shares revenues with you if you have enough views in your videos
No way! Can you link to something that verifies that?
Quote from: GeneralStrife on September 13, 2011, 02:39:18 pm
Winters November - end of February snow is uncommon
In NE Ohio, winter starts late - Lake Erie keeps us warm - but it's not unusual to get a showstorm or two during October. Sometimes it doesn't come until mid-December, sometimes it's there by the end of September. It's really screwy. Again, lake effect. But no matter when it comes, winter stays late. Like, April late. Even when spring comes, we still get blizzards up until may, and even once on May 30th, though it melted soon after.
Quote from: Pickle Girl Fanboy on September 13, 2011, 02:43:35 pm
No way! Can you link to something that verifies that?
Seriously, aren't you aware?
http://www.youtube.com/partners
"...
Generate revenue from your videos..."
The catch is that you need to be the owner of EVERYTHING you upload (No TV shows, songs not made by you, etc etc...)
Tell me if you need help, I can help you becoming famous faster
Quote from: Dome on September 13, 2011, 02:47:23 pm
Seriously, aren't you aware?
http://www.youtube.com/partners
"...Generate revenue from your videos..."
The catch is that you need to be the owner of EVERYTHING you upload (No TV shows, songs not made by you, etc etc...)
Tell me if you need help, I can help you becoming famous faster
wow...lmao
I don't want to be famous, but I do want money. Tell me more.
What videos should I look for? What's the upper limit allowed, in terms of sex, violence, and depravity?
Quote from: Pickle Girl Fanboy on September 13, 2011, 02:50:52 pm
I don't want to be famous, but I do want money. Tell me more.
What videos should I look for? What's the upper limit allowed, in terms of sex, violence, and depravity?
Do you have any way to record (yourself or others / Your voice)? How much dignity do you have? How much do you need money?
Answer to those questions and I'll tell you what to do
Trust me, I have plenty of ideas, just need someone who's willing to do them
I have a really crappy webcam built into my laptop. I may be able to pawn a bunch of useless shit to get a camera at Wal-Mart, but what should I buy?
No dignity at all, but again, I really value being anonymous. Also, I do have basic infantry training, though there aren't any wars going on in countries where English is a primary or secondary language, so no amatuer journalism.
What I really want to do is humiliate politicians and celebrities. Generally doing disgusting and mean-spirited things to other people is great, so long as it's not illegal (like getting Mitt Romney to eat my shit, disguised as a deep-fried candy bar at the Iowa State Fair).
I need as much money as I can get.
What should my username be? And my gender?
Unrelated, but it really is a shame that I'm an ugly fuck, or else I'd be in porno right now. But, then again, if I wasn't ugly (on top of everything else), I wouldn't be in such a bind.
LOL.
Get a tiger suit and act like congressman wu
http://www.democracyforums.com/showthread.php?t=55091
What? And dome, if this idea is too easy to do, maybe you should PM it to me, so nobody else tries it. Also, I can get a camera once I sell some stuff, but I don't know what camera I should buy. It needs to be compatible with Ubuntu, whatever it is.
How could I keep a camera going when I'm camping out in the woods? Is there a battery backup thing I can use to extned the life of my camera?
Just go apologize to her man
It looks like I'm going to be homeless. I'll drive out to Oran Mor on Saturday, to see if I can stay and work there, but I doubt it. I need somewhere to mail and/or otherwise drop off my stuff. I'll probably let whoever it goes too keep the video games, no matter what happens. They can also keep whatever else I leave behind, if I'm not back in a year to get it.
Not a single fucking commune replied once they found out I'm homeless. Not a single fucking one. Out of all these. (http://directory.ic.org/records/communes.php) It looks like their liberalism stops at their welcome mat. No wonder theists run this fucking country, they're the only ones who stick their fucking necks out, despite all the shit they talk. I mean, how pathetically self-serving is your philosophy that a fucking Afghan jihadi would show more hosptiality than you, the enlightened liberal collectivist?
There's nothing like rejection to throw you political beliefs into the garbage disposal.
If you want to come to Minnesota I can guarantee you a job. Starts at $7.25 an hour, but if you put enough effort into it, you can make $8.50. (highest pay you'll see there, short of being a general manager of one of the Subways. Sadly.) I have enough influence to get you a job. And if you don't like working in fast food forever, the county I'm in has the lowest unemployment in the state, everywhere is looking for a employees.
BRAKE LINE IS BROKEN. AM IN MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA.
What should I do now?
Don't know when I'll be able to access wifi again. PGF out.
Post anything that can be useful, including fixing brake lines.
EDIT
1:20 PM
I'm at the library. They have reasonable hours. There's a Christian Homeless Shelter nearby, so I'll give a bunch of my books to the local library in exchange for a ride back to my car (so I can stow my laptop and other precious and stealable things in my car), and then I'll walk to the shelter.
There's a AAA on the same street as the library, but I don't know what it's hours are. I'll find out later, or tommorrow, or Monday, depending on when it's closed.
Here's the plan:
1. Walk to various auto parts stores, interview sales reps, see how hard it is to fix this thing. If it's terribly hard (and it probably will be, since all my brake fluid will be gone by now, which means I'll have to bleed the brakes even if I do fix it, and bleeding brakes is a 3 hour job requiring two men), then I'll find a place to get it repaired, and get it towed there by AAA.
2. I'll find a place to stow my shit, while getting rid of ass much extraneous shit as I can. The heavy stuff - books - goes first, followed by the redundant shit (PS1 and games, GBA and games, PSP and games, DVDs) as soon as I rip them all to my laptop. External hard drive will go too. As will clothes I don't immediately need.
3. I'll find a job through one of the local churches to get money to pay for the repairs.
4. When repairs are finished, if I have a decent job and I do manage to get on my feet, then I might as well stay here and continue working, since moving again is inherentally risky.
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Alternate Plan
Get rid of everything I can't carry while walking, sell car, get bus ticket. At this point in the alternate plan, there's no point in trying to get a job (since I don't have a car if I just sold it), so I'll proceed directly to living on coast of Washington state by buying a Greyhound bus ticket, and stocking up on survival gear just before I get where I'm going.
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Info to factor into decision making process
*My tags expire December 17th. Will cost between 20 to 60 dollars to get new ones, but I might not be able to if I don't have a mailing address.
*Car insurance expires January 27th. Since I don't have a mailing address, I can't get new insurance (they mail you the cards); unless I can find someone who'll let me use their mailing address or if I get a PO Box, but that means I'll have to stay here for several months.
*I'm 90% dependant on the good will of others right now. The breaks I'm given will determine how I proceed.
*The risk factor. Do I want to continue taking risks (continue to collective in Missouri - risk being dependant on the good will of my fellow liberals, continue to collective in Oregon - same risk as the one in Missouri, or go whole hog and live in woods on coast of Washington - be dependent on no one but myself, but I must give up almost everything I own), or do I want to take a safer path (grow roots here - and get to keep most of my property, though I'll have to grow deeper roots just to keep it, or take up samuraiblackbelt's offer - and go through the whole thing over again, while risking alienating a trusted hacker)? The path I choose depends on what I have to give up to follow that path, how willing I am to give those things up, the possible rewards of the path, and the probable futures of each path. I don't know, I think I'll sleep on it, while doing things that move me forward but not irrevocably down any possible path.
I said I'll tell you who I am, and post a picture of my balls, if the lumps on my neck weren't cancer, in that other thread. They were and are abcesses, so, while they can be life threatening, I don't think I'm off the hook entirely.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001372523944
Here's my facebook. My name is Ryan Taylor.
EDIT
I'm not sure if the actual brake line is broken. It could be that a connector is broken, since the leak seems like it's coming fromk the little metal box halfway down the underside of my car, where all the lines and crap come together. It could be that I bottomed my car out one two many times, or the vibrations of driving 70 miles an hour for three hours either vibrated the connector out or somehow weakened an already damaged part.
Quote from: Pickle Girl Fanboy on October 01, 2011, 01:00:52 pm
My name is Ryan Taylor.
His name was
Robert Paulson Ryan Taylor.
Seriously though. Good luck, PGF.
I'd much prefer to give my video games to a hacker, so if A.N.Y.O.N.E. is nearby or will be nearby, please post in this thread so we can arrange a rendevous. They aren't worth selling, since I can only get 50 cents for each of my games and the systems themselves. You'll do me a favor by picking up my dead weight. You don't even have to need them, just hold them and pass them along to another hacker or teach your younger sibling to appreciate these games, and give them to that sibling.
See if you can find a relative near Muskogee, Oklahoma. Or a friend you can trust. Anything. I hate throwing away valuable gear.
Don't die.
Wish I had a way to help.
While you try to get your shit sorted out I would suggest just going to various shelters, lots have food and beds to sleep in while you figure out your next move. Other than that, I really don't know. Stay with a friend for a little while?
I'm not sure you'll like the weather near where I live, but I do "kind of" live in between where you are now and your destination. I live in between a college dorm and my house, but my parents are fairly intolerant of poor people.
Jobs in my area:
1) Grocery stores/Fast Food/Call Centers
2) Agriculture
3) Construction/Yard Work
4) Medical Related Fields
Sadly, the pay is likely to be minimum (or only slightly above) in all but 4), but 4) usually requires that you have some certification or degree.
Surveying or construction have reasonably good pay-offs for one supporting themselves so long it's union. If you're not against hard manual labor like that, I'd definitely recommend parlaying into that for a while so you can at least grab some good hours of that before it gets to the winter months.
I don't you very well, or at all really, but good luck and be safe!
Quote from: Kalas on October 02, 2011, 01:27:00 am
Surveying or construction have reasonably good pay-offs for one supporting themselves so long it's union. If you're not against hard manual labor like that, I'd definitely recommend parlaying into that for a while so you can at least grab some good hours of that before it gets to the winter months.
I don't you very well, or at all really, but good luck and be safe!
Most of the jobs in my state aren't union unless you're older than 45, and even then, it's not like other states. Mind you, most of the unions I see around here spend more time politicking than actually bothering to unionize kids my age who actually do the lowest wage jobs.
When I lived in Massachusetts, my brother and his friends worked for a construction company that was union and was paid ~11$ an hour for construction work (no real politicking though, just construction and payment) and then the winter months they were "laid off" until work was able to be utilized again. In New York it's almost the same way though I generally see them stand around and do nothing for most of the day (and work is late into the night).
Though...that doesn't help him much. :(
If you come t Minnesota to work at Subway, you could -possibly- get free lodgings in the loft of one of the stores that my boss owns, assuming you'll be the closer on a regular basis (a somewhat sucky job.)
My tags expire at the end of the month, so I'm selling my car and most of my worldly belongings. If no one picks up my games and systems, I'm selling them too. I figure I'll get a bus ticket.
Quote from: formerdeathcorps on October 02, 2011, 01:07:43 am
I'm not sure you'll like the weather near where I live, but I do "kind of" live in between where you are now and your destination. I live in between a college dorm and my house, but my parents are fairly intolerant of poor people.
Jobs in my area:
1) Grocery stores/Fast Food/Call Centers
2) Agriculture
3) Construction/Yard Work
4) Medical Related Fields
Sadly, the pay is likely to be minimum (or only slightly above) in all but 4), but 4) usually requires that you have some certification or degree.
I'm fine with 2 and 3, and I'd like to get training to be an EMT eventually. Having shower facilities, a job, and a place to store my laptop so no one will steal it and it won't die from exposure to the elements is more important than having a roof over my head, since I can sleep outside, no problem. But finding a quiet place to sleep in a city can be a problem.
Quote from: formerdeathcorps on October 02, 2011, 01:31:47 am
Most of the jobs in my state aren't union unless you're older than 45, and even then, it's not like other states. Mind you, most of the unions I see around here spend more time politicking than actually bothering to unionize kids my age who actually do the lowest wage jobs.
Unions talk about how they help people, but every time a union job is given the option to either:
A. Lay off newer workers so older workers can keep their high wages, or
B. Everyone gets a pay cut so no one gets laid off,
All the older members voted to lay off the younger members. So fuck them, I hope some crazy Republican gets elected and they all fucking die when their social security if cut. </insane animostiy>
Quote from: Pickle Girl Fanboy on October 03, 2011, 11:10:01 am
Unions talk about how they help people, but every time a union job is given the option to either:
A. Lay off newer workers so older workers can keep their high wages, or
B. Everyone gets a pay cut so no one gets laid off,
All the older members voted to lay off the younger members. So fuck them, I hope some crazy Republican gets elected and they all fucking die when their social security if cut. </insane animostiy>
Unions in America must be different than in Canada. Here, unions aren't allowed to lay off employees without justifiable cause (coming to work drunk, skipping shifts, stealing, etc) and generally they're good employers because they're monitored really well within themselves to make sure they don't break union rules.
Consider going to charitable organizations looking for work. Generally they know of places where you can find jobs if you're in a tough situation. Although you might end up doing a less than ideal job, it's better than nothing.
It galls me how these old farts go on about rights and all that other shit, when they're explicitly trying to worm their way into new industries so they can screw young people. It's like fucking kids is part of their agenda. Such blatant intergenerational warfare (and that's what it is; a bunch of spoiled rotten Baby Boomers fucking up our generations future) really makes me wish for death panels.
LOL rick santorum.
well i didnt have internets for a fucking month and reading all this shit it just got worse wtf
It gets worse. I can't sell my car for less more than $400, the collective in Oregon is closed for winter, the one in Missouri doesn't want to take the risk on letting me in (they said that I should wait until November, and then apply at another one in Missouri, so I have to go through this whole fucking thing all over again), the carnival I applied at is lifting it's nose at my poor homeless ass. I walk 10 or 12 miles a day, all around town, but there's no longer any point in selling my shit because where would I go?
I'm doing my laundry today, and then I'll reorganize my stuff into a 2 bags - a large pack with clothes, hygiene gear, heavy stuff; and a small pack with the basics and anything I don't want stolen.
I can't sell my car for more $400 because all the car dealers around here know I'm stranded, and they know they can fuck me and get away with it. They don't fucking care, they have no mercy, no pity.
Whenever I apply for a job, I have to tell them my deal, and afterwords they never look me in the eyes. Maybe they think homelessness is contagious.
Funny story - when I was walking north on York street, towards Hastings to sell my books, some little dog started following me. Stupid little thing. Anyways, while it was folllowing me, three different people stopped and offered me money to buy the dog some food. Never mind that I'm fucking homeless, we can't let an animal suffer, now can we?
I'm with GS in Georgia, and if I'm not mistaken, GS goes to South Forsyth High School, or did.
I can certainly help you get a job, and find an apartment, but aside from that, I really can't help you showers or shelter wise.
I can help with gas however. Wherever you plan on going, I'll gladly help pay for the gas to get there.
No, Woodland High school.
I think I'm going to Joplin, Missouri to find work once I sell my car, which should be the 23rd. I also need to contct East Wind to see if I can schedule a visit sometime, but if things go well in Joplin I might just stay there until the work is gone. I'll be working 12 hours a day, every day, if I do go there, so you won't see much of me.
I know there will be work in joplin, they are rebuilding from the nastiest fucking tornado attack ever.