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“Get a job”? Find a job that will hire anyone on the spot, AND that can pay for an actual place to live.

It can be done. The job IS going to suck, and you will hate your fucking life for doing it, but it can be done.

https://www.indeed.com/q-general-labor-l-seattle,-wa-jobs.html

Better if you at least have a drivers license.

https://www.indeed.com/q-lot-attendant-l-seattle,-wa-jobs.html

https://www.indeed.com/q-parking-attendant-l-seattle,-wa-jobs.html

I helped a friend throw sod in a back yard one time. Hardest fucking job I’ve ever done in my life, I’ll never do it again. But it paid. :)

https://www.indeed.com/q-turf-l-seattle,-wa-jobs.html

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Did you get that job unwashed? Unshaved? I’m whatever clothing that was in laundered? With severe depression and anxiety?

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It was done in grubbies on my day off because I knew going in it was a hard, dirty job. Nobody cares as long as the job gets done.

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🙄

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https://livingwage.mit.edu/metros/42660

The problem with homelessness is that each person’s situation is a bit different, now to you it might sound like a massive lump of excuses when heard all together, but to an individual the one or multiple things that prevents them from having personal stability is a massive barrier.

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I once helped a homeless stranger get a bus back to Alberta because he hitchhiked to Vancouver over 3 months but couldn’t find the opportunity he wanted to (plus the rents here are upwards of 1500USD equivalent for a small studio), so he wanted to go back. He used to work in construction but he got fired and his wife left him. He wasn’t drunk or high, he was just bumming cigs from people and begging for money. Spending a day with him, I found that little things made him nervous and stressed him out, he couldn’t really advocate for himself well, had nothing but a broken android tablet with his expired health card and birth certificate, and he couldn’t read 24 hour time. The intercity bus operator wouldn’t let him on the bus bc he looked too dirty, even though he was a paying customer. I get him cleaned up at the community shower, a new pair of pants, and I book a flight for him (which ended up being around the same as the bus) gave him 50USD equivalent spending money and the addresses of libraries, charities, employment centres in Lethbridge (this is where he came from). At the airport, they were bugging him that he had only 1 valid ID and 1 expired photo ID, I had to escalate for him 3 times for them to allow him through and get accomodations to guide him through the airport. Something that’s normally so easy to get through if you have a ticket and a phone and whatever is a nightmare for someone so disadvantaged.

Trying to apply for work, not get scammed and advocate for yourself throughout a process is honestly a challenge that is tougher than the actual labour. I’d been taking those things for granted myself. Fines and fees for being poor just worsens the problem.

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