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is there anywhere i can live on welfare checks?

i recently graduated from college, and I can’t get a job in the field I want. i’ve went through several interviews, and I have no luck.

i feel like a loser mooching off of family and friends, but I don’t want to settle for working somewhere like applebee’s or McDonald’s. too much work for too little money.

i would like to relocate. in your experience, which states have the best welfare benefits? i would move anywhere, but i prefer it to be warm year round and not too rainy.

You're too proud to work in food service or retail, yet you want to take welfare benefits? :rolleyes: Personally, I would feel guilty taking welfare when there are people out there that truly need it. Put that college-educated brain to use and find something. Try temping if you can't find anything else.

DITY?

Ok, lol!

LOL

Read Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich. Basically, there is nowhere you could live and get by on a welfare check or 1 minimum wage job. Good luck buddy.

do you know how much temping sucks?

it's not my fault there's too many people and not enough jobs. what the hell am i supposed to do? just starve? my college education costed me thousands of dollars, and you think i should just settle for a crappy temp, food service, or retail job? i should have not went to college in the first place, if that's the case.

the system screwed up the economy, making it hard to get good jobs. the same system should pay for those who cannot work.

You're right. You shouldn't have "went" to college. I mean, it's not like it did you any good. Obviously.

There are plenty of college graduates who work for "crappy" jobs while they look for better jobs. Heck, it pays the bills right? What makes you so super special that you're too good to work those jobs?

"You can't always get what you want; But if you try sometimes, you just might find you get what you need."

Yes you should settle for that for now. Find a job in a store where you can earn comission and spend your free time or lunch breaks interviewing for jobs in your field. Eventually you'll find one. I'm certainly not an employer but I think if I were I would hands down pick the person who was willing to work hard at a crappy job to get to me than the one who sat back and took welfare. The first person will work their BUTT off to get what they want and isn't that what an employer wants to see? The second one just shows me they are too proud and too lazy...which makes me think they will have issues with my authority or with starting at the bottom like everyone else and won't give me 110% either.

The system is already overloaded paying for single parents who have no other options, for people on disability, for people who have legitmate reasons that they CANNOT work. You can. So you should. You won't starve if you start looking for a temporary job now. Go be a salesman somewhere, for instance. That will pay your bills while you continue to search for a job in your field.

Damn I'm an undergrad and even I know this much. You better believe I'll take Mickey D's over welfare if I can't get a job in my field when I graduate. You can't always get the deluxe cable package.

sometimes life sucks, and you have to do things you don't want to do - if not, deal with the consequences (starve, or continue to feel like a loser for mooching). besides, it's not that you cannot work, you're making the choice not to work. many people don't have that opportunity, and by making that choice because of your pride, you have only yourself to blame if you feel life sucks.

random sidenote: wth is with all the random questions being asked these days in this forum - is there something in the air? seriously. :confused:

word, temping does suck - but do what you gotta do right?

and trust me, having been on welfare before - you dont wanna go there if you dont have to. no one on welfare wants to be it in the first place.

youre jus not trying hard enough.

Is it even pride? I mean shouldn't being on welfare without a legitmate reason make you feel worse than working in McDonald's? Maybe it's just being lazy?

LMAOOOOO I JUST figured out what this means!

My advice would be to re-evaluate your interviewing skills. Maybe it's not the economy but how you are presenting yourself in your interviews. Do a mock interview with a close friend or family member and ask for pointers and feedback.

My younger brother had the same problem. He was trying to find a job in the OKC area in the marketing/sales field.

NO ONE has their sales office in OKC unless that someone happens to be a cold call sales force that goes door to door (probably not what any college grad is interested in doing). He's either going to end up working in oil and gas (as a land man) or he'll be smart and go down to Dallas to find work.

Have you left your comfort zone as far as places you're applying are concerned? Have you applied for jobs in other cities?

In case this isn't a joke, look outside your "field" for a position for which you are confident you can successfully fulfill 85% of the job duties. Branch out.

where i live, unless you are disabled, old, or have kids, it would be super hard to get any help. yeah, temping sucks, but see if you can find a temp job that works for a large bank. my cousin worked for Bank of A as a temp and was making 13 bucks an hour! if he could pull that off as a single parent, you can too! best of luck...

O.K. I'll say it.

Dionysus? Is this you?

Lazy much?

Covered.:)

Umm- but you CAN work. You choose not to because you think you are better than the available positions.

You are not ENTITLED to anything. So if you don't want to starve- get off you butt, get a temp job or food service or retail job and stop waiting for the world to hand you things on a silver platter. It's called WORK for a reason.

why all the hostility?

don't be mad at me because you have to wake up at the pussy crack of dawn to take orders from a sweaty 250 pound man with a toupe.

don't be mad at me because you have to pay shitloads of money for gas in order to commute to and from work every day. i can just catch a ride with one of my boys or a family member.

don't be mad at me because you can't get laid because you have 90 hour work weeks.

don't be mad at me because you have to cover the toilet seat with TP everytime you take a dump. i don't have to do that, because i use my own damn toilet, not some public shithole.

kev

Either get a cheap paying job wit something comming in or nothing at all!

Just because you cannot get a job at what you want or hoped for doesn't mean anything!:rolleyes:

Eat or die!

Work your way up and see waht flies!;)

I'm going to answer this as if it was serious, and if not, then I wasted a couple of minutes...

Mr.Kev, in hindsight, you should have considered the type of loans you would have to re-pay when you made your college decision, and when you made the decision of whether to work through college. If you read the financial aid materials before you graduated, you should have known that payment would come due.

That being said, if you need to, take multiple jobs, or do temp jobs. It may not be pleasant, but it is much more pleasant than going on welfare. Life is not easy; you did not plan well for this point, and it does not sound like you have worked especially hard at getting a job, so now you are in a tight situation. Temp agencies can lead to permanent work, or to a better position within the company if you prove yourself.

Either way, you should not start relying on others (including the government) to bail you out of uncomfortable situations.

FANTASTIC trolling - but yeah, enjoy eating ramen and waking up in the stench of shame and shitty beer.

don't be mad at me because i make it rain

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LOL!

HELL no!

LOL

My lil sis sometimes pulls in $800 a week working almost full time at Applebee's.

To the OP, take a lower paying job while you look for something better. I say this because you're not going to get approved for benefits if the Department of Social Services sees that you're able-bodied and can work for a living. In my state, a single person, in their 20s and in good health would have to work at least 20hrs/week before they can be approved for welfare benefits.

If what I've written confuses you, remember this quote: "I'll do what I'll have to do, if it means I'll get to live indooors."

Either you are a troll or you are an unfortunate, pretentious, parasite on society as well as a waste of oxygen.

I don't think we're mad at you because most of us are not too good to work. What makes me angry, personally, is that you are such a useless leech that you would take money that should go to someone who can't feed their family because you are such a sorry piece or crap that you won't get off your lazy butt and work.

Newsflash. I know your mommy told you you were special, but now you have to be a big boy! You aren't special anymore. People work and you are not too good to, no matter what you think. Get over it.

The above edit reason is my favorite ever.

relax, honey. i would feel the same way if my job involves sleeping with
men who wear lime green suits and walk with snakehead canes. i don't blame you for your anger.

i'm not a self-righteous sheep, i think for myself. anyone who thinks that hard work is a virtue is brainwashed.

kev

three letters..W.T.F. that's all.

Listen up, bucko. Things are the way they are. The economy's not the greatest. Two years out, I'm still looking for the job I want. Don't talk to me about how much "temping sucks" if you haven't even tried it. Maybe if you would stop your whining and put that energy to good use, you'd get somewhere. Suck it up.
Unfortunately a college degree does not equal a guaranteed job. Going on welfare does nothing to help your situation. I hope you're a troll, because if you're not your attitude is beyond pathetic.

three letter S.M.J. that's all.

this is america sweetheart. i can do whatever i please. if i don't want to work, i shouldn't have to work. can you all get this in your heads? the only thing would make me get a job outside of my desired field is that i was given the choice to stay here and work or go to a third world country. i would take desperate lengths. if i cannot get on welfare, i will live in my parents basement past 40. if something happens to them i will live in another relative's basement. i would live in shelters. i would join the peace corps. at the last resort, i would go homeless and ''beg'' for money.

kev

We're sorry, but you came asking a question/for advice and we have given you the best advice/answer we can. Sorry our advice/answer wasn't "Yes please sit on your bum while those of us who do choose to go and work for a living pay for your bum to sit on your couch all day." Or "This state has the best benefits so you can sit and do nothing all day!" Plus you asked this on a message board? Please, at least have the balls to ask someone face to face or do some research.

Subject matter jurisdiction?

If this is flame, I applaud you, its good.

Otherwise, get a job. What was your major, and from what school?

woman, you really think i'm fat? i don't sit in the cubicle for 40+ hours every week. i burn my calories swimming, dancing at clubs, playing sports, and walking from my house to the bus. this is one of the main reasons why i don't like to work, it takes up too much of your recreational time.

Not every job requires you to sit in a cubicle either. Why does this whole thread make me think of that song by TLC "No Scrubs.." Anyone else thinking of that? :D