2007-07-18 06:50:43 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
This is exactly what I have done. Life is never strictly on your terms, but it can be different.
2007-07-25 13:25:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The problem of not working is when you get older and it is not easy to get a job. You need the time working to be able to retire early and then you or out of the work place.
2007-07-25 12:38:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
For some of us it isn't an option, but rather a thing that is force-fed on us.
To put it simply. I have experience doing clerical types of work. I *can* work, yes, even close to full-time, when I am on proper medication to stabilize my health issues. But.
Most employers in the United States just *will not* get their healthcare through anyone but the stingiest HMOs and PPOs possible, meaning....I can't *get* a job locally where I live. I've tried. I get in counseling, and on medication for my mood disorder, for my depression....that gets stabilized.
Then I try working again, after six months, the income cliffing (courtesy of stringent public aid requirements your rightwads *demanded* and got) hits and *everything* gets *geometrically more expensive at my end*, my rent, counseling fees, everything. And the HMOs and PPOs *refuse* to cover one red cent of the cost of my medications *that I need to work*. Meaning their cost jumps from a $3-5 co-payment to a $150-200 *full cost* payment inside of a month.
And the alternative? Trying and *failing* to get and keep jobs without proper treatment. Ruining my workforce reputation and my credit rating and everything else even further. -_- And *still* having to drop out once the income cliffing hits, HMOs or not.
So yeah....I've dropped out. Not because I "want to" or because of "laziness" or any such "character flaw", but because your employers, HMOs, PPOs, and the money people who *own them* refuse to let me work under conditions that will let me *do the work competently* and keep the damned job. Do you guys *really* think I *want* to be this poor, living in public housing? Hello?? It's like *nobody* has ever heard of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) because your rightwads just *ignore the damned law* whenever they see fit to when it comes to folks with psychiatric issues.
And they get away with it because the Media and the Money People who own it all *say so*. I'm sorry to be so blunt, but I get *really tired* of blaming myself here.
I've worked since I was ten years old, first to get the education, then to try to get the job and get a life. And apparently, nobody respects that, or thinks that *throwing out* one's own childhood is supposed to do any harm, because well.....nobody wants to admit that mental illnesses like depression *are illnesses* and people *still* want to be ignorant and bigoted about it all. That's the *only* way I can now explain, at the age of 40, why I'm not *allowed* to maintain both medication and counseling *at the same time* like the studies show is sometimes needed, long enough to *recover* and *work again*.
It's the *only* way I can explain, after 30 years of trying, *why* my education doesn't matter, and why I can't find work that will *let me continue* taking the medications *I Need* to actually *be able* to work. I've tried, ok?
And your employers *insist* I fail. Your HMOs insist I fail. Your politicians and beancounters insist I fail. Your *society* insists I fail.
So yeah, I've dropped out. I've *been* dropped out, and *drop-kicked* out. But what I really want to know is:
How many human lives are you people going to *waste* like this? Are people really that damn disposable, that you can *waste* good minds and talent like this?
Just asking. Thanks for your time. ^_^
2007-07-25 13:07:11 · answer #3 · answered by Bradley P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why bother when I can go look at USPS walls and see pictures of all those who did just that so successfully a lot of authority figures are asking for your help to contact them.
2007-07-26 00:47:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
A very good life coach :)
Not that I am biased!
I have, and have supported others in doing so! :) It is possible!
but even more importantly what does it take not to! Avoiding your dreams, and sacrificing your happiness is a lot harder then we realize.
2007-07-25 09:37:19 · answer #5 · answered by Delighted 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I did exactly that - now I find myself living on my wife's terms.
2007-07-25 19:07:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A few million dollars.
2007-07-25 13:56:29 · answer #7 · answered by txpainthorse 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
to hear....ching..ching..ching, you've just won the powerball! Then I would say **** this society- AND its shitty "minimum wage" BS
2007-07-25 22:40:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋