Hi Peace18, I’m sorry your job didn’t work out. Hey we all have setbacks at one time or another. Maybe you got a little too ambitious, but maybe you can get a part-time, low stress job later on down the road. Your daughter is right-on with her comment, she’s right.
I’ve been working since I was 17, I got diagnosed when I was 19. I didn’t work for three years after I got diagnosed. Heck, I’ve had more than twenty-five jobs in my life time and I’ve been fired a million times, I’ve had gaps of as much a year in my work history. I’ve gotten jobs and only lasted two or three weeks and I’ve gotten other jobs where I lasted 5 years.
I’m not discounting your disappointment. I know you feel bad about your job situation, But who knows? Maybe you can rest up for a awhile and try again. Maybe take it slower next time. Maybe take small steps next time to boost your confidence and ease into some simple job. My jobs have all been unskilled, entry level jobs. I’ve worked in Department Stores, restauurants, warehouses, sheltered workshops, vocational programs, and now I have been at my janitor job for five years.
Hey, I’m not ashamed of any of my jobs. Labor jobs are honorable, honest work and I’ve put a lot of effort into my jobs and I’ve been rewarded with self-satisfaction, pride at jobs we’ll done, and accolades from bosses and co-workers.
I’m not saying everyone should do the work I’ve done. Some people shot for the stars and that’s OK. I just plod along doing any job I can get and It’s worked for me.
Hey, you gave it your best shot, that’s all you can do. Rest up, lick your wounds and see what developes in the future. I tried getting off of SSDI too. I found that I couldn’t support myself so I got back on. That’s what it’s there for.
I don’t want to give you false hope but let me tell you a little story.
Back in the nineties I was getting both SSI and SSDI and I was working at the same time I was getting these. Well, then one day I get a letter from Social Security saying that over a period of five years, I shouldn’t have been getting those benefits.
The letter said I had been over-payed $15,000 and that I had to pay it back. I was stunned to say the least. But they also sent me a separate letter saying that if two conditions were true, then I would not have to pay them back. The first condition they told me was that if I could prove that the over-payment was not my fault or if I could prove that paying them back would cause me serious financial hardship then I would not have to pay them back.
I went to the Social Security office to meet a Social Security worker and I brought my step-dad. We talked with the worker and he asked us questions and reviewed my whole case. He had a stack of paperwork that he went through. It was looking grim and after about a half-hour he said it looked like I would have to pay back the entire $15,000.
But then he was thumbing through a stack of papers and he said, “Wait a minute”. He pulled out a blank form and he told us that another Social Security worker neglected to fill out the form and that because of that error of not filling out this form, that it was Social Securities fault that I got over-payed and thus I would not have to pay back anything. I don’t want to get your hopes up un-necessarily but there might be a chance that you don’t have to pay them back. If you think it’s not your fault for some reason that you got over-payed than you can file an appeal.