Disability. I get bored often. I’m going to look for a good paying job when I get done with school and get my loans forgiven.
disability. I’ve tried working but eventually it cause stress which agitates my symptoms…so I’ve just been on disability.
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No, Canada. From what I know we have a bit of a better system than you guys.
I am employed and not entitled to disability so I have to force myself to be employed
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I’m trying to get disability but the government is a bunch of slow turds. I got denied so I’m appealing rn.
I’m on SSI but under review currently. I was told by doctors they don’t believe I can work. I wish I could work but its probably never going to happen.
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I would love to work. But i am advised to not do so. Wish i could though.
On disability.
I spend my time shopping, cooking, cleaning, washing, all those things.
Plus, studying politics & economics, English, history, etc. just to stay as a citizen.
Also lots of hobbies. I have more than 10.
I no longer have the intention of getting back into the workforce. I rather shouldn’t.
Oh I thought I replied to @ZanyNotStoopid
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I am on ssdi.
I tried working 6 months after I started taking meds, but that wasn’t going to happen.
I have had a couple of interviews for retail jobs that I didn’t get hired for.
Working is not in the cards for me anymore.
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I work full-time. However, it’s a temp job and it ends soon. I have a job interview for a permanent job soon. Wish me luck 
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I receive SS and SSI. But I’m always busy just doing stuff for and with my girlfriend. Not a huge amount of time to just sit around. Just doing my daily chores keeps me busy a lot of the time.
I am on SSDI. I have been so much better on lithium, and I feel like I can do something at this point but for my migraines and back pain. Truth be told, though, they are nothing compared to my sza, so if the lithium keeps working, maybe my plan to get back into full-time work will happen. It will take me several years, but I feel really hopeful.
I don’t want to be a burden on my family; I want to buy a house; I want to go on vacations; I want to go on the occasional shopping spree; I want a retirement account. Besides, our term life insurance ends in about 9 years, and we need to be prepared to switch it over to whole life then. There is no way in heck they will re-insure us because I have since developed a blood clotting disorder and had two bouts of PEs and one DVT, and my husband has had a heart attack. It will run us $1200- $1500 a month for the amount of life insurance that we carry. So I need a job!
I’m self employed plus I get disability. I’m making very little with my Avon business, so, I doubt that it will be any threat to my SSDI. So far, on my first sales campaign, I’ve made $33 in commission. I’m now waiting for my last customer to get done playing cards so I can get her order. So, my commission is still up in the air. Somehow, I think this Avon business isn’t going to be as lucrative as I thought.
What, huh, how, why? $1200-1500 seems excessive. Better watch out for that knife in your back.
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Waiting for a hearing for 1 1/2 years. I try to work but fail due to agoraphobia and anxiety. Currently have some assistance until my hearing but strive to be working class “norm.”
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It took me two years to get my aged care certificate that I studied for.
After I survived cancer I was so optimistic about working in aged care and getting away from centrelink.
I can not work.
It was horrid and humiliating and tormenting.
Even when I volunteer worked I had paranoia and st one place some women pulled me aside and asked if I was ok.
I was sleeping in my car for weeks cause I had paranoia about things.
When I volunteered for riding for disabled I had paranoia and delusions even about the disabled people.
One man said he is not comfortable with me caring for his wife.
I was tormented being around her so that suited me too.
My body went stiff and hysterical and I could not move or talk.
Luckily I got out a bye or something.
I care for our home and pets and we care for each other.
My symptoms are too bad for me to work.
I am better now because I managed to chat with a nice woman yesterday and say some words to some others but I am still not well enough to work.
I assist my man and clean once a week and manage us n .
I recently had my pension approved and that helps me immensely.
I try to be and do good and improve MySelf inside and out🌻.
I do have things I do like cooking ,baking,assisting my man ,feeding our pets ,crewchetting,etc
Oh wow. I didn’t know it could take that long.
We have over $2 million in life insurance, so it is expensive. But it is the only way we know that I will be okay if something happens to my husband and I still can’t work. Otherwise, I’ll end up in government housing. I grew up in government housing, and the thought of going back really scares me. I remember hearing gun fights, seeing people using drugs on their patios. A hooker was stabbed in her apartment and the knife was dumped in the garbage bin. I was kidnapped at gunpoint from the payphones and taken into the woods when I was 14… I never want to go back to that.
I work four days a week in a job I enjoy mostly for the people I work with.
I’m about to drop to three days a week so I can add study to the mix.