OMG I'm going to be thrown into the street!

[daredtowork]

484. Sadly, this is about the gist of it

And this is why I keep saying TTW's stress is believable. A lot of us want to believe a social safety net is there that just isn't there. TTW says she does not have a job, and so she is unable to pay her rent. She is looking homelessness down the barrel. Without a job she isn't in a stable enough situation to set up in a new place.

It's easy to say "well get a job, then". At this point she may be so stressed out that she's in a condition that no one will hire her and/or she wouldn't be able to hold down a job if she got one. That also may be too complicate to explain here. Such a situation could take months if not years to resolve.

People might be inviting TTW to stay with them, but for how long? What will happen if TTW wears out her welcome and doesn't have a job yet? This happened to a homeless woman on Daily Kos who had a dog. She ended up in Nowhere Maine, where it was next to impossible to find a job and very hard to travel out once she was there. She didn't realize she was expected to get her life back together in 3 weeks when she accepted the offer.

Social Services can probably get her out of TTW out of her car and into a shelter (though she officially has to become homeless first). There she will be subject to the rules of that shelter. Having a pet will surely be out of the question.

I don't even have a pet, and I'm trying my best to avoid that fate.