I wouldn't be homeless for long.

I'm just not one of those types.

I'm infantry I'm trained to be homeless...................

LOL.  "Homelessness".

Yup.

The REALLY dumb ones choose to be 'homelessness' .

People would give you money for drugs and beer! Do it
























eta Just get a job somewhere and have a room mate. It doesn't matter if it's 10 hours a week at Mc Donalds.

I've always said if that happened I would become a roving seasonal worker in national parks.  Half those ninnies are just that.  Or, find my way to Alaska and work in a dive bar and live in the back room.  But, I will never allow that.

I would handle homelessness by getting a home ASAP.

+1

 

Life takes us into some dark corners of wierdness sometimes.  

I'm glad you visit with us when that is going on.  

But you are there and we are here at the other end of a keyboard.

I am betting right now that if we were setting together, you, me, or you and any other arfcommer –– We'd say 'Hey!  Come on man, we want you better and squared away.  Let me call your clinic, and see about getting you into a better situation for a while.'

We can't physically do that.  But we would like to.

So you're gonna have to help us this little bit now.  Call a suicide outreach number and just talk to them.  You might get a flake on the other end ot the line, or you might get a squared away person.  Doesn't matter.  What matters is getting you into a place of greater safety and get you some relief.

It's okay.  You're not the first one of us here down this road.  Get yourself some help.

Here's a number I looked up for you to get started, since we don't know your location:



You have good instincts, FACTS.  You've come here to talk with us on arfcom, 'cause there's a lot of smart people with all kinds of life experience (including some bumpy roads) come here.

Get yourself better.  Anybody with a Roman aqueduct for an avatar is cool enough to get his ass better.

this,

and I would have to work hard at doing it.

Couch surf for chores, this is probably even easier these days with Craigslist and a public library. Get any kind of work to save up for a shave and some clean clothes - rake leaves, shovel driveways, mow yards, donate plasma, whatever. Get a job with clean clothes and shaven face. Save for an apartment in a toxic waste dump part of town - restaurant gig that will give you a free meal per shift helps enormously, believe it or not. Work, save, get better job, get better place. Currently in the stage of saving to go to school, hopefully before I hit 30.

Worked for me when I got kicked out from my psychotic parent's house with nothing but the clothes I was wearing and 20 bucks in my wallet when I was 17.

Been there done that in my rebellious teen years.

I'd end up sleeping in the truck.  Wouldn't be the first time.

I would spend my free time studying grammar.

I'd lie about having an address and get a job.

You're an engineering student?  As in made it in to a university of some sort?  Really?  

I've been there, done that.

It's not that bad if you keep your wits about you.
A lot like primitive camping.

The big trick is having the willpower to get through it.
Once you've "lost it" you're toast.

Not always true.

"Homelessness" is a state of mind.



 

Longterm it is.

I was homeless at 18.  no job, no money, and "in between" apartments...

I got a job washing dishes, got an apartment with my brother who was also in the same situation, and worked from there.  oddly enough my desire to join the military only matured after I had already found a good job, got married, and bought a house.

Jeez! your spelling sucks!, Learn Engrish!(English) Math and engineering sure won't help you communicate enough to pass at a job interview. For what its worth I think "The Clown" already has enough illiterates on his payroll.

how old is the OP? and what year of College are you in?