by Amberwolf » Fri Jun 12, 2009 6:11 am
Well, in my case I work my butt off at the only parttime job I've been able to get in two years, to earn about $75 less than rent costs me. If it weren't for a sister also living here with me and contributing, plus oddjob work when I can find it, I couldn't live here at all. I am not on any assistance programs, but am going to have to apply for them soon, as I have yet to find anyone hiring more than part time, and those that would hire me part time want me to work whatever hours they decide to give me that week, which I am ALREADY doing at one place--one of the two places would have to be willing to wait each week till I got my schedule from the other so they could schedule me for whatever times I'm not already working, but none of them are. I make *slightly* better money at the place I am now than any of the others so far offered, and about the same hours for any of them (at most about 24 hours a week, over several days, often less than that).
My entire projects are done off donated or trashed items, otherwise I couldn't do the bikes, either. Even my batteries were donated well-used from a powerchair (presumably when they were replaced with new ones; but I don't know). When they die I'll be pedal-only again, until someone else donates some used batteries (unless I can use the few car batteries I've scavenged).
As far as buying into a business, I wouldn't have $1200 to spend on *anything*; I barely earn that much in two months! What little savings I ever had were gone long ago. I'm pretty sure anyone else in my situation that ends up *having* to go onto various assistance programs wouldn't have any money to spend on buying into a business either, but I don't know the people you're talking about, so maybe they're different.
