I am unemployed, on disability benefits, and will go back to school after I finish my vocational online courses.
I need to finish my online courses and pass the final exams that would give me proofreading and editing work from knowadays.com and take their writing courses too or finish skillcrush.com visual design and web development break into tech blueprint courses since the proofreading and editing courses have already been paid for and so have the visual design and web development courses. I have lifetime access to both courses but I got stuck ( confused and overwhelmed)?and I need to finish them to not waste money and develop skills that will lead to part time work. I am also on disability for my mental heath problems and later the cancer. Eventually I hope to add other skills as well to keep employed like translation, transcription, writing and blogging, etc. eventually I want to get off disability benefits but my parents want me to stay on them while I work part time as a financial safety net. Also if I make too much I lose my disability benefits and my government health insurance. They worked really hard to get me social security after four tries so I could have it in place in case my mental health ever relapses again and I have a safety net. I feel like I will be limited on social security disability and can’tSave anything because I can’t have more than $2000 dollars in financial assets. And I can’t make more than $1,500 a month with disability benefits. I don’t think I can handle a full time career being 40+ hours in a week without burning out but I feel like maybe could handle. Maybe 20 hours or its equivalent in a week. If I am feeling really good and focused. Maybe 25-30 at most. But no more than 4-6 hours per day and I would need at least two to three days off to focus on other things like hobbies and passions and running a household and I could. Only work part time while finishing my higher education part time. That’s what I can handle. My sister says I might as well get some help if I can’t handle a full time career because life is too. Expensive to live on only a part time career. Paying for my own insurance would also put my back a few hundred per month and I would probably lose the voucher for subsidized housing. Where I only pay 30% of my income on rent and utilities and the government voucher pays the rests. Even making as little as $25,000 per year would disqualify me from help with reduced cost housing. I wish I could. Work part time and make $50,000 to $100,000 per year. Even $30,000-$ 45,000 is better than nothing. I haven’t showed that I can take care of myself or get through a depressive funk fast enough in the past. My family just worries about me having guaranteed income and having my basic needs provided for.. although.$ 700 dollars a month is not much when I will live on my own but it is ok living in my parents house. An extra $1000-$1500 would give me a lot of wiggle room while living at home for the next few years. That would only be about $18,000 a year not from social security. I feel like a loser and that I am not living up to my potential. Being on disability. Benefits . But right now I am in no condition to have a job . I am looking for remote work with a flexible schedule so I can do it when I feel best. I’m at my best in the afternoons, evenings, and overnights. Into the morning. As far as productivity, energy, creativity, and focus, afternoon and evenings until late night until the early parts of the morning like 3-5 am . I feel a rush of energy around 12-1 pm where I’m starting to perk up. As the afternoon continues on my energy becomes more pronounced. Most people get their energy and best focus around mid morning to early afternoon and slump mid afternoon to late afternoon and by evening their days are winding down. I struggle to get up before noon because I feel like my body is not ready to get up. Eventually I am aiming for 11-11:30 am to wake up in the AM. It’s also a circadian rhythm thing. I’m tired of people telling me if I just go to bed early I will feel ready to wake up early. That’s not how it works. It’s really hard because the world expects you to be an early riser and be alert and productive in the early hours and I tried going to bed earlier but wasn’t even ready to sleep and when I woke up at like 9 am I felt groggy and half asleep. I hated k-12 because you had be up with the sun and I struggled as a teenager and preteen. College was better because you could choose later classes although I was dreading it going to UMASS Dartmouth. I should have chosen another university and I didn’t choose my class times so my dad scheduled them for me because I was dreading going to umass Dartmouth. But I didn’t know what else to do after taking a year off. Working in retail was horrible. If I could have taken my degree online as an asynchronous. Format with no set logo in times but weekly due dates and monthly due dates that would have been better. Or. Self paced or competency based degree format with no weekly deadlines and you had a few months to complete the courses. Or competency based degrees based on subscription periods to the learning material where the faster you do your coursework the more money you save. One of these formats is what I will be doing when I return to school.i will do school remotely in a flexible format and have a career that is flexible.schedule and remote so it can accommodate the rest of my life based on a schedule which is good for me .

