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Have you always worked throughout your life?

When I was 20, I went back to Australia and I surfed a lot and smoked pot and I just stopped working. I live on benefits. But I don’t think one can go through life like that.
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Bleed · 41-45, F
When I was going through a divorce I didn’t work for about 2 years. Finding a job that paid well enough to afford childcare for 3 kids was impossible.
Then I lost my job because of Covid and it took me 2 months to get another job.
AngelUnforgiven · 51-55, F
This question made me think about my dad who dropped out of school in the 3nd grade to work and help his family. He picked cotton and worked the fields, Imagine a 3rd grader in 2025 in the US with a job doing hard labor. Think about that for a moment.
meggie · F
Yes I started working part-time at 14 and while still at school and other than 6 months travel, I've always worked.
Ferise1 · 46-50, M
@meggie and You Feel, Like, You Going to Heaven?
meggie · F
@Ferise1 who knows? But I'm financially comfortable, have travelled lots, worked abroad and enjoy my job. We all make our own choices, which are right for some, but not everyone.
Ferise1 · 46-50, M
@meggie can I ask you what job you do?
Thevy29 · 41-45, M
Mostly, with a couple of periods were I needed Benefits. - I'd rather be working then on the Dole.
Ferise1 · 46-50, M
@Thevy29 because you enjoy activity, or is it pride? Or the money?
Thevy29 · 41-45, M
@Ferise1 The Activity, I work in Aged Care so the money sucks there anyway.
YoMomma ·
I haven't.. i was a kid and then ran away and got married.. i worked a few places here and there but never an official long term job..
Ferise1 · 46-50, M
@YoMomma okay and somehow you don’t feel destined to hell
YoMomma ·
@Ferise1 no.. i question sometimes but i don't constantly feel like i’m going there.. i always hope i’ll change and be better eh? But who knows

Its good to have hope tho like feel like you can do better and go to heaven and all that you know, optimism is happiness?
Yeah
From weekend jobs to after school jobs. And worked since leaving school. 36 years ago
Cigarguy · M
Yes since I was 17 I've always had a job
Ferise1 · 46-50, M
@Cigarguy I worked at 13 distributing flyers on my rollerskates. I got 50 bucks for 1000 but then I stopped working when I was 20 because I smoked pot and surfed a lot
Ferric67 · M
Yeah, I’ve been busy
Since I was 12
Ferise1 · 46-50, M
@BrandNewMan I worked at 13 distributing flyers on my rollerskates. I got 50 bucks for 1000 but then I stopped working when I was 20 because I smoked pardon and surfed a lot
@Ferise1 I was a big kid .. started in farm work baling straw
Yes since i was 16
Ferise1 · 46-50, M
@Shybutwilling2bfriends I worked at 13 distributing flyers on my rollerskates. I got 50 bucks for 1000 but then I stopped working when I was 20 because I smoked pardon and surfed a lot.
Rambler · 61-69, M
Yes. You start early when you're a farm kid.

 
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