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Reading through this thread, you're just hoping for a quick and easy solution.

People have given you suggestions and ideas and you've just knocked each one down for whatever reason.

And unfortunately, life doesn't work like that. You need to stop looking for easy solutions and start taking some initiative.
 
yeah....i have a serious issue with authority.....id wash out of the military so fast its not even funny. besides, im too overweight, they wouldnt let me join because i couldnt make it through boot camp. id have to lose about 100 lbs to be able to get in

So what CAN you do?
 
Tough spot to be in for sure. I don't know of any quick fixes for now but once your situation changes you might want to consider getting your class 1 license (not sure what the American equivalent is). This way if you have a rough go in the future you can potentially tap into either big rig hauling, or even public transit (buses, taxi, etc...).

In the meantime stay optimistic and keep in mind while your long trek to your current work will be a royal pain, it could also help you get a little healthier perhaps.

Best of luck!
 
Reading through this thread, you're just hoping for a quick and easy solution.

People have given you suggestions and ideas and you've just knocked each one down for whatever reason.

And unfortunately, life doesn't work like that. You need to stop looking for easy solutions and start taking some initiative.

yeah, if ud lived my life, seen the crap iv seen, felt the loss that i have, you wouldnt be so snarky about it. im as negative as i am because life always beats me down. if somebody isnt stealing something from me, somebody is finding some new way to make my life hell. iv actually had a rather large group of people ( as in around 30 people ) all hell bent on doing anything and everything to make my life miserable. iv been egged, had a window busted out on my vehicle, been mugged, been constantly mocked, the list goes on. oh, did i also mention that my family sucks? guess what? MY FAMILY SUCKS! my mother died of a heart attack. my father blames me for her death. hes a drug addict, shoves his mormonism down ur throat every chance he gets., is in a wheelchair and makes sure everybody feels sorry for him, when its his own lazy ass fault hes in the wheelchair to begin with.

heres a story for ur ass. ok, so he was involved in an industrial accident a few years before i was born. messed up his back. thats fine, i cant be mad for that. years later, the injury caught up with him, nearly paralyzing him. cant really be mad at him for that either. heres what i can be mad for. during that harsh time that he was near-paralyzed, i was his arms and legs. i did EVERYTHING for him, in the bathroom even i did everything for him. i brought him all his food, moved him when he had to move for whatever reason, i literally waited on this man hand and foot for a period of about 6 months, until his body finally started to repair itself. for the first month or so after he got better, he sang praise to the heavens about my service to him. however, nowadays, whenever we get into even the smallest, most insignificant arguement, he forgets all about that and calls me a lazy bum who isnt worth the bargain outlet clothes on my back.

so what does all this have to do with him being lazy? heres what. what caused him to get better finally was another surgery. he had some kinda thing done on his neck that released the pressure on his nerves, allowing his body to work properly again. the doctors gave him a year. they said these words exactly " if you work at it within the next year, you will walk again. " so what did the motherfucker do? he laid his bitch ass in bed, yelled at me, and got high off the painkillers they gave to him. he didnt do jack shit in that year, and is now confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his stupid life. i have no remorse for him at all, because its his own lazy fault that he cant walk right now.

now, this is the part where my mother comes in to it all. she died october 27th, 2007. it was a heart attack, brought on my many factors, not the least of which was stress. stress caused by money problems, stress caused from depression ( long story that im not getting into here....she lost her dream job after 20 years ) and stress from my father always picking on me. now, normally a family grieves and moves on, right? nope. my father wont even talk about my mother. i try to bring her up, hes like " dont you talk about your mother to me "

now some could attribute his behavior to the shock of losing his wife, his love, his soulmate. dont be fooled my friends, it has nothing to do with that at all. he lost his source of wealthy living, thats his only sadness. he saw my mother as nothing more than a paycheck. a golden ticket to the magical land of get-whatever-the-fuck-i-want-because-this-bitch-is-in-love-with-me.
she made serious money, up until a few months before her death, because she was a head nurse at a major hospital in baltimore. THAT is the only reason he married her. the only reason i even exist, is because my father saw his fucking meal ticket in a selfless woman who wanted nothing more than to help those in need.

let me give you people a picture of what hes done in the past 3 years. my mother had $100,000 in life insurance when she died. now, for a family of 3 ( my father, my uncle, and myself ) that would take care of us for more than 2 years due to other sources of income. maybe it wouldnt be the richest life, but bills would be paid and food would be in our stomachs. is that what happened? nope. he wasted it. he bought himself 2 huge tvs, a fancy ass $1000 bed, a laptop computer ( ironically im on that right now, ill explain in a few ), ate delivery pizza, king crab legs, and fancy sub sandwiches from the most expensive place in town, for a year. he wasted that $100,000 away on mostly insignificant things in less than a year. he DID pay for a few important things, like several bills that needed working with, the funeral costs, etc etc. but the rest of it was royally wasted, whilst he lived like a fucking king.

fast forward to febuary 2010. if you all remember, thats the month the east coast of the USA got stomped by a HUGE, record breaking snow storm. yeah, guess who was suddenly homeless the day that storm started in this area? ME! that ungrateful, heartless, selfish, lazy fucking prick of an old man that im ashamed to call my father, he kicked me out merely an hour after it started snowing. oh, thats not even the best part. the way he did it? he went to the local courthouse, said that i beat him up, and that his life was in danger, and got an official protective order, not only forcing me out of the house under police escort, but forcing me to stay out of and away from that house, and out of contact with him, or face legal ramifications ( like jail ).

now why would he do this? some of you are probably asking. ill tell you why, because i didnt wash my used dishes the night before. i worked late the night before, came home, got a bite to eat, put my dishes in the sink, and went to bed. i was tired from working. i was going to do them when i woke up. he woke me up at 7AM ( i only got home at 1AM ) and started screaming about how i never did anything, that i was lazy, blah blah blah blah blah. long story short, we got into a minor scuffle that HE started, and because hes an old man in a wheelchair, he is automatically innocent, no matter what. i went to the court with solid, undeniable evidence that he was a lying sack of shit and that i deserved to have the protective order dismissed. what did i get? the judge took one look at my father, and completely ignored every word that came out of my mouth, and solidified the order for a full year. im still under that stupid protective order now.

fast forward to december. my mothers retirement money becomes available to him, and he gets another $36,000. Once again, that would tide some over for quite a while. now, given the past, i knew my chances of getting any of it were slim to none. so i talked to my uncle, and said " all i want is $5000 so i can buy a vehicle and pay off all my debt, and he wont hear of me again " after some deliberation, and pressure from several different people, i was told over the phone, by my father " $5000 isnt going to happen, i have bills to pay, that money has to last me until i die. ill give you $1500 to buy a vehicle, and thats it, not a penny more. " now naturally, getting ANY of it, i was ecstatic, given the past. til i found out how much he had left of that $36,000. he has a total of $10,000. hes had the money for a MONTH. that man has blown $26,000 IN A MONTH! so much for my mothers retirement money. by the way, go back and read the underlined sentence a few lines up. yeah, see what im talking about? about $3000 of it went to bills, $1800 to me ( i have ways of milking him for money when he has it, i am after all his son, i have his same talent for making people do what i want....not that im proud of it ) and $1000 to my half-sister, and youve got a healthy idea of how much money hes actually wasted. one of the things he bought was not one, but 2 new laptop computers, top of the line machines. did i get one? no, i got the broken, outdated hunk of garbage he bought 3 years ago with the first batch of money he got. This thing had so many viruses and wasted space when i got it, i dont understand how i even have it working right now. thank goodness for geek squad, i suppose.


ok, iv been typing for a while, and frankly im sick of it. basically, the moral of all of this ranting and raving? MY LIFE FUCKING SUCKS WORSE THAN MOST PEOPLE, SO ANYONE WHO THINKS I SHOULD BE MORE POSITIVE CAN SHOVE IT STRAIGHT UP THEIR ASS!!!!!
 
I never said anything about you being negative. You brought that out all on your own. My intent wasn't to be "snarky" Call it tough love.

All I'm saying is that people have been giving you suggestions, and you've been coming up with nothing but rejective responses.

Stop looking to the Internet to solve your problems (especially if you don't like its answers), and take some initiative, stick your chin out, and get through it. That's the only way you can get anything done.

And posting your life story like that? Believe me, I've seen and been through enough to be the female version of Dave Pelzer. But I don't post about it online.
 
Reading through this thread, you're just hoping for a quick and easy solution.

People have given you suggestions and ideas and you've just knocked each one down for whatever reason.

And unfortunately, life doesn't work like that. You need to stop looking for easy solutions and start taking some initiative.

Great advice here.

But you went on a long pity party about how the world does you wrong.

I found your one post regarding the military particularly funny.

"yeah....i have a serious issue with authority.....id wash out of the military so fast its not even funny. besides, im too overweight, they wouldnt let me join because i couldnt make it through boot camp. id have to lose about 100 lbs to be able to get in"

But yet you work for $8.50 an hour. And if you were serious about joining i'm sure any recruiter would put you on a work out plan if you stopped by. Some would even workout with you! But that would take self discipline and accountability and a strong desire to do whatever it takes.

The truth is the only people that can't deal with authority are independant business owners or unemployed.

You're your own worst enemy bro. Opportunities exist. You need to go out there and take them. The money and women will follow. Stop feeling bad for yourself. It's not sexy and it doesn't open opportunity.


GQ
 
I am going to have to agree with Tropic here. I read you life story and yeah it's sucked. No one is going to sit here and say it hasn't but asking mainly total strangers for money on a forum is an easy way out. Most of us on here our struggling ourselves. But people have taken the time to make suggestions and it does seem to me that your response to that is to blow them off and just stick your hand out again. While there is never anything wrong with asking for help you should also be reasonable and accepting of ideas people may have to help you in your situation. You don't have to like the ideas but to dismiss them offhand entirely but at least take time to consider them.

I hope things work out for you.
 
I wasn't going to chime in, but this is kind of getting ridiculous.

Everyone here is giving very good advice. No one is being negative or insulting.

Call up any radio show and say these things, the host would go off on you like a crazy man. They're far more impatient, with people far more willing to help themselves.

Tropic Thunder, GQguy, Knox The Hatter, Shane 2, etc. all gave great advice.

They gave...THE ADVICE. The Answers. It's all there.

I can give you all kinds of sadder stories people in my life have, who have overcome up...some never even complaining. My co-worker is an older black lady (for anyone who would even use race as a crutch) who served in the first Gulf War, overcame breast cancer, and went through two divorces, neither her fault. Yet she prays daily and is very spiritual, not religious, is humble...and you'd never know these things about her because she's no braggart! She works hard and eventually became department head and is well liked.

I have another friend who is an even older black lady who cleaned tables with me....sometimes until 4 in the morning or later...sometimes 12 hour shifts, sometimes 15 or 16 hour shifts.... 5 or 6 days a week, and lives in a trailer in the woods...and has a limp.
When I get rich I'm buying her a new house.
Hell, she didn't even have a vehicle, she'd hitch rides with whoever she could, ....usually me. She was jolly, spiritual also, and rarely complained.

I work with one girl who has three jobs!

I've known people who were blind, deaf, in wheelchairs, one with muscular dystrophy! who always had jobs....that dude even got promoted because his boss was stealing, so they fired the boss and put the guy with muscular dystrophy in his place as the new boss because he was reliable and didn't steal!

Before my dad died the last thing he told me was "Get out of the way of the television set!" I'm just coming off a bad divorce, and yet I'm not going to wallow in misery. I have so much to be thankful for. Those wonderful people in my life, my friends, which I work for, friendship takes a degree of work.

Life takes a degree of hard work. I've never been fired, I've been asked back after every job I've left, because I showed up on time, I work hard, I work extra, I don't complain (that often!) and I don't get in fights or cause unnecessary drama with anyone.

How many of you here, on this forum, have struggled, harder than us, I bet, had a much more difficult road in life, who have overcome it? People with handicaps, single mothers, single fathers, huge setbacks, who have got above it all?

Stories please!

Yes, the military was an answer. Yes, a second job is certainly an answer. Yes, a better job is certainly an answer.

This website/talk show/writer can help you. He DOES have, The Answers.
They are the answers most here have already said, but he can expand on them greatly. You probably won't like any of his answers, but that doesn't matter - those are the correct answers to your problems.
The ever growing and expanding Dave Ramsey. Excellent show for anyone trying to get out of debt. I'm surprisingly finding, without my telling them, several different friends are fans of his:

http://www.daveramsey.com/home/

Podcasts - listen, to these:

http://www.daveramsey.com/radio/home/

If you follow everyone above's advice, and get on this website and learn everything there, you can not only get out of this immediate hole, but get your financial life in order for the rest of your life.
 
Listen to this one........

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There are a lot of LIBS here can't believe they are not sending you money? Oh that's right they would give you other people's money!
 
How'd you do it?

(I'm guessing hard work, but we'll see).......

actually, im supporting this question....iv tried plenty.....i just cant seem to do it. iv managed to drop 30 lbs, then got stuck where i am now.
 
I am going to have to agree with Tropic here. I read you life story and yeah it's sucked. No one is going to sit here and say it hasn't but asking mainly total strangers for money on a forum is an easy way out. Most of us on here our struggling ourselves. But people have taken the time to make suggestions and it does seem to me that your response to that is to blow them off and just stick your hand out again. While there is never anything wrong with asking for help you should also be reasonable and accepting of ideas people may have to help you in your situation. You don't have to like the ideas but to dismiss them offhand entirely but at least take time to consider them.

I hope things work out for you.

if i dismiss an idea entirely, ill say so. and frankly, i dont have my hand out.....i posted knowing full well i wouldnt get a cent....the suggestions were what i was looking for.
 
I'm actually surprised how many people are being jerks

rather than giving useful advice
(or maybe in addition to it) including at least one person who
was in a similar circumstance not too long ago, asking for advice to make money fast.
There's a difference there, yes, but the poster's circumstances were about the same at the time... Doesn't kill a person to be a little more helpful with the suggestions...

---- Can you shovel snow (ok it might be gone now) depending upon where you are, or put flyers in area mailboxes (maybe not immediate neighbors', I don't know what they're like) offering to do yardwork for 20.00 an hour?

--- Or put flyers to that effect in your local supermarket? First name & (cell phone?) only or however... You have to be careful people don't take advantage either of course --

---- Selling stuff on ebay might also take too long? And you have to be able to post a picture of the stuff...

It may not be quite enough fast enough, either --- Just trying to think of some other options if you can't get help here.

ok, fyi everyone, this = useful advice. im actually about to go do that flyer-in-the-supermarket thing when i get off of here. thank you Babbles
 
I've lived in VA and MD before, and people out there tend to freakin' PANIC when they see snow. Wait for the next storm, and then go door-to-door offering to shovel people's driveways for $50-100 a pop (depending on how affluent the area is). You can make bank pretty quickly, and it's all in cash.

once again, this = useful advice. lack of snow hinders it, but when it snows again ill try it out. ( although god my back hates doing it.....23 years old, never seriously injured and i can throw my back out just from shoveling snow....good grief n gravy )
 
Why don't you try getting a better job are you a felon, or is your record bad , I'm pretty sure theres staffing ,or temp agencies , where your at there allover the country and why don't you use public transportation to get from point A to point B, you also could get a second part time job any fast food place or any little sales store that doesn't require very much experience theres places that offer trade classess that are only a couple weeks long like security jobs that require a perc card and or a getting a forklift license witch only takes two weeks and income tax classes are another example there only a couple weeks long to.
So you see theres many options you could take its all about seeking and being hungry, and taking action feeling sorry for your self is not going to put food on the table and you could only do the charity thing for so long before some starts talking smack but hopefully you take my advice to consideration cause I been there before if a immagrants can do it then so can you .My Dad came with nothing at 14 years old and worked his ass off for years and now hes made his life alot more easier for him and for me and my family its just to bad that many ignorant people think they are getting their jobs taking away from illegal immagrants who just try to better their lives just as everybody else did in this country .

admittedly i only skimmed this post, but to answer a question posed in it, the reason i cant get a better job is because me + manual labor = getting fired. its not that im lazy, its that i just dont have the endurance. im always always always tired.....even when i get PLENTY of sleep im still ready to collapse....going to see a doctor about it soon, but in the meantime that has caused me to be fired from every job iv had that requires more then sitting on my ass doing nothing. i either end up so exhausted that i oversleep and am late too often, or i cant finish X task in the required amount of time, and it causes a burden on my co-workers. fortunately the job i have right now accomdates my constant tiredness by being able to sleep on the job ( not really supposed to, but only 2 people can really check on me overnight, and 1 doesnt care, the other has more important things to worry about )
 
and btw tropic, i didnt meant to blow up on you, i apologize for my rudeness.
 
admittedly i only skimmed this post, but to answer a question posed in it, the reason i cant get a better job is because me + manual labor = getting fired. its not that im lazy, its that i just dont have the endurance. im always always always tired.....even when i get PLENTY of sleep im still ready to collapse....going to see a doctor about it soon, but in the meantime that has caused me to be fired from every job iv had that requires more then sitting on my ass doing nothing. i either end up so exhausted that i oversleep and am late too often, or i cant finish X task in the required amount of time, and it causes a burden on my co-workers. fortunately the job i have right now accomdates my constant tiredness by being able to sleep on the job ( not really supposed to, but only 2 people can really check on me overnight, and 1 doesnt care, the other has more important things to worry about )

I used to have that problem, the getting tired, etc etc.

I didn't bother going to a doctor. I simply figured out that it was nothing more than my head telling me I'm sickly because I simply didn't want to work the job.

I've quit a lot of jobs because of this reason, but it finally occurred to me that if I get balls deep in my job, I won't feel a thing. I'll just be so fucking busy doing whatever it is I'm supposed to be doing I won't have time to get tired.

This worked, however, after work, oh boy was I tired for a long while. And I still am, sometimes. But overall, it REALLY helps to go in with the right mind set.

Keep in mind right now I'm unemployed right now, and I have no clue if there's anything physically wrong with you, I'm just saying what I did.

Given your posts and situation, it wouldn't hurt too much for you to go into a new job with a more positive outlook. It might not FIX the situation, but it would help for sure.

And yes, Leo just told somebody to be more positive.
 
I used to have that problem, the getting tired, etc etc.

I didn't bother going to a doctor. I simply figured out that it was nothing more than my head telling me I'm sickly because I simply didn't want to work the job.

I've quit a lot of jobs because of this reason, but it finally occurred to me that if I get balls deep in my job, I won't feel a thing. I'll just be so fucking busy doing whatever it is I'm supposed to be doing I won't have time to get tired.

This worked, however, after work, oh boy was I tired for a long while. And I still am, sometimes. But overall, it REALLY helps to go in with the right mind set

Keep in mind right now I'm unemployed right now, and I have no clue if there's anything physically wrong with you, I'm just saying what I did.

Given your posts and situation, it wouldn't hurt too much for you to go into a new job with a more positive outlook. It might not FIX the situation, but it would help for sure.

And yes, Leo just told somebody to be more positive.

well, see thats the thing, i have no ill will towards my job.....i actually LOVE my job, its like a dream come true. i get paid for basically doing absolutely nothing.....i can play video games, watch movies, read books, sleep, eat, and be a general homebody....and get paid to do it. AND i dont have some nosey ass manager breathing down my neck the whole 8 hours. unless i have to call for some customer- or register-related problem, i see my manager 4 times a night, and never more then 5 minutes at a time. Once when coming on at shift change, when the previous cashier closes out, once when he comes to close out the empty booth(s), once when he collects my mid-shift close out paperwork and money, and once when leaving at shift change. so a total of 20 minutes of my 8 hour day do i actually have my manager there with me.....the other 7 hours and 40 minutes im completely free to do whatever i damn well please. i couldnt ask for a more wonderfully relaxed and easy job. so a more positive outlook on my job? couldnt happen, im 100% content and happy with my job. its the rest of my life that i have the problem with.
 
I'm sure you're aware of it this, but a good sleep all day job sure doesn't do anything for you as you can tell. Do you have any skills or education?

I use to be tired all the time back as an undergraduate. Apparently humans are strange. The more activity I took part in, the more stamina I had the rest of the day. When I would spend my summers just waking up, going and playing world of warcraft for 10 hours a day, I couldn't understand how I had to sleep 12 hours just to get up and do nothing. However with a job and school, I sometimes worked quite efficiently with only 6 hours of sleep (even though I did try to keep on a good 8 hours of sleep a day).
 
well, see thats the thing, i have no ill will towards my job.....i actually LOVE my job, its like a dream come true. i get paid for basically doing absolutely nothing.....i can play video games, watch movies, read books, sleep, eat, and be a general homebody....and get paid to do it. AND i dont have some nosey ass manager breathing down my neck the whole 8 hours. unless i have to call for some customer- or register-related problem, i see my manager 4 times a night, and never more then 5 minutes at a time. Once when coming on at shift change, when the previous cashier closes out, once when he comes to close out the empty booth(s), once when he collects my mid-shift close out paperwork and money, and once when leaving at shift change. so a total of 20 minutes of my 8 hour day do i actually have my manager there with me.....the other 7 hours and 40 minutes im completely free to do whatever i damn well please. i couldnt ask for a more wonderfully relaxed and easy job. so a more positive outlook on my job? couldnt happen, im 100% content and happy with my job. its the rest of my life that i have the problem with.

Alright.

This tells me that you will have no problem working 2 jobs. Since you can watch tv, play video games, and basically do nothing and still get paid at this job, it wouldn't kill you to actually earn your money at another one.
 
Alright.

This tells me that you will have no problem working 2 jobs. Since you can watch tv, play video games, and basically do nothing and still get paid at this job, it wouldn't kill you to actually earn your money at another one.

i actually have an application open in another window this very moment. getting hired is the issue.....lets just say as a teenager, my first few jobs were a joke to me....i was VERY lazy back then and didnt want or need to work. as a result, my first few jobs got rid of me quickly, and that looks bad on my job record. my mom dying was the kick in the ass i needed to realize i had to work to live.
 
i actually have an application open in another window this very moment. getting hired is the issue.....lets just say as a teenager, my first few jobs were a joke to me....i was VERY lazy back then and didnt want or need to work. as a result, my first few jobs got rid of me quickly, and that looks bad on my job record. my mom dying was the kick in the ass i needed to realize i had to work to live.

I quit jobs a day after getting hired. I walked out, cussed managers out, the whole 9 yards. I turned 22 yesterday. With no high school diploma or GED and a job record like that, I'm in a similar boat. I'm also trying to tackle supporting my significant other, not just myself. Mix that with working on my GED, and a crazy family, I know the deal.

The difference is, I have no job. I have 2 people to support. I have, on top of that, to figure out how the fuck I'm going to survive and see my girl on a daily basis.

The other difference is that when I'm online, I study, I fill out more applications than anybody should ever need to, and I keep pushing.

Another one is that I learned that even with all of this, my life is GOOD. I have shit I need to do, but overall, I'm a lucky mother fucker. Once you realize this, you'll spend more time pushing, and less time asking for somebody to push shit for you.

I learned that lesson the hard way, you are going through the same.
 
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