• Grass@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Its longer than that these days. I was out for a bit in my 20s but in my 30s I had to move back because there is no realistic way to live in my own house and all I have to show for my work history is back pain, meniscal tear, poor vision, constant migraines, deteriorated mental capabilities and social skills, probably other crap, debt.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I’m also like that. I only have a job thanks to Hungary’s ultra-bullshit public employment program, which pays half the minimum wage for a full time job, because otherwise I would go to the pub drinking.

      I have multiple disabilities, with the most severe of them caused by the very medication I’m taking to treat one of them (anti-seizure med side effects are so bad I’m thinking of quitting it, if I die then I die), and only one of them are eliglible for a mere 10% cut of my taxes, if I could prove it to a very strict board which was implemented due to the “welfare queen” myth.