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gov't assistance i've been surviving on is gonna run out this week annnnnd i am without a place to live or work
this is not the summer i had in mind for myself
- (i had a paid residency in denmark set up, so being stateside & unemployed / homeless is all due to covid, but it is what it is and now i am just fucked)colin_s
- man that is rough! do you have any prospects for work or places to live? how about money reserves to help you move forward?capn_ron
- Aw mate, that's shitty. Sorry to hear it. Maybe we could set up a QBN funding system? Not sayingI'm in any state to help out though.Ianbolton
- can't you go back to Denmark?OBBTKN
- colin_s do you have sample work you can send? send me an email..umbee54
- Sounds shitty, hope your luck changes soon.dee-dubs
- @ian that's a great idea btwrenderedred
- @ian - appreciated but i've got savings lined up that i can survive on, it's mostly how impossible it is finding housing & work w/neither lined upcolin_s
- Once work gets lined up finding housing will be less of a problem, it's just been a shit show since about Marchcolin_s
- This is the problem in the USA, finding a place is contingent on already having a job, good credit history etc, and people increasingly don't have those.yuekit
- but yuekit dont forget the flipside of legal loophopes in eviction. expect much harder now after certain proclamations********
- colin just get a job. any. home depot is hiring. hell if any savings move away from portland. place has its postives but not worth the cost of living. adapt********
- and thats not to say your situation doesnt suck. but its the same for a ton of people. i believe you are capable enough to figure something out********
- and i thought u were a painter not medical? or is paid residency different in denmark?********
- You never heard of an artist residency?yuekit
- Oh dear, deathboy...Gnash
- lol deathboy it was an artist residency, as in painting / international exhibitions / etc.colin_s
- no not really. anyone i know talks of residency as medical. art is tough in a pandemic. any real skill to follow back on?********
- say this a as GD in advertising. its practical in good times but not so much in bad times.********
- we are no better than a 5yr old with crayons...********
- if you're smart and talented, you most certainly aremonospaced