Ask HN: How to find work while homeless?

Re:Ask HN: How to find work while homeless? by adventured on Friday February 28, 2020 @11:29AM (#22443916)

I agree with this comment. First seek stability. Then you have a base, launch position, to move upwards from at your personal mental pace, after you get your feet back under you. Most people do not function well at all under the intense stress of homelessness, it breaks you down.

If they can quickly find a tech job, that's great of course; otherwise find anything that provides the necessary stability to make further sound moves from. It's dangerously easily to get trapped in homelessness for extended periods of time as it breaks people down and they can't get back out.

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Re:Ask HN: How to find work while homeless? by larrywright on Friday February 28, 2020 @11:52AM (#22444114)

I’ll second this. Getting any job, and keeping it, will give you a self esteem boost in addition to giving you some structure and income. Use that as a launch pad for bigger and better things.

Put another way, it’s easy to reach too high and then feel depressed or hopeless because you can’t achieve it. It’s much better to walk up the steps one at a time.

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