26 and dependent on mommy
That is about 21.64/hour The Formula is hourly=yearly/2080! 52 weeks per year times 40 hours a week. Of course, if you have the average salaried job, it is a bit higher because you are paid for days you don't work(holiday, vacation, sick). Still, $45,000 IS more than the average person gets, and you don't need THAT much to be comfortable in many areas.
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Not driving and working close to home has helped for me.
I also lived in an all-bills-paid rooming house for two years.
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That's a crock of s**t! We live in the same town --I started out making $24,000 in this town and lived alone then. I now make $30,000 and though some months money is tight I still am living alone and taking care of myself. Even bagboys at Safeway make $30,000 a year since it is unionized. Yeah its really hard to make a living if you won't get off your ass and work!
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yeah the only way i can see a bagboy making any kindof serious cash is if they are a bagboy for 15+ years with the same company. but i doubt anyone stays in a postition like that for more than a few years
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A lot of the income issues have to deal with geograhical location. For example, places like San Francisco and New York are going to offer higher incomes because the cost of living is higher.
On the contrast, places in the northern Rockies (Idaho, Montana, etc.), as well as places like Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and north Texas are going to offer lower incomes because the cost of living is lower there.
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In the old days people with Aspergers were expected to work hard and be self supportive like anyone else. Those were the days when people didn't get diagnosed with AS because the diagnosis didn't exist yet. They were just the local mad scientist or eccentric old cat lady. These days kids get an AS diagnosis and they think its their ticket to sitting on their butt playing video games and surfing the net all day as an adult while their parents and society takes care of them.
If you are able to post on WP then you CAN work. The problem is laziness and enabling by parents. I notice especially that single moms seem to like to keep their AS sons dependant so that he will continue to live with her after he graduates high school. So partly it is some parents fault and it is quite sick.
Sure I used to be nervous calling on the phone to make an appointment and nervous at job interviews. But I quit being a weinie and did it anyway. The more I did it, the easier it got.
My diagnosing doctors have said I am highly autistic. Yet even though I did live with my father in my 20's I was working and I did ALL of the cooking, laundry and shopping. I now have multiple illnesses, have TBI but I am living 2000 miles away from family and still dragging myself into work even though I am now considered physically disabled. In fact one of my doctors offered last week to put me on disability, actually tried to insist, but I very blunting told her NO WAY. I would rather die than be dependant on someone else. Look if I can do it, the rest of you can do it.
Quit using autism as your excuse, quit using your enabling parents as an excuse or your immaturity as an excuse. You WILL MATURE as an adult once you get off your lazy butt and pull your own weight in the world. Life experience=Maturity. The older generation of Aspies did it with absolutely no help. You're an adult now-- its your turn!
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ticker thats the most ignorant thing ive ever read. sounds like your butthurt about other peoples current working situation, and you think its unfair if someone else who you dont know with the same diagnosis isnt chipping in as much as you. might i remind you that autism is a spectrum disorder, everyone who has it isnt going to be on the same level of functioning as you. its no easy task getting on social security disability so people who qualify for it dont need your self rightious babble about how they should be chipping in like you, to feel bad.
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Richard you are a strong, tall man. You are physically able to do all kinds of work such as road construction that even an idiot could do. They tell you what to do and you do it. Takes no brains nor reasoning.
Don't try to deny your earlier post that it takes $45,000 to live comfortably in this town because it doesn't.
You have posted in past about hiking up to Mt Humphries if you are able to hike at altitudes above 8,000 feet you are a STRONG young man. If you can do that-- then you can do physical labor like landscaping, construction, bagging groceries. There's a guy bagging groceries at Bashas who has an IQ that is probably about 50 and he is about as autistic as a person can get. HE IS WORKING, so if HE is working THEN YOU CAN WORK TOO as you are much more intelligent and very strong.
Everytime you always have an excuse ready. You and everyone of the other crybabies here are just lazy. Good lord there are people with advanced cancer still working and here you have a strong body and whine because you are scared. Do you know how scared people with cancer are?
I am just wondering which planet Ticker comes from where "eccentric old cat ladies" ever "work hard and be self supportive"?
There is a huge problem with parents being encouraged to condition their AS kids to see themselves as useless and helpless second class citizens, and that is backed up by support strategies that are so inappropriate they often make us less functional than we would otherwise be...never mind the recognised syndrome where some parents define themselves in terms of their disabled children and strive to keep them as helpless as possible.
All that needs to change.
When AS children are raised and educated to see themselves, with pride, as worthwhile, equal but different, people, with the same rights and responsibilities as anyone else.
When support strategies are based on our actual needs, and give us real help to overcome our differences and freely available from kindergarten (which will often save a great deal more money that it costs, even in the short to mid term, let alone the long term) .
THEN a far higher proportion of us will become self supporting, marry, have children and lead fulfilling lives...just as importantly, the suicide rate will dip significantly.
Anyone who thinks that all that is required to be able to work is the ability to submit an internet posting is not only very stupid, but also understands very little about AS, or real life, at all.
Life, and work, is, of course, far easier to handle if one can develop a totally psychopathic disregard for the needs and natures of other people.
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Don't try to deny your earlier post that it takes $45,000 to live comfortably in this town because it doesn't.
You have posted in past about hiking up to Mt Humphries if you are able to hike at altitudes above 8,000 feet you are a STRONG young man. If you can do that-- then you can do physical labor like landscaping, construction, bagging groceries. There's a guy bagging groceries at Bashas who has an IQ that is probably about 50 and he is about as autistic as a person can get. HE IS WORKING, so if HE is working THEN YOU CAN WORK TOO as you are much more intelligent and very strong.
Everytime you always have an excuse ready. You and everyone of the other crybabies here are just lazy. Good lord there are people with advanced cancer still working and here you have a strong body and whine because you are scared. Do you know how scared people with cancer are?
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I guess you guys haven't been following my posts! I once saw a starbucks that offered people about $20/hour to give people coffee! That is $41600 USD/year folks! That is a LOT of money, and requires less physical effort than bagging! ALSO, you could EASILY be comfortable in LA or hollywood at the time with that much! OK, so WHAT was the catch? It was in NORTHERN california, and rents were FAR higher.
BTW I ALSO met BUS DRIVERS that flew from burbank to san jose EVERY WEEK! WHY????? I mean if they did that ALL year, it would cost about $57200 USD!! !! YEAH, YOU READ RIGHT! So WHY did they do it? They got paid MORE in san jose, and the schools paid for the rooms and flights!
Richard,
MAYBE Ticker has a point?
Let's look at this calmly and objectively.
Well...ARE you? (If "yes", can I have your phone number? )
If you are "strong and tall", of course, how is your co-ordination? Would you feel safe using potentially dangerous tools (including pneumatic power tools) in a public area? How do you feel about blindly obeying orders? In real terms, and your own words, how do you feel that would work out for at least 40 hours a week, for the rest of your life?
Would you be prepared to deny your earlier post (if indeed you made one) "that it takes $45,000 to live comfortably in this town" just because it doesn't? (and if you can answer that can you please explain the question to me, because I don't get it?)
Do you feel that your hiking experience has provided you with the skills required for landscaping and construction (of which there are plenty) or, in any way helped you to overcome any sensory and social issues you may have with spending 40 hours a week at a grocery check out?
Would you be prepared to submit to surgery that would reduce your IQ (for example, several good belts with a ballpeen hammer) enough to enable you to overcome any sensory and social difficulties you may have that prevent you from standing in Bashas for 40 hours a week bagging groceries?
Do you feel that people with advanced cancer are most afraid of:
A)Being among people
B)Dying
Do you feel that people with AS are most afraid of:
A)Being among people
B)Dying
And now, one final question:
Do you feel that Ticker has the faintest idea what "Asperger Syndrome" even consists of?
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ticker probably has an idea about what aspergers is, she just thinks everyone should be like her. and if there not then they are loser crybabys. what a revelation! its a good thing im not like her.
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