Respecting the silence this conversation brought, allow me for some comments before life resumes probably with the usual action seen here, but with some inner attention being shifted a bit at least (that's what life usually does to us).tonymax wrote: Sat Sep 05, 2020 8:28 pm one of those would be me...
its not a scam i promise... i wish i did not have to do this.. but..
I am desparate and really need help.. thank you to everyone who has contributed..
my home is on the line and with no income i am selling stuff to enable me to pay important bills like food, water, heating..and my mortgage. and the debt collectors are already now calling.. .. im not sure who else is asking but in these desperate times im using every means i can to get by...
hopefully something is coming up soon and I can get working again.. ive never been out of work since leaving school.. im looking for any work.. not just as a skilled healthcare professional but delivery driver, postman, cleaner... you name it, ive applied for it... but no luck..
We here are mostly part of the "Gig Economy" that sector that needs to reinvent ourselves every new project, album or event. Many other _industries_ just go every morning to their workplace, factory, office or shop at the same address. Have career paths drawn before their feet. Work doing socially recognized essential, demanded or necessity jobs.
Not here. We have been named "dreamers", languid to be deserving a fair price for our time, research, preparation. Our life efforts have been considered hobbies and superfluous by our own families, neighborhood.
Despite all that, many have endured, conserved a laugh in our face and a happy soul, some others have need to keep shoegazing, dwelved in intimate home concerts that hopefully had more than one single person in the audience, or not many if in public places, endured countless rehearsals, years of classes and/or self-teaching, found a way to canalize and express rage in art, take on cold, freezing, dusty, dirty, arrogant, challenging, detrimental, condescending, discriminatory, unhelpful and always, most always surprising and changing environments and people around.
Some of us, sometimes, or in a few cases, have had the contrary experiences to the stated just before, however doing justice with the commonly widely spread unbalance of it, I wont describe these positive unfrequent situations precisely because that is mostly the context that many of us face...
///I do hope that those in need, those in deep need find the way to level themselves, together with their loved ones or close people. Several people is crossing the line of losing dreams, long held supported ones, getting into worse situations where people is losing more... health, relations and ultimately going, gone dear ones.
Then, a word of remembrance that our walk, our trail in many cases seem to have prepared us to move even a further step.
Even there might not be hope in sight.
Well, not sure there are words for such place. Some of us may have lived what you are going thru and what it feels like. And even if that is the case, not sure there is a way to convey that...
Attitudes to promote? Self help, group help? May we share general rules that could assist everyone...?
However, WE are talking here, and whatever, wherever everyone come and share from... it does feel - and it is -, I believe i may say; it is better what we have than no sharing, it is better than what we had before this fora existed.
We are a great community, many times I come to watch what is new, what are the different uses, user experiences, novel ideas. Possibly to communicate with the energy, to have a sense of sharing, in contrast with what many times had faced outside. I do not - mostly - make direct friends, but I have built respect for several developers, some forum experts, unique posters, even to those always rambling and confronting and skeptic, some of them.
We all have lost something, many had to endure difficulties, some have lost a lot, and even people are in dire deep pain now.
...We still have this. Thank YOU
