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Hi Joe,
I read on your personal mini-biography that you retired from the Government on disability in 1999 so do you mean with "and you don't get the chance to get back up" that your disabillity prevent you from working ever again?
With friendly greetings, 
Eric Goedhart
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Eric Goedhart wrote: do you mean with "and you don't get the chance to get back up" that your disabillity prevent you from working ever again?
The answer to that is more-or-less yes. My health makes it impossible to do anything related to labor (i.e. Blue collar) and also limits the amount of time I can physically do anything. I can, however, work part-time at jobs most often classified as White collar. My skill-set is IS/IT with 20+ years of programming and SyAdmin. There aren't many, if any, part-time positions in those fields, though. Also, at 48, I'm getting a little aged for this career field. At least for any jobs I might be able to do. Given the option, companies would rather hire someone young right out of college than an old(er) cripple who's been unemployed nearly 6 years. Between my physical limitations and the discontinuity between my skills and the potential jobs openings, it's been a no-win scenario.
Not that I'm feeling down about it. 
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Retrain yourself.
Learning .net, java or just about any web language is free and easy #titter#. If you're on retirement income you could probably get funding for a correspondence college ocurse. I heard there's this one web site[^] that has loads of resources that you can use.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction.
My work here is done.
or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often *students*, for heaven's sake. -- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)
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That is what I'm in the process of doing, actually. In the fall of '08 I enrolled at Westwood Online and am getting a Game Software Development degree. Whether or not I end up as a programmer of some kind, having a degree will allow me to be a substitute teacher in the county school system. And no matter what happens, I can still do the Indy game thing. The only real problem is that we may run out of money before I can finish the degree. It's getting harder to pay the mortgage, buy food & pay the necessary utilities with a limited income.
I need to find a nice, rich widow. 
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Hmmm, "I don't work" may be a fuzzy one. Is it "I don't work" because being unemployed or because one has their computer and development tools doing the working?
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Yea, child laboring is banned in India. 
Regards - Kunal Chowdhury | Microsoft MVP (Silverlight) | CodeProject MVP | Software Engineer
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Kunal_Chowdhury wrote: Yea, child laboring is banned in India.
You might get his nerves!!
Believe Yourself™
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Neither 20 - 40 nor 40 - 60 seems proper.
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So, on Time-Card you end up on higher bracket
and
minus the break time, you end up on lower.
Choose what you have to say 
♫ 99 little bugs in the code,
99 bugs in the code
We fix a bug, compile it again
101 little bugs in the code ♫
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Browse CP from home for 1 hour a week. Problem solved 
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Neither 20 - 40 nor 40 - 60 seems proper.
To be more specific: they both are proper 
Greetings - Jacek
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then I work 5 hours a week.
--
You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a specialist.
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♫ 99 little bugs in the code,
99 bugs in the code
We fix a bug, compile it again
101 little bugs in the code ♫
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Your nickname reflects that.
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I sit here, in front of the computer.
I look busy.
I browse Codeproject.
Does that count as "work"?
Or does eating BACON count?
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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OriginalGriff wrote: Does that count as "work"?
Yes, although you work for points.
OriginalGriff wrote: Or does eating BACON count?
depends if the bacon is hard. If so, you are working your teeth out.
Ignorance of the ability brings disability.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Does that count as "work"?
Only if you are being paid!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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 I knew I had missed something...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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OriginalGriff wrote: Or does eating BACON count?
Meh. I was going to post BACON, but you beat me to it.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction.
My work here is done.
or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often *students*, for heaven's sake. -- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)
modified on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 10:44 AM
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How can you mention vegetables in the same sentence?
You of all people should know the only vegetable you can name with the Glorious Foodstuff is "Lettuce", as in "Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato".
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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:whistles: I don't know what you're talking about. 
Panic, Chaos, Destruction.
My work here is done.
or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often *students*, for heaven's sake. -- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)
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In my company we have alternate Saturday(2nd and 4th) off.
So I am working 9*6 = 54 hours per week for 1st and 3rd week of the month while 9*5 = 45 hours for 2nd and 4th week.
Is there anybody here who have same working situation like me ?
Regards
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It's like oysters: only when there is an "R" in the month.
And I hate oysters.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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