Desperate for literally any help

FULFILLED

This is my second time posting here. My job recently fired me mostly to prevent paying for my leave during a surgery I had earlier this month. My roommate conned me out of all my savings and stole everything of value I could have pawned. I’ve worked since I was a teenager, despite epilepsy and acute mental health disorders I’ve never been this long without an income before. My primary career path is human services, I’ve done a lot of community out reach and work with teenagers with mental health concerns. I’ve reached out to my university and my therapist, social workers, welfare, 211, local charities, everything seems like it’s a dead end no one wants to help me. I’ve been trying all the survey sites and beer money suggestions but none I’ve found seem to actually pay out ever. I have no where left to turn for anything even better advice would be greatly appreciated. I know items are more popular but we just don’t desperately need anything physical currently. I need utilities on and bus fare and security.

Posted Sep 27, 2019, 11:49 PM UTC

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die4creamyjalapenoregistered•

I am broke or I would help you financially but I wanted to tell you that QuickThoughts is a decent app for making some money. You do surveys, each one is $2. Every $10 you get you can cash out for an iTunes gift card (Apple) or an Amazon gift card (Android). You can then sell the gift card codes on Reddit or in person or anywhere else you can, really. I have been able to get a gift card multiple days in a row before just by working on surveys for a little bit each day. It may not seem like much but if you earn one gift card every day for a week straight and then sell the gift cards for $9 each you could have $64 in just a week! Best of luck to you!

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Dawn22363•

That’s a good idea!

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theochocolate•

I'm sorry I can't help with cash at the moment. I would if I could.

I have tried a lot of beermoney sites. There are a lot of junk sites out there, but some good ones. The ones that actually reliably pay for me are Quickthoughts, Prolific, Crowdtap, Qmee, and (if you have a student email) Paytime. Amazon mturk gets me a little here and there also. Keep in mind that many of these apps pay out in gift cards. Prolific and Qmee use PayPal, and Paytime gives you a prepaid Visa you can use for online purchases. It won't be enough to pay all the bills, but it'll be some help.

I hope things start looking up soon.

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allsunnydaze•

Do you have a $ amount that would help, even a little?

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TomDankEngineOPregistered•

I’m honestly at the point even a dollar or two would help a lot, I could at least catch a bus and keep trying to accuse resources

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allsunnydaze•

Do you have cash app? Or how would I send you some help?

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TomDankEngineOPregistered•

I have cash app. I can pm you my cash app name

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allsunnydaze•

Please do :)

Done - take care, don't give up, just keep going and things will get better :)

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TomDankEngineOPregistered•

Yes I live in America and you’re right the systems are essentially all loops of running in circles with smoke and mirrors. But they’re also the go to suggestions for everyone and every post and that one in ten thousand people who reach out might get help from one or navigate correctly. My point was that I had exhausted all charitable and local aide with no help

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TomDankEngineOPregistered•

I’m insanely allergic to bed bugs which I learned in a shelter as a teenager. There’s also issues with theft, abuse from staff, issues with other residents, lack of beds etc. like many shelters aren’t a better alternative than outside. It’s sad

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