As an Army Ranger during the nam conflict .. I Learned how to survive!
Every survival skill that I had learned served me well while I was going through that experience.
I can GUARANTEE you that Without a home or transportation, living in Fort Lauderdale, Florida at the time that .. You would Not be working a ‘normal’ job or three ‘normal’ jobs at the time!
You would do Anything to get yourself back into the ‘normal’ flow, get transportation first, (which I then slept in) and after that your prospects for Real work would present itself!
Nobody wanted someone who they didn’t think could be relied on to report for work, If they didn’t have reliable transportation.
This is South Florida that I’m talking about and it’s a Rattlesnake for the down and out!
And .. Unless your pride gets in the way .. You Would eat some ‘nicely boxed’ and still warm pizza from a pizza hut dumpster .. when you got hungry enough!
I didn’t say that the pizza were just slices, thrown away on a trash pile.
They were always boxed and warm! 8)
but during those difficult times... did you ever consider yourself middle class?
unlikely.
odds are, you felt yourself sliding and was fighting to rectify as best you could.
which would be my original statement.