Re: [QUAD-L] social security

[TonyPony1]

In a message dated 2/6/2005 12:07:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Wow, you make 3k more than I do just in disability.  I should have claimed more tips waiting tables.  I still don't blame you.  I'm not sure if I'd be allowed to keep my benefits. With what I'll be doing I'm probably going to make too much.  At least I hope to make a good amount.  My degree will be in social work with psychology minor.  I might do a double major.  I have to see b/c I might need more credits and if I do then double major it is.  Depending on city, type or work, etc.. social workers make between 25k and 47k a year.  I am not knocking anyone for sticking with disability.   I don't know what lies on the road ahead of me. It's still a couple of years off.  I'll just have to see. I'd like to build up on my benefits so if something happens to me it will be more than what I get now.  I hope to buy a house one day and I am sure my cost of living will be a bit more.  I'm not going to go crazy but I want more for myself than this.  I barely get buy as it is and some months don't make it at all.  I'd love to get a part time job but in order to get help from DORS I have to go to school full time and there is no way I can do both. 

I'm getting some pretty tough arms though pushing through the campus.  I have 15 mins inbetween classes a couple of days and the classes are kinda far apart.  I push my ass off the first half then start to run out of gas.  A couple of more weeks, it'll be nothing then I'll be getting all buff. LOL.

Stacy

Stacyyyy...more power to ya, baby!!  Every situation is different, and i thought like you for many years, but finally decided, i don't want to lose my benefits...just add to them.  My hands aren't good, so there's few jobs i can do...i got a degree in Mass Communications from USF...i went to school for damn near 10 yrs, but found it very hard to fit in jobs where i could use my degree.  So, the part-time job became my avenue....i'm a pushing quad, and it's a whole different world than a power chair quad, but i love it....it keeps me strong n healthy, i think!!

Anyway, i wish you luck...school is a major btch, and takes determination. 

-tony c5c6