Thread by @Tracey_Resistor

A Thread:
A year ago, I was working (underemployed). I rented and had approx $36000 in assets.
Landlord decided not to renew lease after 4 years.
Not a bad tenant. Always paid rent, and no damage to property.
Paid rent throughout covid, without even a thought.

Car broke down with major repairs and it was essential for my job as a support worker, transporting customers.
I consequently lost my job.
No one would rent to me due to low/lack of income.
Public housing waiting list over 10 years.
Became homeless.
Everything went into storage.

After a couple of days on streets, mentally broken I found my way to start couch surfing.
I had a plan to retrain, get work and fix my car, and get life happening again.
I used my jobseeker payments to pay off my current loan and debts...

And paying the food shop for whoever I was staying with that week because I was grateful for the shelter for myself and my dog.
After travel, medicine and storage of possessions, I would have nothing left each fortnight. So slowly my assets were sold off to cover costs.

Last week I sold my now unregistered, undriveable car for what I paid in annual registration for it.
I've lost everything except my dog and a bag of clothes, and basic furniture in storage.
I have less than $2000 debt to pay off.
I now have certification and licensing...

To work in a field I was told was guaranteed full time employment by my job provider and a company that said they would hire me on agreement I completed the program I was offered.
I had hope and truly believed I would have my own place by Xmas, be working full time.
Be living.

Now this company has decided they will only offer me a casual contract with no guarantee of work. I'll be covering others shifts.
I'll have to remain on jobseeker, and continue to look for other work.
I've been applying for permanent work, because I need that in order to....

Obtain housing.
Casual work will not get me a rental property in the current climate.
I'm 52. Fled DV 12 years ago, with just a bag of clothes and 4 kids.
I worked hard to comeback from nothing. Raised my kids who all had severe trauma, faced my ex in court and put him in...

Prison for the crimes he committed against myself and our children.
I advocated and volunteered for other survivors to find life after DV.
I worked really hard to become a contributing part of my community.
To live independently and comfortably.

Now, I'm treated as a statistic. I fall outside the criteria for services to assist. I don't have young children, so no emergency housing.
I have a dog that I will not give up. My ex killed our pets to prove his death threats. My dog is everything to me.

She has been my rock in my darkest moments.
So I cannot use homeless shelters.
I'm tired. I don't choose to be on jobseeker.
Yet many people seem to think I'm a bludger.
I've worked my butt off to the point my health suffered. I worked hard to get healthy again.

And still, it's not enough. In the government's eye, I'm a burden to be left behind.
To tax payers, I'm a burden to be forgotten.
To landlords I'm a risk not worth taking.
I worked so hard to become nothing, to have nothing but a heartbeat and the only thing keeping me going..

Is my dog.
I see people posting about how ungrateful the unemployed are, and they don't work hard enough to improve their situation.
I see people posting how hard it is for people who worked hard and deserve their $120,000 pa wage and pensioners and unemployed don't have it...

That bad because they didn't work hard enough.
I'm sick of being told I don't work hard enough to fix my situation.
I've worked my damn arse off, doing everything and more asked of me by govt services and its only made me worse off.
I'm not even living.

I'm fighting to survive and stay alive.
For everyone who is comfortably living, going to work and thinking you are where you are because of your hard work, and others who are struggling are there because they deserve it, think again.
I don't do drugs, I don't drink

I don't buy avocado sandwiches or lattes at cafes every day.
I don't support small businesses because I can't afford to. I don't even treat myself to either occasionally. Because I can't afford to.

I have a smartphone because it's an essential item to obtain Centrelink jobseeker and meet my requirements with my job provider. It's essential as 99.9% of job applications are done online. It's essential when you have no permanent address.

This world, it's people and governments have grown apathetic to those who face true hardship and adversity.
Those that have the power to change people lives and improve their situation just don't care. They think it doesn't affect them, but it does.

The government wasted around $10,000 this year on me alone to retrain me in order for me to obtain full time work. The company, started in Australia, now owned internationally and used by government reneged on its promise. As the job provider system changed July 1st,

So did any previous agreements with employers offering work through programs.
Companies benefit from these programs and receive money from government to pay wages to those on the program for the 1st 6 months. It's essentially free Labor.

They work in unison with the government to get free workers. After 6 months they terminate those workers, and take on new workers it's why there are so many casual jobs available.
They spread the hours out amongst the workers, so the workers have to rely on...

Income supplement from the government, keeping them in the system and moving them from company to company, all at the expense of tax payers money.

It's time that those who have not used govt unemployment services know exactly what is happening and how their taxes are being spent, and not listening to govt and MSM lies that unemployed are bludger. It's a rort between large companies and govt for free labour.

Slaves on a conveyor belt line. Stuck in a system. Worse is that disabled not on DSP are on the conveyor belt too. It's cruel and all in the name for high end profit
#RaiseTheRate
#StopTheRort
#CeaseJSPGrift

Thank you for all your replies. I'm overwhelmed and humble.
I'm in WA, Perth metro area.
I don't have a gofundme. I'd rather not. I want changes made to help everyone, not just me.
I want a liveable wage.
I want to work.
If anyone knows of f/time work... dm me please.