Homeless UCLA PhD student

Discussion in 'General Distance Learning Discussions' started by warguns, Jan 7, 2016.

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  1. warguns

    warguns Member

  2. cookderosa

    cookderosa Resident Chef

    he's not embarrassed, he's not sad, and he is willing to sacrifice for his dream job. Winning! Americans are such snobs.
     
  3. FTFaculty

    FTFaculty Well-Known Member

    For a time during the Great Depression, my mother lived with her mother, father and brother in a car. They eventually got a place to live because my grandfather was willing to work and did not simply give up in despair. This young man will excel because he has the same attitude.
     
  4. Neuhaus

    Neuhaus Well-Known Member

    I knew this guy in the Navy who retired after 22 years. He spent his first year of retirement living on the beach while keeping a few items in a storage locker. If the weather got too bad he stayed in a hotel. Otherwise, he was living on the beach full time.

    Consider he was receiving his pension so even the occasional hotel room barely put a dent in his finances. He was pretty open about it when I talked to him about it years later. Yeah, he could have used his pension to pay for a place to live. But it would have just covered rent (if at all) in the beach town where he chose to "settle." So he would have needed a job to have any kind of "stable" lifestyle. He didn't want a job and bills. He wanted to take some time off, not have anyone tell him what to do (for the first time in 22 years), surf all day and eat shrimp by a fire at night.

    Legally he was "homeless" even if he didn't fit the profile of what we consider to be homeless. He also wasn't destitute which society normally considers to be a necessary condition of homelessness.

    Heck, even Dr. Phil McGraw claims to have had the experience of living in a car with his father (while his father was a psych intern).
     
  5. TEKMAN

    TEKMAN Semper Fi!

    There was a Sergeant in the Marine Corps. He received BAH (Single) and live in his truck by putting the tent on the back of his truck. And he parked on the beach parking lot at Camp Pendleton. He saved all his money on the final year of his 4 year enlistment. He used work facility for hygiene; while eating at the Chow Hall buffet style for cheap. When I tried to do the same thing, but my Commander required to show paying rent. As a single holds a rank of Sergeant in an infantry unit, your working hour more likely to be 5:00 A.M to 10:00 P.M most of the time.
     

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