Will work for money!

[SamIam]

OK, I'm really strapped for cash and right now all I have is my SSDI and the part time motel job (14 pathetic hours/week). My monthly income is so small that if I put it all in cash, I could easily stick it all up a rat's ass.

I have been to Colorado Voc Rehab, tried to get on the Ticket to Work Program, etc.,etc. Everyone is understaffed due to state budget cuts and it's next to impossible to get help from them.

So here's some of my thoughts:

1) Sign up to deliver phone books in Durango in June - temp fix - that job lasts about a week.

2) Put up notices on bulletin boards and the paper that I am available as a sort of Jill of all trades: I can care for people's gardens, pet sit, clean houses, prepare meals for the elderly, even tutor kids 1st grade through 8th to help them get their study skills up over the summer, since I have a college degree and have worked with school-age children before.

3) Take a seasonal job as a gardener or whatever up in wealthy Telluride. The average pay for seasonal work there is $13.00/hr and they give a bonus if you last out the season. They even provide a shuttle for workers who live in Cortez. But this is a temp fix, also. Gardening jobs will vanish in September, and it may adversely impact my SSDI which I would need to get through the winter.

4) Begging. Stand on a busy street corner with a sign which reads "NEED WORK BAD!" I doubt if that would get me a job, but I suppose people would give me spare change. Unfortunately/fortunately, I'd be far to embarrassed to do this.

Any other brain storming ideas?

Help!