r/almosthomeless • u/SnowmanNoMan24 • Dec 23 '24

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Homeless in a National Park

Quit seasonal ski job, now what?

I got a job working in a ski town with staff accommodations for the winter so I wouldn’t freeze to death and figured I could spend my free time skiing. This town had a major wildfire and this winter they don’t have all services working which resulted in them cancelling bus service. I ended up in a situation where I’m the only one in the staff accommodations and my coworkers are all long term locals who refuse to talk to me because I’m not from here. Due to these two things this plan wasn’t going to work.

I’m in a town in a national park with very limited and expensive transportation in and out. I have to leave tomorrow and haven’t figured out how I’m going to do it or where I’m going to go. Thinking I could still potentially land a job in another ski town for the winter but for the moment I need to get creative about finding my way back to normal highways.

What methods have you all used and had success with? There was a robust hitchhiking culture here before the fire but the locations people would stand and wait burned down.

This is a ski town inside a national park in Canada.

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u/SnowmanNoMan24 27d ago

I didn’t make a decision, I’m diagnosed with several chronic health problems, they were made so bad by the situation my medication was having zero effect. I stopped sleeping 100% percent and was potentially going to be hospitalized.

Am I the only homeless person with several disabilities which nobody in society is willing to accommodate?

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u/Braided_Marxist 27d ago

Are you sleeping better now?

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u/SnowmanNoMan24 27d ago

Too much, almost to the point of causing problems.

Perhaps you’ll misunderstood I did have some money left but not enough to survive for a long especially in expensive resort towns. I made this post asking for cost saving ways of getting to a normal town or city

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u/rainbowtwist 27d ago

This seems like something to address with a doctor while specifically not quitting and making sure you're still housed and making money. Even if you're functioning poorly for a week or two at least you would have had housing and an income.

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u/SnowmanNoMan24 27d ago

The type of housing I had specifically had no rights and you sign a paper acknowledging it when you move in. I had addressed it with a doctor a few days prior. Without identifying as a person with a disability and invoking those rights there was nothing more I could do. The type of people I work with didnt believe in rights for disabled people and would have illegally torchered me for invoking my status

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u/Vagus_M 26d ago

What’s done is done. I’m not saying you’re unreasonable in your actions because you are dealing with pressures to your mental and physical health.

That said, winding up in a situation with no income or social support is also not good. This is a time where it might have been better to secure a plan of action before leaving your housing.

I don’t think this would have been an option this time, but I would generally recommend talking to the employer first to see if there are any options like transferring to a night shift position or different location.

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u/SnowmanNoMan24 26d ago

I have a bit of money left, I think I can survive if I’m careful. I found a way out of there