Ask Lemmy

Yeah, food service was actually something I considered suggesting, because it also gives you access to cheap/free food. But it’s also hell on your body, leaves you/your clothes feeling disgusting after every shift, and ties you down to a specific place.

One of the only real perks to being homeless is that you’re able to freely travel without needing to maintain something like a house or pay rent. So you could likely pack up and be a drifter, while working from home on a laptop. Don’t tell the employer about your financial situation, simply tell them you travel a lot and enjoy the freedom that WFH provides.

If anyone questions it, just say the van life was appealing because you wanted to travel. That goes back to the “fitting in is extremely hard if people suspect you’re homeless” thing, because people tend to get judgey and/or avoid you if you’re homeless. People seem to think it’s contagious. So being able to work from a laptop at least offers the “I wanted to travel” excuse if anyone gets too pushy about it. It makes it seem intentional, rather than being something you were forced into. And that tends to be received much better. People will tend to go “I thought about doing that but I have too many things keeping me here” instead of avoiding you.

But yeah, to go back to your point… Regardless of what the job is, some income is vastly better than none.