p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" Now out of the mental hospital and living with his parents Jimmy started to think about his future. His vocational counselor told him to apply for disability because he had schizophrenia. Jimmy applied, but was rejected. He was told in his rejection letter that he should get one of the many easy jobs out there. For you see, even though Jimmy was now 29 years old he had never had a job. Whoops./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"A neighbor told Jimmy about a job opening at the local golf course. It involved being on the maintenance crew. Jimmy applied and somehow got the job. Unfortunately, he hated it. It was boring and he wasn't very good at it. After a month he quit./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"His vocational counselor then told him about a housekeeping job at a local motel. Jimmy got the job and hated it even more than the last job. He couldn't manage to make the beds without lumps. Jimmy quit after two days./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Several months later Jimmy gave it another try. He got a job at Alco stocking shelves. Again, he hated the job but felt that he had to stick it out. Whenever customers asked him where something was Jimmy never knew the answer. He began to hate the customers with all their questions. After one month he was fired for sucking at the job./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Jimmy gave up. After his parents died he figured that he could either kill himself or become homeless. He didn't want to become homeless, so he thought that he would jump off a cliff to his death after he no longer had anyone to support him./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"A year passed and Jimmy got a new vocational counselor. She got him to start applying for jobs again. He was hired by the local newspaper to stuff inserts into the paper. This Jimmy could do. A month passed and Jimmy didn't quit because he liked this new job and he wasn't fired because he was good at it. Things were looking up./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The job at the paper was only part-time, so Jimmy applied for disability again. After appealing and reapplying several times Jimmy got on disability. Between his part-time job and disability payments Jimmy had enough money to live on. He abandoned his plan to kill himself after his parents' death./spanspan id="docs-internal-guid-e9b0b1d2-7fff-c38f-f141-2a1eecad86d1"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-indent: 36pt; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The End/span/p