Posted by just plain jane on December 25, 2004, at 17:39:33
In reply to Do you work outside the home?, posted by Angel Girl on December 23, 2004, at 16:58:19
I work inside and outside my home. However, in the context which you are speaking, I believe you mean working for gainful employment in a location other than home.
Do you mean to exclude those who do their gainful jobs at home from "at home" in your question?
I worked outside the home, at the local school, as a volunteer for five years. Does this, although not a paid job, constitute working outside the home in your context?
I worked in my home writing articles and features for which I gathered my information by attending meetings and events and interviewing people and photographing, the results of which I sent to my employer, a newspaper, via the internet. Does this constitute working outside the home in the context you used?
Having been diagnosed (whoopee) as suffering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from multiple traumas, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Anxiety/Panic, Agoraphobia, and a lovely catch-all: PD NOS, Personality Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified, I have been judged 100% Disabled and Individually Unemployable by VA.
I could, however, write for gainful employment, as having a disordered personality did not prevent it before the doctor decided what my disorders were. I believe it facilitated it.
Where was I now? (scrolling back up to the topic)
I labor outside and inside my home doing the things most people pay others to do: carpentry, repairs on plumbing, electrical, heating, appliance repair, remodeling, redecorating. All the chores involved in having nine dogs and three horses. Will be building a house come spring.
When I do these things for others, they pay me.
Does doing these things myself instead of paying to have them done qualify as my working outside the home?
Geez, I'm glad they've pegged me as 100% Disabled.
My problem with "normal" working for other people jobs is the control factor. A huge factor in my disorders is having had others control me, causing traumatic situations and forcefully keeping me in them. The lifelong fallout from that makes normal employment intolerable after a point. By which time my disorders have done their dirty work and convinced people I am, truly, just plain nuts anyway.
So this is a divergent subthread.
Will you check my groceries?
just plain jane
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