what do i do?a disabled guys quest

I just wondered, if you can get a job earning more then $280, and your able for the work, why dont you get one? I mean if you break it down, your getting $70 a week, Surely in a small part time job you could earn $100 pw? Over the course of a month thats an extra $120. Thats money you could put towards your college funds or your investment business plan…

Or, honestly, can you apply for Social Security Disability?

Can’t work because you can’t spend too much time on your feet? Shit. If I didn’t have to get up and get coffee every half hour, I would never leave my cubicle.

Seriously though. I don’t see how your disability would prevent you from a job as an analyst or stockbroker. Brokers basically sit all day making phone calls and analysts basically sit all day and look at charts and graphs. It’s not like most jobs in finance or banking require a great deal of physical prowess anyway.

Let me ask you something: What do you want to make money for?

Remember that at the end of the day, U.S. money is just a stack of green paper. Even if you fund your idea to trade stocks from home, where does that get you? You’re in your house (due to your self-termed “phobia” – which I put in quotes not because I question your honesty but because I don’t know that it actually qualifies as a phobia), you’re isolated, and you’re alone. Who cares what size your bank account is?

If you like the stock market and think you have a talent for it, think about going to school and getting a degree in finance or marketing. You could go into banking, you could manage funds – you could even have the fun of playing the market with other people’s money instead of (or in addition to) your own. You would also be meeting other people, having other experiences, and learning a lot more about your area of interest than you ever will picking stocks at home. And most importantly – you’ll be out of your house.

I’m not patronizing you when I tell you that being a teenager can be really tough, even for those of us who made it through unscathed (physically, at least). And I don’t know a 17-year-old who doesn’t think being rich isn’t the absolute (and only) key to happiness. It isn’t. If you had all the money in the world, what would you do then? Couldn’t you try to do some of those things now?

It’s none of my business, and so you certainly don’t have to reply, but I guess I don’t have enough information to see why you’re being home-schooled and why you feel you can’t get a job. It seems to me those are the two things you really seem to need to do – because you sound really isolated, which is almost never a good thing. And respectfully – if your insurance company is paying you benefits for lost wages, allow me to gently point out two things: (1) those benefits are intended for when you can’t work, and you’re not actually supposed to refrain from working just to continue to receive them; and (2) they’re eventually run out anyway.

I can see why your talent for the stock market is something you want to pursue. I believe strongly that people who have gifts (or think they do) should honor those gifts by working for them and with them. But I’d suggest you look at the bigger picture of what you’d like out of your hopefully long and healthy life, and ask yourself is hiding inside day-trading is going to get you those things.

Stay strong. :slight_smile:

and wishing you all the best brad_dg

See…I think that may be a bigger disability for you than your burnt foot. It doesn’t sound like there isn’t anything that would physically prevent you from going to college or working.

No one is going to give you money to sit around your house and daytrade. If you are serious about a career in equities, you need to go to school. Simple as that.

I’m sorry … I want to be a better person, but in reading the tone and content of the OP I really don’t get the flavor that this is a real 17 or 18 year old burn victim looking for how to get started in investment. I’m sure there of plenty of horrific, heart wrenching pics and possibly even a website you can deliver at a moments notice to substantiate your OP, but the tone of the OP, which the author has apparently posted to numerous message boards, seems a lot more focused on generating sympathy for a horrific ordeal than in soliciting how to get started advice.

I just don’t think a real 17 or 18 year old boy with an injury like the one you describe would spend anywhere near the amount of time on the accident and injury details you dwell on, but would get to the point quickly of how they can move forward.

Maybe I am completely off base and you are exactly who you represent yourself to be, but this really smells like the prelude to a soft touch scam of some sort.

Well, I think if you take the OP apart, the reason people aren’t feeling really comfortable with this is because the OP never asked for advice or assistance with how to pursue this as he later claimed he did. He said he was ready to start but needed money. Not advice, not shared experiences but money.
And as far as not being able to work because he can’t be on his feet. Ummm, I think that a lot of people who are employed who also happen to rely on wheelchairs just might disagree with that.

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*Originally posted by Jodi *
…You’re in your house (due to your self-termed “phobia” – which I put in quotes not because I question your honesty but because I don’t know that it actually qualifies as a phobia), you’re isolated, and you’re alone. Who cares what size your bank account is?../QUOTE]

Oh, it qualifies as a phobia, believe me. It can keep a person housebound, isolated for decades. But, it can be overcome by a combination of medication and cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Anyone with this problem need not be locked away forever. Ask for help, because the difference in life afterwards is simply amazing.

What **astro ** said.

And if it’s all true, Brad, sorry about all your troubles, but you need to continue to work on you rehab and senior year. You’ll have plenty of time to become an investor or whatever it is you want to do when you grow up.

And where are your parents?

Did you a get Social Service worker in the hospital to give you a referral to a therapist to talk about your phobias? As a legal child, under 18, I would think there would be a lot of services available to you due to the tramatic and sudden nature of your injuries. Have your parents look into this.