I'm a 100% service-connected disabled vet. I also receive SSDI.
Thank you for all you do each and every day. I appreciate the hours of your life you spent contributing to the big hamster wheel.
Whatever your job. Janitor, Fast Food, Walmart, construction, truck driver, electricians, actuary, accountant, lawyer, doctor,. every one who works.
You guys get up and give hours of your life each day. Often times more of your life is spent working than actually living your life. Some bust their asses their entire lives and barely (if at all) have just enough money to die on. Your hands are calloused, leathery and tough. your back hurting from the day before. Your muscles are sore and you might have a cold or the flu, but you keep pushing and doing what you feel you must to put food on the table and provide quality of life to you and your families (I appreciate you too single workers)
36M married 17 years with three kids. I used to be EOD. I used to be an attorney. But I'm completely fucked mentally and physically now. I spend once or twice a year in the psych ward. I can barely socialize without getting in fights. Even my own family gets scared of when I rage out. I almost lost my family.
But even though it took 12 years, I finally got the VA to award me 100%
I'm so mentally unstable that Social Security approved me the first time which meant I didn't need to hire a lawyer to appeal. When the SSDI finally gave monthly benefits + year and a half back pay –it was all the first time in a very long time that I didn't feel like the poster child for Murphy's law.
But I'm not ignorant. The money my family and I get is taxpayers money. So the hours of your life are helping me pay for the hours of my life.
Your our sacrifice and contributions are not lost on me.
And my family and I truly appreciate you guys and I am more than grateful for each and every one of you.
I hope you all get raises and phat bonuses and all the good shit you folks deserve, and that your family's stay healthy.
Tips hat
For those who are disabled or become disabled. Channel blaming yourself for being weak and pathetic into lifting others up who support you. Idk if this post helps me deal with all the shit I myself have going on health wise, but it's better than sitting around hating myself for not being able to meet the status quo.