Of all the nerve!

What are people thinking?

I'm destitute, trying to find ways to keep a roof over my head and earn an honest living, and people are treating me with such disrespect. Don't they get it? 

I've been rejected more than a dozen times for offering to provide free housesitting and pet-sitting for which I used to get paid a nice hourly rate, so I give up. When I hired pet-sitters in 2005 to look in on my 2 cats for a day I paid $25 a visit, two visits per day. Now I'm being rejected over and over when I offer to look after pets 24 hours a day... for free! Go figure.

And on a daily basis I get requests from strangers who say they want to be "friends." That usually turns out to mean they want me to come to their home (even drive hundreds of miles to get there), spend a month of my time de-cluttering, painting and staging it so it sells fast and for more money, but they don't offer me payment or even a place to stay. One man (who owns two homes) said to me (who you know is homeless): "I can't pay you; money is very tight." I explained my financial situation to him, and I never heard from him again. I hope he was ashamed of his intent to exploit me.

 One man promised me "some money" when the house sells. That could be 6 months from now and "some money" could mean $50 in his mind for 160 hours' worth of my heavy labor, or he could take it off the market and he could rationalize that he doesn't have to pay for all the work I did. I suspect he will get his realtor to do the work for free before he takes his home off the market. (I have good reason to believe he will.) Tsk, tsk.

I am so disgusted by the way I've been treated. Or should I say, how people behave with such an unreasonable expectation of entitlement. This is arrogance and disrespect to the max. News flash, guys: Slavery in the United States was abolished in 1865!  (Yes, these people will be in my book.)

And if the above scenarios aren't bad enough, I'm also receiving requests from strangers that I send them money so they can spend it on promotion of their self-published novels. Are they kidding me? I'm homeless and people I have never heard of want me to subsidize their careers? But are they willing to buy my books - at a reduced price, no less - so they can learn how to secure funds for their publishing projects? Of course not. They refuse to spend less than $10, but want me to throw bigger money at them with no expectation of return? Hah!

If someone isn't willing to invest in their own education so they can learn how to raise money as I did, they aren't worthy of anyone's investment.