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Today I learned you can work and collect disability at the same time 🤔
Not only that, but are educated in a job that would be “too hard” to bother with.
Veterinary Technician jobs that pay $30/hr plus are very few and far between. It's a very physically and emotionally demanding career. I can see why it may not be feasible.
OP, idk where you're located, but you may be able to find a research job that pays in that range in either a rodent or aquaculture facility which could get you into that pay range and be a bit less physically demanding than clinic work.
So, if you get paid from a job, disability payments go down. Working a job comes with costs. Financial costs like transportation, clothes/equipment, etc, but also physical costs like needing to lift, bend, stand, sit, etc in ways that can be physically stressful, and then mental costs like needing to focus.
I can't speak to OP's circumstances, but many disabled people can work part-time, or only do certain tasks typically required for a job. Like, I know someone with chronic back pain who works at a grocery store part-time. They can stock shelves for lighter items only, but even then, more than 15hrs/week and they're causing so much stress on their bad back that they lose function.
If someone working more means they worsen chronic health conditions, and/or they wind up with less income overall, then yeah, it's not worth it. Keep in mind, in most provinces disability support rates are so low they'd need to double to reach the poverty line. It's not like people on disability are living lavish lifestyles.
I believe the person means the job they are educated in is beyond their capability with their disability. Stop hating on people with disabilities. Injuries and disabilities can come up at any time for anyone.
Go take a look at suicide rates for vet techs. And the physicality of it means they very well could mean the actual physical job is too hard for them as a disabled person. Not everyone can lift a 100lb dog that doesn't wanna get lifted so it's flailing around.
What do you mean by that
Fully educated and trained for a decent paying job, yet it's "too much work"
School is very different from work. I'm a social worker that works with ppl with disabilities and a lot of them have post secondary diplomas or degrees for jobs that they could never actually work in. We also don't know what OPs disability is. Perhaps she became disabled after her schooling. Maybe she is in a wheelchair. Don't be so quick to dismiss or assume the worst of ppl.
Vets don't get paid decently for what they do, just an FYI.