Survival, Recovery For Brian,Morgan
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My name is Brian Vaughan, & my other half is Morgan O'Conner (legal name Ms. N. McKenzie).
I am trying to raise money for our continued survival, & also to keep taking care of our 4 cats. Because I got laid off from my job of 9 years in June 2015, we are in danger of being homeless & losing all we have by sometime in the spring of 2016 (we ended up making it through the holiday season of 2015 because I got a temporary job for 6 weeks, & Morgan had some extra work with a restaurant job which is only a few days a month). We are just working class folks. What happens to our cats is also a big concern.
Due to the economy & job market being the way it is since 2009, I have not even been contacted by any employers yet, even though I have been submitting many resumes & applications these past several months.
Not even one interview has resulted, & all the jobs I applied for were things I would qualify for (Update: I did get interviewed & hired for the seasonal job I mentioned above in mid November 2015, but what I said about what was happening before then is still true). Morgan has not been able to get anything but seasonal part time employment through temporary agencies since early 2009, after the old job, Shutterfly, moved to Phoenix, Arizona.
I also need some medical checkups done, it's been many years & I have had some health issues since May 2015 (something is going on with my kidneys). I've been taking care of myself, I'm still functioning, but should get some help. Medi-Cal has been impossible to get in 8 months, I've tried.
The money donated will mostly be used to keep us & the cats surviving ubtil we can both get full time jobs again, I can get my health issue checked out & addressed, keep the family car working good, & keep needed services going (P.G. & E., internet & phone, to find jobs, etc.). I had to replace a computer with a used one in late January 2016, putting us in more risk with disappearing money.
I am also a musician & recording engineer, & part of the local East Bay music scene. I need some of the money to have some good recording equipment cleaned & restored, because those items got some heavy soot deposits from a fire in an apartment below our old place in October 2007. So we have also been disaster victims. Before this happened I was helping other musicians produce albums, by doing recording on location, working with recordings they supplied, mixing, editing, & mastering. All 4 of my aged computers need something fixed in them, too. Without repairs I will not be able to do any new work. I have the goal to be able to do this all again, & with survival will be able to offer services to my local community of musicians, as well as give donors free copies of my own works, if they like what I do.
We needed at least $5,000 of the amount being requested by the end of 2015 to safely make it through early 2016. We are now facing the possiblity of becoming homeless, or worse, in approximately 3 months or less, it's getting too close. If we end up like that, there will be no hope of any recovery, you can't get a job without an address, & once in that position, our demise must soon be following, that is specifically, death. We have nowhere to go & no-one to take care of us if we are deprived of the opportunities to do for ourselves.
This means a lot to me because we always helped others we have known when we could, we want to be able to keep what we have & be able to help again, we need to survive.
We will be very thankful if this succeeds because we will not meet a premature ending.
I am trying to raise money for our continued survival, & also to keep taking care of our 4 cats. Because I got laid off from my job of 9 years in June 2015, we are in danger of being homeless & losing all we have by sometime in the spring of 2016 (we ended up making it through the holiday season of 2015 because I got a temporary job for 6 weeks, & Morgan had some extra work with a restaurant job which is only a few days a month). We are just working class folks. What happens to our cats is also a big concern.
Due to the economy & job market being the way it is since 2009, I have not even been contacted by any employers yet, even though I have been submitting many resumes & applications these past several months.
Not even one interview has resulted, & all the jobs I applied for were things I would qualify for (Update: I did get interviewed & hired for the seasonal job I mentioned above in mid November 2015, but what I said about what was happening before then is still true). Morgan has not been able to get anything but seasonal part time employment through temporary agencies since early 2009, after the old job, Shutterfly, moved to Phoenix, Arizona.
I also need some medical checkups done, it's been many years & I have had some health issues since May 2015 (something is going on with my kidneys). I've been taking care of myself, I'm still functioning, but should get some help. Medi-Cal has been impossible to get in 8 months, I've tried.
The money donated will mostly be used to keep us & the cats surviving ubtil we can both get full time jobs again, I can get my health issue checked out & addressed, keep the family car working good, & keep needed services going (P.G. & E., internet & phone, to find jobs, etc.). I had to replace a computer with a used one in late January 2016, putting us in more risk with disappearing money.
I am also a musician & recording engineer, & part of the local East Bay music scene. I need some of the money to have some good recording equipment cleaned & restored, because those items got some heavy soot deposits from a fire in an apartment below our old place in October 2007. So we have also been disaster victims. Before this happened I was helping other musicians produce albums, by doing recording on location, working with recordings they supplied, mixing, editing, & mastering. All 4 of my aged computers need something fixed in them, too. Without repairs I will not be able to do any new work. I have the goal to be able to do this all again, & with survival will be able to offer services to my local community of musicians, as well as give donors free copies of my own works, if they like what I do.
We needed at least $5,000 of the amount being requested by the end of 2015 to safely make it through early 2016. We are now facing the possiblity of becoming homeless, or worse, in approximately 3 months or less, it's getting too close. If we end up like that, there will be no hope of any recovery, you can't get a job without an address, & once in that position, our demise must soon be following, that is specifically, death. We have nowhere to go & no-one to take care of us if we are deprived of the opportunities to do for ourselves.
This means a lot to me because we always helped others we have known when we could, we want to be able to keep what we have & be able to help again, we need to survive.
We will be very thankful if this succeeds because we will not meet a premature ending.
Organizer
Brian David Vaughan
Organizer
Hayward, CA
