Ever wondered, what do homeless people do all day with themselves?

Being homeless in my live for three long years (due to my heart attacks,) was the hardest challenge I ever faced in my life. I still remember that day I wound up homeless, it easy to remember, because that was the day I had my first heart attack.

It was the 2nd week of December 2105, I don't remember that exact day, because I didn't know I had, had a heart attack.

I was sick with what I thought was a bad flu for about 3 weeks and when I finally went to the ER at my local hospital, that was when the doctors told me they were admitting me because I had, had a silent heart attack. 

I was in the hospital for about a week because it really hit me mentally as well, having a heart attack at only age 50 I became majorly depressed. Because I wasn't ready to die and that was what I was thinking about, because both my grandfathers had died of heart attacks in the early fifties in age.

Anyway while I was in the hospital my landlord rented out my apartment right from under my feet. That is how I wound up homeless, lost my job (employer fired me because she said she didn't want me having another heart attack and dying at her business.)

So back to the question in the title of this post. What do you do all day if you are homeless and you have nothing but the clothes on your back. Trying to find a job is near impossible, because you barriers that prevent you from being able to hold down a job, such as finding a place to sleep at night and transportation to one said job...so looking for work is a no go.

One reason this is, is because without an address so to speak, it is very hard to gage your transportation to and from a job. And if you do get a job, finding a home can become next to impossible. Because your working and you can't take time off from your new job, to go looking for a place to live.

Even if your staying at a homeless shelter, there are time limits you can stay at the shelter (I got kicked out in the middle of winter with cardiac issues and no place to go, because my time at a homeless shelter was up.)

When your literally on the streets, finding food to eat is a top priority, which means lining up for hours each day in soup kitchen lines, just to eat that day.

And lining up for hours a each day, just to get a warm/dry and safe place to sleep for the night is a priority. But sometimes you're shit out of look, because the space is full...so you try to catch a couple hours sleep at a 24 hour dinner But your constantly woken up by staff.

Libraries are the best place to hang out in during the day, because it is warm, safe and dry, plus they have internet and computer available for use for housing search and shelter space.

Day labour and panhandling (begging for money are your only options for making cash.) But when you have health issues like I did (4 heart attacks in this 3 and half year time of being homeless,) day labour is out of the question

I was fortunate enough to still have my laptop computer with me, so I could use the internet anywhere there was a wifi connection for free.

You really, really have to use your brain and street smarts and luck has to be on your side if you're going to survive on the streets.

You hear today that true entrepreneurs have to have hustle if they are really going to succeed, much is true when your homeless you really have to have hustle. Trust me you don't know what the word hustle truly means, until your day to day survival is dependent on it.

This was my hustle, I fix laptops in public libraries, I would use my own laptop to look up answers and troubleshoot problems so I could repair other persons laptops. I charged $60 dollars for three hours work or a flat rate of $90 flat rate to repair if no matter how many hours I would work on your laptop.

Most of the laptops I fixed were software related problems and I had a secret weapon that helped me. This secret weapon was Microsoft Canada, whom was just a phone call and wifi connection away.

When I wasn't fixing laptops, looking for a new home, and going to doctors appointments and hospital for my cardiac issues I was trying to broker deals in the entertainment industry, who through a contact in NYC, I would receive information and a partnership on projects I worked on.

One project I am still proud of today that I was asked to be involved with was "The Voice ReMastered," this was a live Las Vegas version of the television show. My job was to try and find financing for this project.

Yes I was homeless living on the streets on in homeless shelters. But here is the thing folks I never ever doubted myself and my abilities even when I was homeless.

The Voice REMastered is today a live version of the television show, it is at the Hard Rock Hotel/Casino and the company WWE (yes the same people who produce World Wrestling Entertainment,) came along with the finances to put this Las Vegas version The Voice television show together.

Please Rethink, how you think about homeless people, because they are not necessarily who and what you think they are.

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