I don’t know if this is the right sub for this tbh, if it’s not can mods/admin please leave it up long enough for someone to tell me where this is better suited? I would delete this from here as soon as I’m made aware and can copy this to move it 🙏🏼

I think I may be asking after something unrealistic but I’m getting desperate

TL;DR: I need viable ways to make money from home in a way that doesn’t require one to make phone calls regularly, is very physical, or I need a reality check on if that’s even possible. It’s okay if it doesn’t make a lot

Detailed Ask: my gf lost her job in December and she’s been looking but it’s not been going well. I’m on disability and have been since the 20teens at first it was approved for mental health reasons and now it’s combo mental/physical health. When I was able to work, it was retail and I was good at it. The last job I had was bridal consultant/customer service rep/in charge of the window treatment section at a BBB (job before that I was a manager at Hollywood Video which I absolutely loved but, well, it was a video store so)

She’s got no insurance, there is something incredibly weird going on with her Medicare application that it taking forever to get resolved and she’s developed an issue she needs treatment for so we’re haemorrhaging money at an unsustainable pace

My disability is about $1K a month and I’m not allowed to have $2K+ in savings which isn’t ever an issue bc with all my bills and medication/treatment needs, I consistently am $4-$600 a month short of what I need anyway so it’s been over a decade since I’ve been able to have “that much” to begin with

I have complex mental/physical health issues and I’ve thought about just ignoring both best I can and trying to find anything I could get until I crash basically but after talking about it a lot with my therapist and others, I’ve realized that it’s not hyperbolic to say that this could kill me and I’d very optimistically be able to make two paycheques before that point which isn’t worth the toll it would take and would end up costing more if I needed to be hospitalized or worse. To say nothing of the truncated hours I would need in order not to go over the limit of what I’m allowed to have before I get my disability diminished or cut altogether

I very desperately want to be able to work and have had that as a goal for longer than this has been this kind of issue but I also recognize that most of my skills are probably useless bc I can’t work in person and can’t do telemarketing (which I have done in the past)

I’ve been researching things I COULD do with ostensibly nothing physical or solid to offer but so many “make money” sites are incredibly sketchy or obvious scams and data entry is basically being outsourced to AI these days

Is this even a realistic thing? I don’t actually need something that makes a ton. It CAN’T, actually—I literally and metaphorically can’t afford to lose my disability or have it cut but if I could get something that could pay me enough to pick up my own slack with maybe a little extra to give directly to gf, it wouldn’t fix the core issues but it would take some pressure off

My active skills include: great customer service capability, structural/copy editing, sensitivity reading, and proofreading. I’m a dedicated learner and pick things up fairly quickly—I don’t mind monotony or repetitive work

Drawbacks: agoraphobia issues, my mental health can be unpredictable even while managed w medication and treatment, chronic pain issues have limited my mobility and bad/good days are unpredictable as well though as a baseline I’m never not in pain and good days often need to be recovered from bc I use them when I have them

Sorry this is so long, thank you for any advice in advance. Feel free and encouraged to ask for any info that could help better answer including specific dx’s/exact symptoms if it could help