A letter for Peter

Faked it and made it

This is a letter for Peter, who was in your last issue (“Homeless bootcamp at Ocean Beach,” Letters, October 26). You have to go to Goodwill places and get nice clothes and take showers every day to go and apply for a job. Otherwise, you won’t ever get hired. You can’t tell people you’re homeless. You just have to fake it ‘till you make it, really.

And Peter, I wish you all the luck. It seems like from your letter that you spend all day doing a lot of different things to survive, but if you would keep yourself clean every day and wash your clothes and go and talk to people and network, I’m sure you can find work. If you can’t find work, then you should get on disability, and if you can’t get on disability, which takes a while, you need to go to social services and get food stamps at least so you have plenty of food every month.

Anyone who has no money can get social services, get some assistance with food and money. So I think anybody who is homeless should know about this to help themselves. But you have to go to the social service office and apply, and then I think you would have a better life. Okay, I wish you well, and take care of yourself.

• Name withheld