How can I get off of Social Security Disability?

[Lynn]

Why a job? Why not work for yourself and start a business? Use your old skills ad your still working brain (you have to be smart to accomplish what you accomplished), and figure out how to do some work at home. I don't know which "networking" you're referring to, but if you mean computers, I bet you can still fix computers part time. My husband did computer repairs for major corporations, before he became physically disabled. Even when he couldn't get a job in the field (he learned how just in time to help resolve the Y2K issue and then the field collapsed between that and all the failed dotcommer positions), there was always a neighbor or friend who needed work done on their computer. We were thinking of getting him set up to do it at home, when he got sick.

I'm not sure if that's the kind of job you had, but I'm sure if you start thinking of the skills you still have (ten years later, and people still don't know how to maintain their computers properly lol) and start considering of the kinds of jobs you can do right out of your home, it will probably be enough to keep you feeling like a helpful member of society without getting to the point of exasperating whatever it is that causes you to be disabled.

(Oh, and I'm as shocked as everyone else with how much you receive, but I have family that could easily max out on the benefits, if they became disabled. Since we downsides quite a bit when we both became disabled too, I also know how hard it is to live on that "little." It has to do with where you lived and how you lived, when you become disabled. We were fortunate too, but more because we bought a house for way below what we could afford, so now it's about the maximum of what we can afford. lol)