All of us workers are part of the rat race really, especially those in cities and big towns. You get up, have breakfast (or not for some!), go to work, come and go in traffic and pedestrian paths and come home in the evening again in the traffic etc.. It's life but it can get too much for some and they end up falling by the wayside and homeless. A good job is a job that pays your bills and leaves something for yourself even if it's small. If it's a job you enjoy, then it's better again. A good job that's not in the rat race is rare! All jobs require getting up and going to them, doing what's necessary in the job, day after day. If you're rich (either by inheritance or otherwise) you may not have to work, unless you want to.
I watched a programme recently on RTE about a musical director starting up a choir in Dublin and Waterford with homeless people and it would break you heart some of the stories but make you feel good also at the good it did some of them. They were called The High Hopes choir.
all those choices are more for poverty than actually homelessness. some of the homeless need basic help, slowly but surely and carefully as there are various reasons for being homeless. Some have had good jobs etc and just couldn't cope with the rat race of life.
Oh yeah forgot Different Strokes... what you talkin' 'bout Willis! Father Ted is not American. Irish writer, British TV company (Channel 4) Neither is Steptoe and Son (BBC I think), but both brilliant! Especially Father Ted. "these cows are small, those cows are far away!"
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hi tru! Oh go on, be a European! 
be afraid!
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