After realizing they’ve missed several weekends due to losing track of time, the unemployed will try to concentrate really hard (when not concentrating on shooting things in Halo 3) on remembering when the weekend is about to creep up again. Although every day is pretty much a weekend for the unemployed, on occasion they want [...]
Regretting signing up for a gym membership is not an exclusive problem for the unemployed but it’s something 100% of gym card-carrying unemployed people have in common. It doesn’t matter when the gym membership was purchased, whether it was a three year contract signed during peak physical health, acquired when a previous employer was subsidizing [...]
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For all the people who look forward to having a paid vacation courtesy of the government, there are folk who futilely do whatever they can to avoid their worst nightmare: moving home with their parents. Eventually, as all signs point to getting evicted and losing everything, they have no choice but to resign themselves to [...]
One of the biggest changes the unemployed make in their new lifestyles is their willingness to walk more than a few steps at a time. The thought of putting one foot in front of another to reach a destination besides the bathroom, refrigerator, or car used to draw skeptical looks, guffaws, and questions of, “You’re [...]
Netflix offers its members something beautiful - the opportunity to numb the brain one movie at a time all without having to make a trip to the video store. Not having to assemble an outdoors version of an unemployment suit because they can receive and return their videos via the mail, or instantly watch streaming [...]
You know, “in this economy”, it’s probably not the best time for the unemployed to start popping out kids. Sure, this is the one time they have all the time in the world to make sure their kids are brought up properly (i.e. stuck in front of the TV while unemployment naps are taken), but [...]
Because most people don’t respect the time unemployed people have, they tend to exploit it in the worst way possible. Usually, the unemployed can’t protest when they’re being used and abused simply because they are guilty of using their employed friends and family. In order to earn their keep or otherwise pay their friends back [...]
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Shopping is a great way to kill time and fill the void that unemployment insignificance causes. Window shopping at high end stores like Barney’s can be done if you’re willing to face scrutiny when they smell the scent of your most recent unemployment check on you. After getting kicked out of Neiman Marcus for playing [...]
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Every layoff comes with a story. The question is - is that story really interesting enough to create an entire blog revolving around an individual’s unemployment story? A resounding yes would be the answer coming from every unemployed person out there who has started a blog about being unemployed.
Readers, on the other hand, will be [...]
If you’ve ever seen an unemployed person’s skin and wanted to rush out and buy a vat of anti-wrinkle cream, stop right there. Save your money because anti-wrinkle cream isn’t going to give you the ageless look you’re looking for, unemployment is. You see, preventable blemishes aside, once the unemployed get accustomed to having lost [...]
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