Unemployment is rough. Though at times it may seem like it’s all fun and games, taking money from the government to supplement a lifestyle of lounging, traveling, and doing whatever makes the employed feel jealous can be hard on the mind, body, and spirit. Whenever the unemployed start feeling like their paid vacation is starting to make the world close in on them, they will do whatever it takes to find balance in their lives again. After hearing about how their employed friends escape stress, the unemployed begin to feel that they too deserve to pamper themselves to lessen the burden of having the best time ever, courtesy of the government.
When gloriously sleeping in, watching marathon TV all day, and pretending to care about unemployment percentage rates gets to be too much to handle, unemployed people around the world think to themselves, “You know what I really need to do to get myself out of this funk? Put a rock on my head.” Before long, the unemployed are investigating ways they can alleviate the stress they don’t really have. Instead of putting away the video games that have caused repetitive stress injuries, the unemployed decide a massage is necessary to cure the tension having no job has caused. Rather than washing their face regularly to prevent acne breakouts, the jobless treat themselves to expensive facials that are needed to combat the skin damage the unemployed blame on hours in front of the computer monitor, pretending to look for a job. Whether it’s a spa weekend, a meditation retreat, or an undeserved breakfast-in-bed made by an employed significant other, the unemployed can be very creative in their explanations for justifying why they deserve to pamper themselves, including the favorite excuse: Obama would want me to do this.
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As an unemployed female person, I totally relate.
See my post about Spa Treatments in my series, Stuff Female People Like:
http://www.ittybittycrazy.com/.....ments.html
Keep up this great site!
IBC
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My response to this is VERY late…my apologies.
But I do have some thoughts I’d like to share. First, this is intended to be funny, right? I hope so, because it doesn’t reflect my life or that of most unemployed people.
Being able to pamper oneself often requires money, which usually means having a steady income, which means having some kind of job.
While I’m able to afford the occasional manicure or a little extra sumthin sumthin, I generally can’t afford to “pamper” myself the way I want to. I don’t go shopping anymore. I don’t visit beauty salons anymore. I have to limit myself to a very strict budget because having no job typically means I’m flat broke.
I have never been on welfare, nor have I ever accepted handouts from the government. No disrespect to those that receive unemployment or government assistance…I’m simply stating what my life is like as a person without a job.
Sometimes watching TV and surfing the Internet is all an unemployed person can do to keep from collapsing further into depression and hopelessness, especially when there don’t seem to be any job prospects in sight.
I’ve never had a spa weekend. I believe this is true of most unemployed folks as well. I also don’t blame President Obama for things being the way they are. There is only so much he can do to improve the situation.
Sometimes my husband takes me to nice restaurants and we go on trips once in a while. I’ve learned to silence the voice that says it is “undeserved”. I don’t believe that only people with jobs should be allowed to have fun and happiness in their lives, while unemployed people should suffer. I’m not unemployed by choice and I don’t take advantage of others. I try to make the best of my situation, although I have many moments where I am deeply unhappy with the way my life has turned out.
Anyway, I apologize if this came off as a rant…that wasn’t my intention. I just have a problem with the notion of “funemployment” because most of the time, it really isn’t fun. I hate being broke and having no money of my own. I hate being unable to get a good job because of my disability. I hate feeling like a burden to others because society links a person’s social status to what they do for a living, instead of who they are.
I’m sorry for whining.
What a gross horrible site.I am unemployed through illness and am on anti-depressants because I am practically suicidal.Go and bully people in your own position.