Stuff Unemployed People Like is a blog intended to bring some humor into the lives of those affected by “this global economy” mostly by poking fun at them. It is updated on weekdays to give the unemployed some semblance of structure and to remind them of their employed days when they would check their favorite blogs first before starting to work.
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Great Web site! We featured you on the latest edition of The Recession File and added a link on Jobacle.com.
http://tinyurl.com/clpjyk
I like podcasts. They’re usually free and if you download the public radio-y ones (see: stuff white people like), you have yourself a guilt-free way of killing time.
Hi! It’s Jacqueline! Didn’t know you blogged! Sony just told me and I just started mine. I love yours.
Cool site Supl,
Please could you add me to your blogroll list. I saw your comment on my site and have done the same.
I do believe in these hard times, we must still continue to laugh, have fun with the circumstances given, but at the same time remember that any one of these situations could be us, so be kind in thought, and thank the stars it is not us.
Cheers,
CruVic (Mike)
Adding you to my blogroll. So nice hearing other people’s funny stories from unemploymentland. If you can’t have fun while being dealt a big pile-of-stank, then you have a very long painful path ahead of you! Fun stuff!
Great site. Great site. The only way to deal with all of the
“bull****” and insanity of being unemployed and broke is to laugh at it. Finally, I found another blogger with a sense of humor about this whole thing. Keep at it. Great site, great stuff.
Love the site! Featured this site on my first Blog O’ The Week. You all have a great sense of humor, exactly what we need in times like this.
http://www.bw29.wordpress.com — Recession Daily
This is like finding out I have a twin
This website keeps me sane.
I came across your blog and found it very enlightening as it pin pointed every thing I know was wrong but failed to admit to myself. I feel I have become an addict of unemployment and although I do my best to “look” for a job, I find excuses to not go out and motivate myself.
Thanks. This actually helps me a lot!
And it is a great read!
Love your site. You have a wonderful sense of humor about unemployment.
Witty begins here! I’m laughing out loud and inwardly cringing at the same time because I can relate to more than a few things on your list. Laughter’s really the best medicine, so thank you for making this site.
You made me laugh so hard I almost peed!!!!
I love you.
Great blog! Made me feel better about being jobless and broke. Keep up the good work! I will be visiting often!
P.S. I added your blog to the “Cool link’s” section of my blog.
Awesome site! love reading the blog. Thanks for the http://www.freeshiet.com plug too.
This is the best blog ever - I’ve been unemployed for a week and a half and I think I’m dying of boredom! At least there a few things I haven’t tried yet - thank you!!
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Princess
Went looking for a site about unemployment and getting fat and found your site. It’s the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time. I just did the give a ride/fall back to sleep thing today.
The Internet does a good job of showing that at least one other person is doing the same thing / asking the same question.
Just found you on twitter and LOVED YOUR SITE AND BLOG!!! I have something similar if ur interested. Seems we have a similar approach to unemployment… better to laugh than cry!
So i found your blog through Kristin C. Shes a friend of mine and i lost my job yesterday so we went out for drinks, naturally.
anyway she told me about your blog and how you hate hugs.
its funny!
GREAT BLOG!
I’ve recently started blogging myself about my unemployed “Active Leisure” lifestyle.
I’d like to add you to my blogroll if you wouldn’t mind considering the same?
My “Active Leisure” blog
Maybe write a blog about those greedy, work-addicted baby boomers; like the gong show at age 90, they will still be working for their 4K (or is that 401K or 41K) thanks to those fraudulent mutual funds (better luck in vegas).
Stuff boomers like.
Greed
Money
never retiring
loyalty to boss
loving boss
huge homes
luxury cars
never retiring
money
greed
never retiring
money
greed
money
greed
Boomers.
Great site.
Don’t forget the 99 cent store and Dollar Tree.
Where else can you get a week’s worth of food for $5.
I have found “my people”!!
Thank you for giving me some much needed laughs. Thought I had finally (finally!) landed a job last week but alas …
I generally try to be pretty upbeat but right now am not the least bit interested in making lemonade with the lemons life has handed me. Just let that yellow citrus set there and rot into a mushy mess for all I care right now.
I really appreciate your fine work — maybe the best revenge to being let go is living well (if cheaply) … and having a lot of laughs!
I WAS LOOKING FOR A SITE SPECIFICALLY FOR
MOTHERS OF the UNEMPLOYED
BUT
I came across this site and as I was reading …..
I was thinking……………..
yep I have one just like this … in fact I have two
Daughter came back home (lucky though ….working as a Physiotherapist for the NHS here in Cornwall, England if you are wondering where that is we are the County at the very end toe of Great Britain). Came home to save for a deposit for a house??? 15 months ago …. rental market so expensive with all the buy to rent landords needing to meet their financiers.
…… a Son with a Foundation Degree in Telecommunications
now unemployed for over a year with only temporary work on occassions to see him through, did I say see him through…. no such luck paying his way by doing chore around the house
So to all of you living with your parents ..
A few tips from the experienced Mum trying to support the unemployed and financially struggling kids.
REMEMBER ….. It is our home, rules of old still stand SO
continue to respect it AND your parents,
ask for help,
try to pay your way .. if not with a small amount of rent then with doing some chores especially if Mum works …. You don’t know how much it is appreciated if
the dishes are washed,
house vaccumed,
beds made,
washing put on the line,
hedges cut,
patio scrubbed,
car washed etc
In our house each has a price …. so you can pay off the rent with favours better still if its for love
At least try to find a job
Internet only is not good enough
Think outside of the computer box
Put a wanted ad on a roundabout, in the paper, in a carpark,
anywhere where employers might get to see it.
Make your CV stand out with graphics, or video clips etc
Do some voluntry work in the field you are looking for a job in.
Work for nothin in exchange for a week/month work experience for a company you might like to work for.
Start up window cleaning, car cleaning, grass cutting, etc
Deliver brochures,
Most of all TALK TO MUM AND DAD… Believe it or not …. they
might just be the only ones with the TIME to give you a hand.
From a frustrated mum of an unemployed son…..
OMG!!! Just stumbled upon your blog today. Went through all of it and it is DEAD ON!! I have been unemployed for longer than I’d like to admit. The funniest entry was the one on the useless diplomas…I have a Wharton MBA and it is absolutely useless. Can’t even get a temp job with it. Might as well save a little money and use it as toilet paper…
I am currently living my worst nightmare-
*I’m a 34-year old male (single…shocking, ain’t it?).
*I’ve been unemployed for 17 months and counting.
*To avoid going back “home” to mom and dad, I’ve been living with my 89-year old grandmother for more than a year! Somehow, that seemed like a better ‘temporary’ alternative than my parents (who live next door and have a finished 2100 sq. ft. basement (looking like my ‘dream home’ at this point)!
*My four year accounting degree and 12+ years of experience in the construction industry are worthless in this economic climate! There’s a few hundred thousand unemployed folks with equal or greater education and/or experience in this same area.
Long story short, some days I wish that I didn’t drive a Volvo so I could drive into a brick wall!!! But I’d just have a few minor injuries (from the dozens of airbags inflating like some sort of life-raft from hell) and be car-less on top of everything else!
The only thing that keeps me sane is being able to laugh at how sh!tty my life has become. Your site certainly helps me in that regard…and helps me pass the endless waking hours doing something other than pretending to look for a job! =)
Happy Thanksgiving! I found your site while searching to see if Whole Foods accepts EBT or food stamp cards. I am two years unemployed, without unemployment benefits and I recently applied for and received food stamps. I rely on roommate income, bartering, and a little entrepreneurial stuff using my food stamp income of $200 p/month. What I am doing is purchasing the groceries mostly at a very reasonable ethnic market, making hearty homemade soups and selling them to friends,neighbors and former business associates. I use a daily email to market them, I make the soup in my home, and I deliver (thank God I have a paid-for late model car.) Anyway, I can usually turn the food stamp income of $200 into $600-700 of monthly income. How rogue and mavericky is THAT?
I just found your blog and I’m freaking loving it. I really needed this. I just finished crying my eyes out from the last “thank you for interviewing BUT…” email (a freaking EMAIL and I went out in the snowstorm to interview!) but I you’ve really lifted my spirits. Keep it coming, I sure as hell need it.
I just discovered this site! I was lost and now I am found!! I have done just about everything mentioned in your blogs! I am sitting in a coffee cafe right now for free wifi eating my home made ham and cheese……using the same bottle of water the cafe sells filled with tap water from home!! Love it!! I’ll check in every day from now on!!