unemployed, a video

Tue, May 5, 2009

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2 Comments For This Post

Diane Says:
May 6th, 2009 at 9:50 am

This is exactly how it feels to be unemployed. Very alone – no employed people truly understand, if even if they want to. Man, I just really wish us all jobs today, not necessarily a GREAT job, just a good, steady job, where we can all feel useful and productive again. And we would not all have to feel scared all the time.

Craig Says:
May 6th, 2009 at 11:51 am

I disagree with Diane, and though the video and song are inarguably creative, they don’t express the norm. Granted my unemployment is only 60 days old and yes, I have a modest severance, but I’m one busy guy. And I’m not necessarily talking job search.

To me, unemployment right now is extraordinarily liberating; it forces me to focus on two things: The realization that what I used to do is not what I LOVE to do, and what I’m doing in my spare time (aside from job searches) is energizing, despite what it’s doing to my bank account.

Were I a married guy with family, mortgage, etc., this obviously would be a different story. But if you’re single, unemployed and with a reasonable mortgage or rent payments, consider it a chance to reinvent yourself!

Diane Says:
May 6th, 2009 at 9:50 am
This is exactly how it feels to be unemployed. Very alone – no employed people truly understand, if even if they want to. Man, I just really wish us all jobs today, not necessarily a GREAT job, just a good, steady job, where we can all feel useful and productive again. And we would not all have to feel scared all the time.
Craig Says:
May 6th, 2009 at 11:51 am
I disagree with Diane, and though the video and song are inarguably creative, they don’t express the norm. Granted my unemployment is only 60 days old and yes, I have a modest severance, but I’m one busy guy. And I’m not necessarily talking job search.

To me, unemployment right now is extraordinarily liberating; it forces me to focus on two things: The realization that what I used to do is not what I LOVE to do, and what I’m doing in my spare time (aside from job searches) is energizing, despite what it’s doing to my bank account.

Were I a married guy with family, mortgage, etc., this obviously would be a different story. But if you’re single, unemployed and with a reasonable mortgage or rent payments, consider it a chance to reinvent yourself!

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