Comments on: unemployed, a video http://www.cheezhead.com/2009/05/05/unemployed-a-video/ Insight and opinion from the world of employment. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:01:22 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Craig http://www.cheezhead.com/2009/05/05/unemployed-a-video/comment-page-1/#comment-117707 Craig Wed, 06 May 2009 15:51:04 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/?p=5482#comment-117707 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! 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!

]]> By: Diane http://www.cheezhead.com/2009/05/05/unemployed-a-video/comment-page-1/#comment-117705 Diane Wed, 06 May 2009 13:50:27 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/?p=5482#comment-117705 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. 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.

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