unemployed Shar Worse than being underemployed. 020507 ... minnesota_chris when you're unemployed, it's like every day is Monday. 030103 ... minnesota_chris I applied at a couple chef positions a week ago, didn't hear back. Sigh. 030118 ... minnesota_chris I tell people that when you don't have one job, you have many jobs. I'm a receptionist and a landscaper now. I am busy about 11 hours a day now! 030731 ... .fallen apparantly there is something about me that makes me un-hire-able.... ugh .... is it the degree I have under my belt? Is it the fact that I am motivated, ambitious and clever? Is it because I would actually be happy shoved in a cubicle or something? ...hell, I've even put out applications for bartending and goodness knows that I have ample experience in that area.... argh.... living has started to become entirely too uncomfortable... and I have NO tolerance for that.... 040308 ... .fallen is horribly flawed sorry, degree should actually be the plural ...as in "is it the DEGREES I have under my belt?" so frustrated can't even type correctly, such a basic skill and it is always the most affected by my frustration or stress 040308 ... sameolme If I were employed, I never would have found blather. If I were employed, I wouldn't be sitting here, paralyzed with fear and wonder at this astonishing reality. If I were employed I would have a one sentence answer to the question: "What do you do?" 040308 ... eskimos friend i will be if i don't get a move on organising jobs. sometimes it's exciting not having a clue what i'm going to do after the summer, but sometimes i really respect the people who've got it all sorted and have always known what they want to do. as for me, i want to do everything, which is probably worse than wanting to do nothing, because there's more effort involved, more regret at having to turn something down, more evaluating what's more important, and ultimately more effort involved. (did i say that already?) 040308 ... misstree though i am a slacker by nature and an infamously effective stray_cat, being unemployed is one of the nastiest states to be in. not being able to support yourself and slowly slipping deeper in a mire, not having a daily purpose (which sounds appealing when you're in the middle of the 40-hour grind, but really gets old quick), not having the freedom or stability or ability to indulge yourself... it's shit. it really is. and belly rumblings tell me i will be there again soon; but yellowstone, o yellowstone, wilst thou save me? my best advice to the afflicted; try for job after job after job after job. and if you don't get the job, ask them why. don't settle for pat answers. the worst you'll do is come off as agressive. (don't do it rudely, just firmly.) you at least deserve the satisfaction of knowing what particular mistake they're making. and keep a small sample of hope set off somewhere where it can't be touched; you'll need to regrow it often. 040308 ... white_wave this is a scary thought: if i were unemployed, i would spend more time on blather. and i already spend HOURS HERE. 040308 ... Lila Pause When you're unemployed, you seem to have so much free time it's suffocating. When you're unemployed, factory workers with their low-paid, laborious 9-5 seem to have it all. When you're unemployed, it's not uncommon to find yourself seriously contemplating an investment in that most viable of options: suicide. When you're unemployed, there's probably no better time to write (excluding states of broken heartedness and severe disillusionment) I am unemployed. 040629 ... unhinged god, i can't take it anymore. i just want enough money to afford my habits comfortably. but just like broken legs relieve broken hearts, i don't have time to think about anything but my lack of finances. i could swallow a whole bottle of pills, smoke a few pipes, and have a glass of wine, and i'd still think about it anyway. certain things can't be erased. i just want a fucking job to distract myself with the mundane. i guess that's just too much to ask for in this town. 040629 ... emmi a friend of mine started a club called the monday unemployed club. the idea is that even those who are not unemployed should take mondays off to do such things as play frisbee in the park. i like that. 040704 ... pete i spent the best part of two months unemployed this summer. i needed someone to talk to, but you were gone, and i couldn't talk to them because what would they say? they were my sanity. they are my sanity, and the seeds of this new insanity i feel growing. 040705 ... oops... After United States' Shock_and_AWE:- "unemployed" Rate in Iraq = ? 040705 ... why not The_mea_culpa_in_the_21st_century:- Rocket_high "unemployed" Rate in Iraq Sincere_sorry_and_apology from Unites States for that mea_culpa 040705 ... devilbunny I STILL don't have a job. 061110 what's it to you? who go blather from