Ah, you've stumbled across my blog where my seemingly pointless and un-profound experiences associated with unemployment claim sanctuary. Maybe it's an opportunity to realize what is significant about these lackadaisical ventures, or maybe it's just a distraction from actually finding a job. I'll let you decide.
Here's my take. Unemployment, generally speaking, is a temporary stress. And since people behave differently depending on the stressor, I find unemployment to be an opportunity to observe who a person is, based on what he ends up doing or feels. It is telling of what kind of person he is - what his interests are, his ambitions, vices, struggles. For the past several months, I've been unemployed, and had many excellent moments that just sort of get lost in the ether since nobody is around to drink wine with me on Tuesday mornings (it's like they're all working to support themselves or something). I say these moments are excellent, because though they may be ridiculously irresponsible or pointless or distracting, they give insight to who I am, and perhaps life in general.
Beyond that, this is also a place where the many thoughts that are so full of potential may reside and be recorded, so that when the same thoughts or feelings pop up in my head (which undoubtedly happen during unemployment), they may be built upon instead of reiterated.
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The blog is called Unemployment Again. You know how during the first round of unemployment, you're about to cry because you think "I'm a useless person," after months of applying to jobs? And then you're embarrassed to see your friends because you've gained 15 pounds while watching too many youtube videos and playing way to many video games and don't know what day it is? And then you know it's bad because you're scrounging around for quarters to make up for the guilt of spending your student loan money drinking the pain away? (And you know that loan ain't gonna pay itself off!) And you're just waiting, hoping for someone to throw you a rope to save you from the utterly self-destructive and demoralizing experience? Well, Unemployment Again is just like that, except the scrounging intensity is not as bad because, well, you were working and now you're living off the government. Unless you had quit your job, of course. Then it's just as bad as the first time.
At some point, given the superfluous amounts of time you now have, you decide to reinvent yourself! It's not such a bad idea, really (besides the implication that you were invented in the first place). What better to do than to better yourself? I'll be recording my more-or-less aimless efforts here, in this very blog.
Cheers!
