Ah, the oh-so glamorous life of being unemployed. Checking your email every 10 seconds to see if you've heard back from a potential employer offering you your dream job (or any job really).
I sometimes envied my free, not-tied-to-a-desk friends who I’d see check in via foursquare throughout the day and wish I was having a leisurely afternoon at Whole Foods too.
Then I was laid off at the beginning of this week (really, who lays people off on a Monday anyway?) and came face-to-face with the ugly reality that being unemployed isn't as carefree as it seems.
You find yourself glued to your computer, scouring job sites like indeed and TalentZoo, emailing ANYONE who would know ANYONE in your market/industry and utilizing social media sites to network virtually. Updating your resume, your Linkedin profile, etc., only to realize it's after noon and you haven't showered or brushed your teeth yet.
So you resign to filing for unemployment with the state and just picture yourself as that percentage statistic that solely raises the unemployment rate for the state, even the country.
Then you get antsy and look for things to keep yourself busy. You make to-do lists for the day and realize you finally have time for yard work and household projects. You clean, you do laundry, but eventually you run out of things to do.
Wait, I have to check my email again…maybe I got an interview!
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