Todays Words of Not-Wisdom

This is my second blog on this website.  The first one went by the wayside when I couldn't remember the nonsense info I originally signed up with.  Maybe this time around, I'll care enough to write such information down for future use.

So.  I'm unemployed and my last day was 2 weeks ago.  Here's what I've learned about the unemployed life so far.  The initial filing for unemployment was easy.  Since then, it's been a bunch of b.s.  I answered questions online, only to receive stupid paperwork asking me to answer the same questions.

I'm on my second house watching "job".  I'm not getting paid, I'm doing it for my friends.  This time around, it's 15 days.  2 dogs, 2 cats, and a whole lot of horrible smells.  It's difficult getting up in the morning.  I don't have any reason to.  My back actually hurts from sleeping too much.  How messed up is that?

Netflix and Hulu are great, initially.  But once those reserves are tapped, there is nothing to watch.  Or at least, I am not going to spend an hour trying to find something to watch that's only 30 minutes longer than the time I spent searching for it.  I'm actually a big reader.  But I've gotten the most out of my local library and have to wait for books to be mailed from other libraries to the one I frequent.

At this point, I'm out of work, out of crap to watch, out of books to read, and, basically, out of money.

However, the initial stage of my post-employment life has taken place.  I am going back to school.  I did actually graduate back in 2006 with a B.A. in English Lit.  So I'm not going "back" in terms of finishing.  I'm going back in terms of finding something else to do with my life.  Something that keeps me from wasting another minute behind a desk, spending my life working to make someone else rich.

I think one of the more important lessons I've learned is that any type of work that makes a person a decent amount of money only serves to make the world a worse place.  What I am trying to learn is how to make a living in world I completely disagree with. 

Until next time, may you do better than myself.