Funemployment
Jun 24, 2009 Print This Post
In light of last weekend’s teaching on work, I thought this was an interesting article
Michael Van Gorkom was laid off by Yahoo in late April. He didn’t panic. He didn’t rush off to a therapist. Instead, the 33-year-old Santa Monica resident discovered that being jobless “kind of settled nicely.”
Week one: “I thought, ‘OK . . . I need to send out resumes, send some e-mails, need to do networking.”
Week two: “A little less.”
Every week since: “I’m going to go to the beach and enjoy some margaritas.”
What most people would call unemployment, Van Gorkom embraced as “funemployment.”
(Thanks to Lisa for the link to For the ‘funemployed,’ unemployment is welcome – Los Angeles Times)
So, what do you think about funemployment?
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