The "Being Unemployed Sucks" Thread

I think it's worth noting that, aside from the money, being employed generally sucks too.

Yeah, but being unemployed is major boredom. You can only play videogames for so many hours a day before you start to go stir crazy.

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Originally Posted by Jetman

No, the unemployment checks back up whatever you make at a certain job. For example I get close to $1000 a month from unemployment, then I got a crappy retail job at a videogame store, where I make maybe $400 a month, so unemployment backs that up by paying me $300 every two weeks - I only get this for a year so come July, the unemployment goes 'Bye-Bye'.

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Interesting.

As a sidenote, he really fell in love with Xbox live during that period.

Up until I moved here, the longest I'd ever been unemployed was 2-3 weeks while my band toured. Upon moving here, after 2 broke ass months I finally got a job waiting tables at a BUFFET restaraunt, then finally got on at a printer(decent money, but not for my experience). After being forced to leave that job due to an allergic reaction to some of the chemicals, I started managing a coffee shop, then realized I could make as much money just going to school and getting a PELL grant. Unemployment rocks!!!

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Originally Posted by bbobb

Yeah, but being unemployed is major boredom. You can only play videogames for so many hours a day before you start to go stir crazy.

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Lol yes. I killed alot of time on FFXI but I was hating that game a month into it. So I would just leave the house and walk around or got to stores and businesses asking if they needed help, cuz the news paper always has the same damn employers hiring (that never hire me) after that I'd visit weed dealer and get back to FFXI at night. :link:

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Originally Posted by Jetman

No, the unemployment checks back up whatever you make at a certain job. For example I get close to $1000 a month from unemployment, then I got a crappy retail job at a videogame store, where I make maybe $400 a month, so unemployment backs that up by paying me $300 every two weeks - I only get this for a year so come July, the unemployment goes 'Bye-Bye'.

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This actually varies from state to state I think.

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Originally Posted by bbobb

Yeah, but being unemployed is major boredom. You can only play videogames for so many hours a day before you start to go stir crazy.

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I can attest to that. This morning, I completed unlocking everything in Capcom Fighting Evolution. You can't get any more bored than that.

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Originally Posted by StriderKyo

I think it's worth noting that, aside from the money, being employed generally sucks too.

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oddly i enjoy it, the jobs arent what i want to be doing, but its kind of a "meaning" thing to be doing something.

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Originally Posted by Vasteel

This actually varies from state to state I think.

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You may be right. I thought about this after posting what I did.

And the only reason why I dont just ride out on the unemployment checks alone( like my friends always ask me) is because I HATE applying for jobs and whoring myself out.I'd rather get a little job on the side to avoid applying at 12 jobs a month or whatever to validate my unemployment.

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Originally Posted by frostwolf ex

oddly i enjoy it, the jobs arent what i want to be doing, but its kind of a "meaning" thing to be doing something.

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I wish I could feel that way about work, but I can't get motivated burning my life away so some workaholic above me who doesn't feel the need to see his family or have real friends can make money from my tireless dedication to marketing widgets or performing financial transactions or whatever.

By and large, there are only a few jobs I don't consider utterly trivial and meaningless in the grand scheme of things.