#10 – Showering is optional
#9 – Matching my clothes is optional
#8 – Accidentally drank too much on a Wednesday night? Not a problem.
#7 – Cable guy gives you an 8 hour window for when he may or may not actually show up? Not a problem – I’ll be here. Not like I took a vacation day to wait around for him.
#6 - Preparing BLT’s for lunch rather than eating a brown-bagged turkey sandwich which is warm and mushy by the time it gets eaten.
#5 – Being able to holiday shop during the middle of the day vs battling mall traffic on the weekend
#4 – Having the opportunity to witness all of the goofy things my dog does… like the day he got himself tangled in my ethernet cable and turned around and growled at it like it had done him some sort of injustice
#3 – Staying up way past ‘bedtime’
#2 – Turning the alarm clock off – will Monster.com really care if it’s 10 AM instead of 9 AM when I log in? Nope.
#1 – There is no #1 reason.
I won’t miss being unemployed. I won’t miss the indignity that comes with it. I won’t miss the missed paychecks. I won’t miss the general disarray of my finances. I won’t miss feeling like I don’t have a purpose in life. I actually and perhaps, suprisingly, will not miss sitting in mis-matched clothes, unshowered, apply for crappy jobs. I just won’t.
Employment suits me. Nothing about unemployment trumps the benefits of having a job.
Funny. I am the exact opposite of your closing Jules. I WANT to be unemployed, or, perhaps better said…employed, but having no job…employed in favored pursuits, those with which I instinctively know and are in some way, collectively, the fiber of who I am.
This is, of course, really all about wanting to quit my job and go fishing. Why not?
Love it Lou! I think we actually agree here. To be without a job because of someone else’s decision stinks; however, in the end the story of our lives is a funny one. I had a job I hated – they laid me off and then I found a job that totally suits me and my passions. Right now, corporate america is a passion for me. I think your passion for the corporate world has run dry, but I don’t doubt that in the very near future you’ll find a way to mix business with your passions… and do a little trout fishin’ while your at it!