Anyone without a job knows that filling time can be a real problem. Sure, at first you spend more time in the gym, take yourself out for leisurely lunches, catch up on reading. But then you realize gyms, lunches, and books are pricey, and tell yourself you'll find cheap, creative ways to entertain yourself. Enter television and the Internet. A couple of weeks ago, New York feted the unemployed in a way that both released tension and got an increasingly pasty population outdoors. Not to mention, it was recreational enough to surely turn their employed friends green with envy (envy being the most plentiful green currency the unemployed have these days).
I encourage people in every city to coordinate their own Unemployment Olympics. What else are you doing with your time?
Unemployed? Watching your co-workers get picked off one-by-one? Finding yourself roped into your deadbeat friends' increasingly desperate and manic shenanigans? Pass your story or links along to workingforthegovernment@gmail.com
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