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Apparently, I Am A Funemployed Person

By H. Totheomo
Published: July 09, 2009

diving I have never asked for a lot.

I happened to find a position that worked well. I didn’t buy a house because that nice job was becoming tortuous.

When I famously broke my ankle, and was recovering from surgery, I lost my job. Plus: no more panic attacks, for then. Minus: no income!

So, when I could drive again, and the weather became summerish, I spent $10 for my annual membership fee to swim at the pool that happens to be around the corner from me.

I have almost no money and can’t enjoy all of the time I have to myself. Luckily, I am fortunate to have a friend that wants to pay me to visit her and parents who sustain me in so many ways.

So, in the absence of job offers, I will be funemployed. There are days when I don’t speak to anyone.

In this state, I dive and swim. I ask my parents for money and borrow from my retirement.

Funemployed. Huh.

Vaquero posted the following on July 9, 2009 at 8:16 pm.
Let’s trade lives for one year. Deal?
lawyergay posted the following on July 9, 2009 at 8:48 pm.
Just wait until you start collecting “wow!fare,” as my friend Matt calls it.
Belltolls posted the following on July 9, 2009 at 8:51 pm.
“Ben…plastics.”

Nice piece.
josiegroper posted the following on July 9, 2009 at 9:11 pm.
While I thoroughly enjoy the expression “Funemployed” I wish you were able to really enjoy it!!
Vaquero posted the following on July 9, 2009 at 9:14 pm.
Dude, the future is totally in carbon fiber. Plastics is dead. Dead I tell you. Dead.
VoxPopuli posted the following on July 9, 2009 at 9:32 pm.
Sorry to hear it. I’ve heard from a lot of people who lost their jobs this year and last that in retrospect it was one of the best things that happened to them because it forced them out of jobs they hated. I hope that comes true for you and that you find a great job soon.
(Bonus – they paid for your surgery before you left, right? Score one for you)
ChillbearLatrigue posted the following on July 9, 2009 at 11:10 pm.
I would quit my job, but I need the means to pay for my vices, which are the only way that I am able to sustain the tedium of my job. Unless of course (feeling a leading question coming) anyone can suggest some cheap vices to help H2 pass the time…
BookishLookish posted the following on July 10, 2009 at 7:38 am.
I am good for a twenty every now and then, H., hit me up.
Unfun posted the following on July 10, 2009 at 3:36 pm.
I am also funemployed! Most of it sucks (job hunting, interviewing hell, worrying about how I’ll pay my rent soon), but there are the odd Wednesdays when I get really high at 2pm and chill out with my dogs and watch Judge Judy and think, “Haha, some people are at work right now.”
sfbirdie posted the following on July 10, 2009 at 10:35 pm.
How do you not speak to anyone? Don’t you have friends? I’m sorry, I’m just confused… All of my friends have made funemployment sound so incredibly fun that I guess I can’t really understand this post. You know I don’t speak Spanish or Non-Funemployment!!