Read the topic. I don’t know what’s worse, getting a new job that you can’t stand, or not working at all.
waiting in line for government cheeze sucks worse.
-Imp
I´d love not to work, but need to because I don´t want to be homeless and miss out on all the comforts, pleasures and benefits that come with money.
If you want money, win the lottery, become a criminal or work. Most work. Steer you work towards something you enjoy or can at least tolerate more. There´s not much more to say.
Word. I think the “tolerate more” is the key here. Last few jobs I’ve taken made me want to hang myself within the first day of working. Mindless doesn’t mean stress free.
The last job I had was in a call centre; it was torture. The two extremes in most jobs tend to be either boredom or stress. If you´re not one, you´re the other. What about enjoyment and satisfaction?!
Then try starting up a service oriented business. Walking dogs, mowing lawns,haul junk off, clean yards Picking up dog feces in peoples yards, wash windows, Wash houses, wash cars, make repairs on houses etc, etc etc… Offer to deliver groceries for people. There are alot of little niches. Find out what people don’t want to do or don’t have time to do and name your price to do chores for them. Be a handy man or Jack of all trades. It can be lucrative, minimum start up costs, you set your own hours and pay. heck you are unemployed , no time like the present to be your own boss, what have you got to lose? Nothing.
d00d,
There are always mind killing jobs, from flipping burgers to 6 figure “positions” on Wall Street.
In your spare time (and lucid moments) start thinking about the things you like to do. The job you want is the one where you would pay them to let you do that. 
Begin gathering whatever credentials/experience necessary that will let you have/create that work. Now the mind-numbing, going-nowhere job has a purpose. It keeps you going while you move toward your real goal. I remember trying to make a decision about going to school or staying in the dead-end crappy pay job. It finally dawned on me that being an underpaid factory drone or a starving student was the same with one exception: My schooling would allow me to go places I couldn’t otherwise go. Either way, I was starving, but with school I had potential. I finally learned to love those shit jobs because I knew they were only temporary stepping stones and that some day, I would wave bye bye and move on to the things I truly wanted to do.
Think about it. You can be a fry cook or a brain surgeon or anything between, but its the shit jobs that get you there…
Join the military. They’re always taking people for various positions. ( There are non-combat positions.)
I myself am a soldier in the army.
That is a good piece of advice. There are more noncombatant positions open then combatant. The front line miltary require behind the lines support personnell. Most of my family have been in the support parts of the military. Few fought on the lines. The ones that are deployed right now are all noncombatants, they are mechanics, techs, and medical.
working at Pizza Hut sucks too
Too much free time can be worse than crack, both in terms of the initial thrill, and the long term detriments.
Sod that, I´d kill for “too much” free time.
Aint that the truth. I think I would hate to be unemployed again because it feels like your not worth anything, and you have no money. But right now, I wish I didnt have anything to do for at least a couple of months. I’d love to have so much free time that I didnt know what to do with it, just for a while, just so I can make the most of it, like I didnt when i had the chance
Wow.
I don’t know what to say to this, other than people must have pretty low self-esteem if they’re sense of worth is dictated by their job. You can have a full life outside of a job, education and knowledge for one, attempting to make the world around you a better place for two, even having a hobby that you enjoy outside of work for 3.
Like 2. The world is a bad enough place that working to make it better in x10000000 ways, makes life pretty fullfilling with or without a job.
Though I agree that without a source of income of some kind, that people probably would/should be depressed, as most people like having heat, clean water and food.
What, and nobody ever killed for crack? I think we’re still on the same page here.
unemployment is a blast because i can read all day, masturbate and play video games as much as i want.
the life for me!