Comments on: Young, single and funemployed

By: Tracy W

Tracy W — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:58:28 +0000

I had a bit of this when I got laid-off a couple of years ago. I went off to Vietnam, where my husband was working and travelled for a bit. Then I got bored.
Luckily hustling for work was a lot easier then than it is now.

By: bandit

bandit — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:56:01 +0000

Being out of work isn’t so much fun when you’re married, have a mortgage and little mouths to feed. I was out of work for a month at the beginning of the year. I don’t recall the atmosphere being so cheerful at the DOE. I was extremely fortunate to get hired back in my old job in a couple of weeks but almost all of the people I worked with who got whacked haven’t. But lets not focus on those who are suffering – let’s go find 3 trust fund victims and listen to their devil may care attitudes about unemployment because everything’s wonderful now.

By: Me

Me — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:25:59 +0000

I just…don’t get this attitude. To be honest, I know that my parents would be quite willing to help me out if I were ever laid off. In fact, they pretty much want me to quit my job and move back home. But there’s this little thing called pride and independence. Okay, two things.

By: greifer

greifer — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:53:06 +0000

—- I think I’d feel sad and unfulfilled if I was a “trustafarian” or someone who was being bailed out.

yes i think those feelings are probably what many young adults feel, but they don;t even know it. to recognize that one’s unfulfillment or ennui isn;t just the natural default state of life, or that it’s entirely solveable may never occur if you’ve done no work or achieved nothing you own as yours.

By: MTheads

MTheads — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:36:48 +0000

I don’t really care if a small subset of adults manage to live life to the fullest at their parents’ expense. I just fear our society is skewed towards rewarding those kind of people because they have the right degrees from the right colleges, wear the right clothes, say the right things, and live in the right places.

By: KauaiMark

KauaiMark — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:47:32 +0000

I hope the Phoenix does follow up piece on Senam and Khushbu about 6 months from now when, still unemployed when the money runs run out and the rent and car payment are due.
P.S. – Sorry, forgot to tell you great post!

By: KauaiMark

KauaiMark — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:08:41 +0000

I hope the Phoenix does follow up piece on Senam and Khushbu about 6 months from now when, still unemployed when the money runs run out and the rent and car payment are due.

By: ricki

ricki — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:24:18 +0000

It’s funny. My parents taught me about the satisfaction of hard work. I think I’d feel sad and unfulfilled if I was a “trustafarian” or someone who was being bailed out. There is a certain pleasure in simply being able to go to the grocery store and knowing that the food you are buying, you earned the money for yourself – that you are not dependent on anyone else.

I wonder if that’s just another divide in this increasingly-divided nation: between the people who’d rather work their way out of a problem, and the people who’d rather be bailed out of it.

And what happens when Mommy or Daddy get laid off?

By: SuperSub

SuperSub — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:01:41 +0000

I see the same attitude with my students… there’s no need to worry about things because there is always someone who will bail you out, whether it’s your parents or the government.

The one maddening thing about this is that these individuals continually say that there isn’t anything they can do, when the opposite is true. They do have control over their own fortunes, and aimlessly meadering while things straighten themselves out is a sure recipe for disaster.

I do believe things will work out…but because I do my part to make that happen. Those who make the change happen will be part of the society when it turns, but those who ‘stepped out’ on it will find themselves lost.