FUNEMPLOYED_PART 2 … Putting the fun into unemployment

Unemployment may well be one of the worst things that can happen to you. All the joking aside, it’s demoralising and sometimes even degrading. But it doesn't all have to be doom and gloom. So you may resort to searching the pockets of those trousers you have long forsaken for abandoned change so you can afford a bottle of malt with your friends on a Friday night, lest you turn into a recluse.

But you know what? Rewriting a CV is a lot more fun if you’ve turned your pillow into your makeshift emergency table. Seriously. I speak from experience. So if you’re currently out of work – all seriousness, tears and copious CVs and covering letters aside – please be reminded that rumpled bedcovers and sacking off anything productive when the sun comes out is OK every once in a while.

Finally, let’s take this home. Here’s some advice for the funemployed out there:

1) Find a way to laugh about it. Seriously. Otherwise you’ll become despondent and depress everyone.
2) Talk to people about your situation, but do it in a jokey form. No one likes a winger.
3) Start a blog or online venture of some sort so you have something outside of yourself to focus on. This forces you to look out into the world and actually write about something.
4) Leave the house. Even if it’s to go for a walk. I speak from experience.
5) Volunteer for something. There’s that feeling of being part of something that works: no matter how big or small it may be.

Cheers…

Concluded.
- Precious Ohaegbulam (@prsh9 / precious_ohaegbulam@yahoo.com)