So, you’re laid-off or you took a generous severance package or buyout. You’re in your 20s or 30s. You’re not worried about supporting a family yet, you’re probably single, and you’ve probably been working like a dog trying to get ahead in the boom years.
What do you do now that the bottom’s fallen out?
It may not have entered our daily lexicon yet, but a small army of social media junkies with a sudden overabundance of time is busy Tweeting: “Funemployment road trip to Portland.” “Funemployment is great for catching up on reading!” “Averaging 3 rounds of golf a week plus hockey and bball. who needs work?”
Methinks this is a catchy word in search of a trend, but I could certainly support a movement towards less work for all, and more leisure time. Isn’t that what the future promised? Instead, we get Type-A personalities always working more, more, more, and the rest of us have to catch up, just to look like we’re not slackers.
Grant Hamilton
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SLACKERS UNITE! Join me brothers and sisters, and we will usher in a new era of leisure and mediocrity.
Oh wait, that would require extra work, wouldn’t it?
Screw it.
I just got laid off for a month and have no plans at all really. Gonna be awesome.