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Recession Lexicon: Funemployment
A period of joblessness that you actually enjoy—maybe you get to lay out, sleep in, work out, read up. It helps to have savings, severance or an unemployment check to help pay the bills. We’re hearing this word used more and more, especially as people realize they may not be able to find a new job right away, so they might as well try to enjoy the time off.
Ex: Yeah, he was upset about getting laid off, but I hear he’s traveling and totally digging funemployment.
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I’ve been using this term freely since my November 2008 layoff in my blog, aptly titled “funemployment blog”
Check it out!
http://funemploymentblog.blogspot.com/
[...] the last week, both LA Times and SF Weekly have featured articles on “funemployment”–the young and the unemployed who are making pink lemonade out of their pink slips by [...]
And if the unemployed get a little hungry after all that sleeping in, reading, travel etc.. They can eat cake to get their energy back!
Funemployment is an art, a lifestyle change! Though temporary, best case scenario, this time of unemployment can be a great experience, where great things can be accomplished on the home front and it offers an opportunity for personal growth and life lessons, such as reevaluating one’s spending habits in general!
Check out my new blog: theartoffunemployment.blogspot.com
I wrote a slightly snarky little book about my 10 month stint with Funemployment as well as several of my corporately displaced friends. Come join us?
http://www.amazon.com/FUnEMPLOYMENT-K-Jobbus-Interruptus/dp/0615545742/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321660124&sr=8-1