So I have been unemployed for over three months now. I continue to collect unemployment compensation and will continue to do so for another nine months at which time I will no longer be eligible for benefits.
Got my haircutt today, and the stylist asks me "How are you getting by?" I told him unemployment comp., then I told him how I enjoy being on vacation and how great it it is not to have to work in such an economically depressed time when most people are working their asses off. The stylist then abruptly paused and said to me, "Don't say that when I have my scissors in my hands." LOL
I live with my parents and don't have a job. I live rent free and spend tax dollars (my unemployment comp) on trips to Tahoe and other cool places, sushi, clothes, presents for myself and others, manicures, pedicures, movies, supplements, dining out and other activities which I enjoy.
Some might say I have a "peter pan" complex and that I refuse to grow up. On the contrary, I have more life experience than most people I have talked people out of committing suicide, worked 26 hours in a row, solved rape, robbery and attempted murder cases, have been shot at and have received commendations initiated by members of the city I worked in for showing commendable restraint and for providing excellent community service. I have also cancelled family plans more times than I can count to work overtime and to care for the foulest smelling and most belligerent drunks that you could imagine.
So next time you see that average, unemployed, welfare-loving adult who lives with his parents. Just think..maybe he isn't a loser, maybe he is just an ordinary guy with nothing to lose.