Gap Year 🧏

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• StabbingSky@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That was me after being laid off due to DOGE.

  “This is fine, I have a decade of experience and 4x letters of recommendation from the owners of my last 3 jobs.”

  600+ ghosted applications later

  “Well, time to resume alcoholism.”

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  • IMALlama@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    600+ ghosted applications later

    That sounds horrible, I’m really sorry to hear that you’re going through this :(

    My job sucks, but I am thankful to have one given the industry I work in.

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• Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Me, being a pensioner because of officially being unable to work in a normal job: (permanent top picture)

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  • diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I agree with what you said and I have a similiar experience. I gave my back to my job and then they fired me in the end…

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• Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Technically not employed for 3 decades now, I can’t say that image fits. We love it and enjoy life to the fullest.

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  • Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It really really depends on the state of your bank account

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    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I know I’m privileged to say that and not everybody would have a choice to work.

      But…if you just value peace and you know to navigate a very tiny budget (don’t actually know how tiny), everyone could do that here (Germany). There’s a reason we’re flooded by immigrants. Rent paid, and a bit of money on top.

      If it were for me, universal basic income for everyone. Work if you want more, don’t if you’re fine. Studies shown it works perfectly fine. But our owners don’t want that. They just want the very poor to hate and fight the slightly less poor.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I wished I could survive being unemployed for three decades. Like without living under a bridge.

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    • tyranny@crazypeople.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      it can be fun alright, but there’s only so many ways to be poor

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• HalfSalesman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Its going to get worse before it gets better. US bond yields are massive, diesel is skyrocketing, AI bubble is teetering. Once we hit some thresholds in the next week or two we’ll have a significant wait before hiring really takes back off…

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• stickyprimer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ll never forget borrowing $500 from my parents in 1997 because after 30 days in the big city I still hadn’t found a job. These were the days when I was a real whiz kid for using my modem to send a scan of my resume directly to fax machines. Dice.com was not a website but a Telnet service.

  I don’t think I ever paid them back…

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  • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you’ve had a good life, you’ve paid them back already.

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    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This world needs more of you

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• expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  it took me 2 months and got very close to out-of-money-for-bills territory

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• festus@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I finished my graduate degree right at the end of 2019 and spent 2020 unemployed. It really sucks.

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