Funemployed?? You're shitting me.

Unemployed? More like funemployed in the Globe and Mail.

I actually knew this was coming down the pipe since a friend of mine was invited to submit his 'funemployed lifestyle" for this article. I happen to know that my friend is a pretty hard-working freelance web developer, so I am not sure if he ever did that.

Anyways, I just want to register my absolute displeasure at the headline, subject and premise of this article.

Perhaps if the headline were:

"Privileged Adults With Severance/Savings/Benefits Or The Kind of Jobs Where EI Doesn't Come Out to About 200 a Month Minus Taxes Take Extended Paid Vacations While the Rest of Us Suffer."

I'd be more cool with it, but probably not.

Like seriously, it does suck to lose your job and if you can make lemonade out of lemons by using your EI to take a three month trip to Asia then you should do it.

But I don't think it's very nice to make that out to be some sort of end goal. Let's try and get our story straight market economy, should I be out there hustling, trying not to slide into more debt while simultaneously trying to help the economy back on it's feet *or* packing my bags and heading off to take advantage of third world consumer goods with the diminished stub of my investment portfolio. I can't do both, I am sorry I just can't.

My head is reeling.

Nota bene: That being said, I am actually planning to go (further) into debt in order to take a stand-up comedy workshop this summer. That's gonna be my 'funemployment' doing some amateur stand-up some time in September. So who knows maybe from the inside funemployment is just a neat way of saying" I refuse to cave to debt panic" or "my mom just remortgaged the house to pay for my lifestyle." Whatever.