Your Unemployed Daughter

YUD is very excited. Her friend (and former colleague/wearer of the “Snaps Cap”/grand master of imitations verbal and physical/shutterbug/dance fiend) Derek has been documenting a variety of things, large and small, that are helping him through his second brush with unemployment. And he has agreed to feature his work on YUD! Check in regularly for more entries.

THINGS GETTING ME THROUGH UNEMPLOYMENT, A HISTORY OF

“Unemployment” is a word that is being shouted from the rooftops these days, but instead of jumping, why not take a picture of the view? It’s so easy to get caught up in it all: rent, loans, food, bills, etc… All things that money needs to be spent on in order to get through the day.

Yes! Money is important. There are only so many times a person can log onto that unemployment site the government has so lovingly set up for us (Update: we just got another 13). Direct deposit or fun debit card? Pick your poison. (I myself went for the former.)

But in the end, we have a choice. We can be pissed about being unemployed all day long. Or we can look at the things around us that make us happy. If we’re pissed all day long, haven’t the terrorists (I mean, bad employers) won?

There are people, places, scenes, animals, lights, thoughts, memories, smells, songs, videos, rhythms, smiles, tastes, and a million other things that are getting me through unemployment. I want, dare I say, need a job, but for now there are others things to concentrate on.

Why not use them to my advantage?

Derek Ivie

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