Your Unemployed Daughter

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Would she smell as sweet? I suppose that would depend on when she’d bathed, and how much Wild Turkey she’d consumed the night before.

But it’s an interesting question. There are a lot of words out there for the jobless, and the way we got there. Unemployed, fired, laid-off, “between work,” even freelance and semi-employed. All have a different cast; a different set of expectations and perhaps stigmas. And how freakingly meta is it when your job becomes “Being Your Unemployed Daughter”? Dude.

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