23
Sep
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© Judd Marcello
YUP has recently gotten in touch with his first dispatch from across the pond! I know you’re excited, but keep a stiff upper lip, please. Anything else would be untoward.
Release the Hounds
The one good thing about being unemployed in London is being unemployed in London. I am so busy keeping busy I haven’t had time to start the job search. There is so much to experience and explore here that I wonder why anyone would want to work in the first place!
Apparently I am not the only one who feels this way.
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Tags: 7.9 percent unemployment, american in london, barfly, british beer, choosing to be unemployed, hyde park, local ale, museum of natural history, ray lamontagne, royal albert hall, salvation via search engine, six-figure salary, sydney, tower bridge, unemployment in the UK, yup
28
Aug
Posted in Adventures with YUP | 9 Comments »

I recently got this note from Judd Marcello, fellow blogger, music aficionado, and husband to one of my college roommates: “I’m about to be unemployed once we move to London. Does YUD need guest bloggers? A “YUS” [Your Unemployed Son] perspective? A UK perspective?”
To update you briefly: J, my roommate, then housemate, now simply good friend across the world, moved to Boston after we graduated from our esteemed East Coast university. She took a job with a certain established company and has been with them ever since, moving, along with her promotions, from Boston to Miami to Sydney and now to London.
Judd has carved out his own career in each of those locales, bypassing established career path norms and hurtling conventional ladders to do what works for him—and what he’s really good at.
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Tags: american in australia, black & decker, boston, canon, choose your own adventure, corporate ladder, get back on the horse, gloriously unemployed, guest blogger, job find manifesto, judd marcello, kept man, london, miami, sydney, take this job and shove it, the purse, welch foods, willfully unemployed, your unemployed partner, yuddites