Your Unemployed Daughter

photo credit: WindRanch

Unfairness of unfairnesses! So, I am taking in all kinds of freelance work now, cause that’s what you do when you’re a laid-off editor who still needs to pay her rent and such, and since I work on Monday (my final day of the Great Pineapple Project, whoo-hoo!) I won’t have time to meet another impending deadline unless I put a big dent in it today. Thus, I really must hunker down and get this proofreading done.

It’s not such an onerous task, but it does involve reading some 750 captions, and making corrections as needed. Which seems like something that might go on forever, particularly when the day is sunny and it’s Sunday and I might have had a bit too much to drink last night, meaning today’s focus is more on what mortifying things I Tweeted or texted or did than on, say, how to best phrase the 25 words of an already rather cryptic photo caption.

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photo credit: Dan Dickinson

If you are like YUD, you may have wondered at some point in the last, oh, 8 and a half weeks: Am I really unemployed?

Well glory be, here’s a little test that can resolve that conundrum—as well as some of the other burning questions OTE (of this economy). And unlike that bizotch who may or may not have canned your ass, The Unemployment Quiz does not discriminate against brunettes, redheads, or those who eschew jaunty little leather jackets.

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