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Unemployment Sucks
By Molly's Brother | October 7, 2006
I haven’t been posting lately because, well, because I don’t have much to write about. What am I doing with my extra money? What am I doing to limit my spending? What creative ways have I created to make my retirement savings grow? NONE.
Being unemployed means two things:
Spending Plummets. Few who find themselves unemployed follow this Cardinal Rule of Unemployment. However, it is one sure fire way to keep yourself out of a financial mess once you start working again. Once people find themselves without work, they continue with their same standard of living: pizzas still arrive at their door, dinners are still eaten out, movies are still seen. The simple fact about debt remainds: To stay out of debt you must spend less than you earn. And, if you’re unemployed, you have to spend a lot less.
Money Goes Towards The Essentials and Nothing More It’s so frustrating to me that all my money is slowly being farmed out only to bills, bills, bills.
This is part of the reason why I have so little to say lately. A lot of my time has been spent looking for work and preparing for grad school.
But I’ll be back!
Topics: Debt, Your Budget |
October 7th, 2006 at 10:21 pm
the part of unemployment that kills me is how
friends seem to believe that your standard of living
doesn’t need to change.
i’m getting incredibly frustrated by friends who
don’t understand that I don’t have money to go out drinking, go to the movies, go to a superfancy restaurant or a lot of other stuff.
i don’t want to be rude but I’m about to practice my mission statement:
I don’t have the money to socialize right now.
unemployment has educated me to the reality that people are very much self-absorbed and could care less about anyone else’s reality but their own.
October 8th, 2006 at 11:57 pm
Sorry to hear about your troubles. I hope you find something soon.
Lorie
October 13th, 2006 at 3:54 am
Good luck with grad school & the jobhunt!
Not-so-sidenote: When I was unemployed, I found that sporadic “treats” eased the pain of bills, bills, bills. GL!