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While every American, in the throes of a sixty hour work week and suffering through another needless meeting or uncomfortable harangue by their boss, might like to dream about being downsized and all of the things that they would do should more time be available, recent surveys of unemployed people have found that the reality of joblessness turns out to be far less productive (and a good deal less fun) than they would ever have thought. From the results of these current reports, unemployed people in the United States end up spending no more effort on household upkeep, personal maintenance, or, especially, self betterment in any fundamental way. Easy enough to delude oneself about the endless opportunities which unlimited time should unfurl when harried by constant office irritations, but, left to their own devices, the practical consequences of unemployment inevitably tend toward a different and far darker direction.

Despite all the promises that they may make, all the plans that they've imagined once there were enough hours in the day, newly unemployed people do not actually learn to play the piano or renovate their basement or even finish the novel that's been sitting next to the bed for the past few years. Unemployed people, as happens, are even more likely to let their home fall to disrepair and initiate dangerous habits that could range from over eating and an excess of television to over consumption of alcohol and even drug abuse. Self destructive gambling, while this might seem the most counter intuitive pursuit for unemployed people who have already lost their primary income source – although, in the same way, this might make the most sense of all for heads of household suddenly rendered powerless to help their families – might be the most common trouble, but unemployed people (and their loved ones) need to watch out for signs of problems before they become a serious issue.

To be sure, there are places around the country where the extended absence of job opportunities means that the unemployed people in the area have grown used to seasonal work or part time labor – indeed, many Americans of somewhat looser ambitions genuinely find themselves drawn to locales known for the preponderance of unemployed people – and, within these settings, the residents have fashioned a life style which expects and understands and appreciates an absence of formalized regimens. Actually, throughout the world, traditionally unemployed or underemployed people have grown customs surrounding their lessened work habits, and, certainly, our global culture's all the richer for such traditions. However, simply because so many Americans have grown to romanticize the simple life, that does not mean that suddenly unemployed people could up and forget a lifetime's training.

When folks previously trained to anticipate a more rigorously structured existence are left to their own devices, helpless indolence rarely leads to anything positive. Idle hands are the devil's plaything, and jobless workers need to maintain the same discipline which formerly guided their every week day. The speed and efficiency of state run websites in the modern age allow so many unemployed people to avoid ever entering a state office, and, while its hard to argue that filing for unemployment insurance benefits isn't tremendously easier through the use of a computer, there are several other advantages to the offices of the state unemployment department. Every day that unemployed people aren't looking for jobs, they should get down to the unemployment office and, even after they've filed for every posting, take resume writing courses, learn all that they can about the technological advances of their industry, and do everything that they can to maintain an active life until they've once again rejoined their career.


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