Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Day One of Unemployment

So back in December...December 17th to be exact, I was laid off from my job along with 9 other people. That was round 1 of 3 layoffs my company will be doing over the next 6 months. I kept working, from home thankfully, and remained on payroll up until today. Yesterday I turned in my laptop and badge and now...well, here I am on the computer because I'm not quite sure what to do with myself.

I have been employed for the last 20 years which means I've had a routine for the last 20 years. Today I got up, checked my email, and just finished the daily online job hunt (which let's face it, is never REALLY "done"), and will be going to the gym shortly, but then what do I do? It's not like I can go shopping. I can't call up friends and hang out with them because they are all at work!

I cleaned out and organized closets and drawers all last week. I still have a few more of those I can do. My house can't really get much cleaner since I'm constantly cleaning out of boredom. SIGH...I just keep waiting for that brilliant idea to hit me. You know the one that people who are living out of their cars and begging for food get hit with that causes them to invent something or open some store and go from homeless to billionaire in nano seconds? Yeah, that one. I mean how hard is it to come up with an idea like the flipping Snuggie?

Ok I'm going to stop complaining and go brainstorm while I organize a closet or something. Maybe I'll post some before and after pics.

P.S. With all this cleaning and organizing, I've lost count of how many times last week I said, "OMG, I've been looking for this FOREVER!" :)