My Year on Unemployment

In two weeks and two days, my one year anniversary of losing my job will be upon me. I don't really know how I feel about it just yet. I think it has been a mixed blessing. But I'm kind of tired of being unemployed. It really has a lot of qualities and characteristics that I do not enjoy. Like, a lack of funds. A feeling of inadequacy and uselessness. It has provided me the opportunity to do stand-up comedy. Which I REALLY like doing. I've had lots o'time to work on my portfolio, as well as other ideas and thingies that are fun. Still...a whole year of joblessness kind of blows.

I am quite the thankful guy for having family and friends to fall back on. A lot of people don't, and are jobless with mountains of debt and no where to turn. All in all, I could be in a lot worse shape.

But I suppose what is bothering me the most about my current situation, and I'm sure it is bothering many of my unemployed brethren, is this talk that the recession is coming to an end. People like yours truly look at the bank bailouts, the auto bailouts, the everybody gets a bailout bailouts, we see the stock market back up above 10,000 and rising, we see giant bonuses from the ass hats whose jobs were saved with government money, and it makes the chip on the shoulder even bigger. People are still suffering. People have no where to turn. The hope they, and I, put in the Obama Administration to hold those responsible for the economic shitstorm to the fire is pretty much gone. When hope is gone, what's left?

Seems like a mighty good time for some kind of revolution amongst the "proletariat." Since we're about to be socialist anyway (according to this guy), I think some old-fashioned Marxist revolution might be in order.

Or someone could placate me and hire me. Either way.