Monday 31 October 2011

A Day in the Life of an Unemployed...

Someone once said, ‘The Hardest work in the world is being out of work’ & I must say I totally agree with it. Every morning when I wake up it feels like I’m on a job that I do not enjoy at all. What started out as a well-deserved vacation has now turned into a period of I-desperately-need-a-job. My mind it seems has gone into hibernation mode and only a very small part of the brain needed for everyday functioning is awake and running.

My day begins around the time when offices are getting ready for their lunch break. I have but forgotten what a breakfast feels like. By the time I have read the news, the world has moved on from them and has found newer issues to deal with. So after completing that pointless exercise, I go up to my room to check my emails, Facebook updates and sports news. Such is my routine that I open the websites in the same order day after day.

The day’s first moments of any kind of real activity or excitement comes in the form of an argument that my mother and I have everyday over if I should take a bath before having my lunch. We have the same argument every day, but it is still difficult to predict who will win on that particular day. Some days I win and have my lunch with a slight sense of victory while on other days I have to reluctantly give in and take a bath! Whoever came up with this rule probably didn't have a life himself.

Afternoons are generally a busy time. I lie down on my couch and watch a film or the latest episode of one of the many series I follow. The temperature being so high just makes a person even lazier and I for one don’t feel like doing anything. Even the small job of pausing the video to go and answer nature’s call seems very tedious!

Evenings are much more bearable. I’m either out meeting and hanging out with friends or at home counting every second till it is time for dinner. Dinner time means sitting down with family downstairs and eating together and watching some television. This by the way is the only time of the day when I watch TV, so you can imagine just how much time I spend in front of my laptop!

After dinner I come back to my room and it is that time of the day when I realise that I’m wasting precious time and how I should be looking harder for a job. Every night I also look at my blog and tell myself to write something. But every time I sit down to write something, it is too much for the small functioning part of my brain to process and it short-circuits. In other words to protect its vital functioning parts it sends me into day-dreaming mode. Though creative juices have all but dried up, it is a wonder how I get to watch a new dream every night! The brain of ours is indeed an incredible organ!

Anyway the point of writing all the above is nothing but another way of telling myself to get out this sorry state of living and get a job!

19 comments:

  1. Nice one.. the most honest blog ever written.. so truly u... ...... ..... the laziest being on earth..

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  2. Srinivas Hariharan31 October 2011 at 08:40

    I am with you on this, i briefly experienced this here, when I wasnt getting a part-time job, and dreading the dollar to rupee conversion with every buck i shelled out :P!! Just keep at it, you will come outta this dreaded job!!

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  3. :)....i cn totally understand how it feels....I may crib and cry that I just get a sunday off...but believe me, when i have no plans, even that sunday seems so loong & i cant wait to get back to work on Monday .

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  4. with the magazine award, u wont be jobless for too long!

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  5. I can so relate to you. Usually I fight with mom for getting up late and not being there on time for breakfast. Nice post. :) :)

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  6. haha! so we are in the same boat then!! thank you!! :)

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  7. Haha! yeah I hope so too!! :)

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  8. Haha! thank you Srini! Btw, I've heard you are doing quite well there!! Keep it up! :)

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  9. Laziest at home yes. But at the same time when the time comes for work, I'm one of the most hard working person! :)

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  10. Very much impressed in learning your present daily routine. What, I recollect all the great sorts of world like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi must have spent their time in this way. These facts will be needed to write your biography, I preserve these facts.
    U.S.Misra.

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  11. OMG thats so me..i can so relate with it...
    but now that i have a job that suckss.... i actually miss those days... :) but it was the other way round for me wen it came to writing.. i discovered that i can do much better than i thought i cud wen i was idle at home and wud always keep writing abt somethin or other..

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  12. Tu and writer! That is something I didn't know re! So if it takes you to be jobless to be able to write properly, then come December when you are jobless, I'll make you write a lot!! :)

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  13. Nice post. I could totally relate it to myself :)
    -
    Anshul Dutt
    http://pixelbuffet.blogspot.com/

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  14. Thank You Anshul!!
    It is surprising to see just how many people can relate to it!! :)
    We are all in the same boat it seems!

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  15. Life is funny, what you don't have is always better than what you have .. and we keep on looking back with nostalgia or looking ahead with ancipation ..

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  16. staying without job is a pain that teaches life's lesson of valuing one as we attain and then gather all the career focus there:-0 interesting read

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