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Originally posted by joanek:
One other suggesting: temping. It's not just typing these days---there are temps for everything: legal, pr, it, etc. If you've got skills, you can work as much, or as little, as you'd like. And if you don't like the job, you don't have to return....

Not to mention health insurance and paid vacations. Temping is great for someone who loves to pack up and travel. I have friends who work solidly for three months and then take a month to travel. One is a legal temp, the other is in accounting--both left high stress and high paying jobs for this vagabond lifestyle. And love it.

I haven't been on this board much this year (or traveling this year) because I have been working part-time - I'm seriously underemployed - but I have had periods in my life of being unemployed and that is worse, sitting at home day after day...I am up for a full-time position and should know what's going on with that in a few weeks. However temping might be a better idea, especially now that some temp agencies offer benefits.

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Originally posted by Comicwoman:
OK all, reread the above...that was supposed to be the tone of this thread.

I might have the FT record for unemployment and underemployment. There are a lot of reasons/issues. Those that know me, know some of them.

I'm 5 1/2 years without a permanent full-time job. (I'm single, no family here, no outside means of support...just scraping by on underemployment.)

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Originally posted by ClassicalGal:
I'm 5 1/2 years without a permanent full-time job. (I'm single, no family here, no outside means of support...just scraping by on underemployment.)

ClassicalGal, you win (if that is winning!). It has been almost 5.5 years since I left the corporate world. I have had full-time jobs, freelance work, and my current parttime job in that period. Notice I do not call them permanent. I've learned that nothing is permanent.

CG, IIRC, you are/were a dj. How bad is my memory?

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Originally posted by Comicwoman:
ClassicalGal, you win (if that is winning!). It has been almost 5.5 years since I left the corporate world. I have had full-time jobs, freelance work, and my current parttime job in that period. Notice I do not call them permanent. I've learned that nothing is permanent.

CG, IIRC, you are/were a dj. How bad is my memory?

Your memory is good. I'm a radio announcer who's been working shows on the weekends for about the past year (part of why it's been difficult to travel)...but I've been part-time and pick up extra money by also working substitute airshifts during the week as well as whatever else I can do around the radio station. There's a full-time job open now (not an announcer job) and I have applied for that. It looks promising but who knows.