Breathing Space

It is great to be funemployed.

It is great, as long as you make that decision to enjoy your funemployment.

What makes it fun is the absence of the usual stresses associated with work.

·        The stresses of meeting deadlines.

·        The stresses of the annual performance appraisal cycle.

·        The stress of office politics.

It is great to relax in the sun, to post blogs whenever there is something to write about and to jump into the pool when the weather is hot.

Funemployment represents freedom. It is the dream of those striving to liberate themselves from the corporate prison. It can free your mind and it can free your soul.

There is just one drawback of being funemployed. This drawback is the single disadvantage to the whole thing. It is a drawback that places limits on that freedom, and produces counter stresses against those from which you have been freed. The drawback is money.

Being funemployed means that there is no income coming into the bills just don’t go away. Food does not become free. So the stress then brings us back to finding another corporate job. It brings about worry about how to meet the bills. Will it be possible to keep the house and the car? Will we be able to feed the family?

These stresses somehow take the fun out of being funemployed.