{"id":3254,"date":"2003-07-17T08:08:59","date_gmt":"2003-07-17T08:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3254"},"modified":"2003-07-17T08:08:59","modified_gmt":"2003-07-17T08:08:59","slug":"yikes_this_soun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3254","title":{"rendered":"Yikes, This Sounds Too Familiar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being unemployed sucks, but here’s someone making the best of it<\/a><\/p>\n

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“The first month, I was totally lost,” Higby said. “I was either moping around the house or chasing leads for jobs that were ridiculously out of my reach. But now I have experience under my belt.” <\/p>\n

Through a months-long process of trial and error, Higby has learned the tricks of the unemployment trade. <\/p>\n

“Leaving the house every single day is very important, even if it’s just to spend a few hours at the coffee shop organizing the MP3 files on your laptop,” Higby said. “I try to be out the door by 2 or 3 in the afternoon—no exceptions. You have to get out and do something during the day in order to not feel guilty about going out drinking that night.” <\/p>\n

Higby warned strongly against going to bed too early. [The Onion<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I love The Onion. It’s almost sad how much this article sounds like some parts of my life (not everything since I don’t go out drinking really). But it’s a fun read anyways. Anyone wanna hire an out of work computer geek with 10 years of sysadmin experience?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being unemployed sucks, but here’s someone making the best of it “The first month, I was totally lost,” Higby said. “I was either moping around the house or chasing leads for jobs that were ridiculously out of my reach. But now I have experience under my belt.” Through a months-long process of trial and error, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}