If you were to see me in the street and ask me what's the date, what the day of the week is, or what time it is chances are I would not know and would have to think about it. For those of you who don't know I am currently unemployed and living on EI (pogey, newfie pay etc). To many men EI is somewhat of a dream; I mean who wouldn't want to get a paycheck and not go to work and at first I was one of those who thought it would be cool. But now I am starting to go crazy! Days just blend into the other, and they just drag on. I have become the happy home-maker. I am gaining weight and becoming a slob. And I am bored!
I'm sure most of you are like, "Well get a job then!" Not that easy. My EI is slightly more than a full-time minimum-wage, so just getting any job doesn't make any sense; I have bills to pay, specifically student loan payments. I can't even work a little bit because it may jeopardize my EI claim. I need to find a job that would pay just as much or more to quit the EI, and it either seems that they are in Alberta or I am not qualified. It will be interesting to see how it turns out in the spring. I actually looking forward to having a lot of time to help with Basketball; hopefully I won't go crazy before season begins.
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I know the feeling of days running into each other. Some days when I was unemployed I felt that way.
Erin
Adam, you could always come and work with me at BP's. . . that would be fun, huh? Actually, I hate my job so I'm sure it would suck for you too. You wanna form a lottery pool then we could pay off our debts and then do whatever we wanted.
hey adam...dun worry we'll be prayin 4 ya over here...
tamera...mlbc staff
Just make sure you call me up for that lottery pool.
Hey Adam, it's Wilton. Reading your post I can't help but notice once again how ironic life is: to me, having time off work and getting free money seems awesome, meanwhile you can't wait to get a job and be working again. Like you already described in the post. I just think life is so weird that way.
Anyway, best of luck searching for that elusive status called 'gainful employment.' I haven't quite succeeded in this area yet but at least I'm working a bit....
Hope you find something soon bro. No doubt once you do get working you'll be so busy you'll be pining for the good 'ol days of pogey. (doh)
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