Imagine a guy on the first day of his job search, the day after he’s been told that his current job will no longer exist. You’d figure he’d send out a few emails, call a few contacts, surf a few job web sites, and then just relax because it’s his first day of externally imposed freedom, right? But for some reason it feels weird when that same guy spends all day sitting around watching TV shows that are queued up on his Tivo. Even if that guy took vacation days in the past, doing the exact same thing.

On a different note, I bet I was a lot more attractive when I had a job, compared to when I didn’t.

I went to work late today because I had a stomachache last night. Well, it was also because I was demotivated by the prospect of not having a job soon, and knowing that meant that I probably had no work to do because what can they assign you to do in a few weeks?

On a completely different note (COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. REMEMBER, THIS IS NOT RELATED TO THE THING ABOVE!) can anyone who has successfully found a job to give me any hints they have? Since 1991, all the jobs I’ve found have been through referrals. Basically, friends tell me when there are openings and get me in the door. I have been incredibly unsuccessful in finding jobs through other means like monster, the classifieds, etc.

I went to the gym for the first time in weeks and I’m underwhelmed. I suppose there could be other factors suppressing any joy I can get from life, but I’m uncertain what that could be. Certainly it couldn’t be work, or the burglary, or the strife in the neighborhood, or any other such thing, could it?