The Importance of Being Unemployed

As 1:00 pm rolls around, I lay half-awake and think about the effort to be exerted if I choose to get motivated. After deliberating an instant, I decide against my conscience and let my thoughts drift away far enough to keep me from getting out of bed.

I have been unemployed now for twenty-one days and I am a good prospect to go another twenty-one. My speculation of returning to the conventionalism of employment fills my thoughts in perpetuation. In time, I realize with money and my stomach as the motivating factors, I will have to return involuntarily to the ranks of the employed. Until that time arrives and after, I will continue to appreciate the importance of being unemployed.

By being unemployed, you have a certain amount of time in which you can be with yourself. This time used profoundly can be very beneficial in the development of your character and individuality. New interests and and new ideas of old interests will arise if one’s curiosity and imagination will take those creative steps to discover them.

The initial step is to destroy your television set. A simple 9-iron or a hammer should prove sufficient.

(circa 1983, Tucson, Arizona.)