Category Archives: Unemployed Average Joe

I think anyone in a position where they have time on their hands have this need to keep busy. I’ve been no different; trying to do the usual household stuff and different “busy” things around the house. But I’ve already found myself in this daily ritual. I’ve purposefully been keeping to a schedule, albeit Nicole’s schedule. In bed around 10pm and up at 5:30am. I know if left to my own devices, I would end up being a night owl with some goofy sleep schedule. I don’t want to fall into that cycle.

My day starts out with a cup of coffee and general straightening up until Nicole heads off to work. Then it’s catching up on emails, job hunting, social networks, weather, more coffee, more surfing and then to this blog. That covers about my first hour. I’m kidding, I can actually get lost pretty easily in surfing and the process to submit a resume online these days, damn it’s time consuming. After lunch, I’ve been able to spend time exercising and then back to blog reading, the job hunt or familiarizing myself with WordPress. I’m sure most would love to have this much time on their hands, but it is quite the learning curve for me. I’m hopeful the job hunt starts to pay off and I get a few calls. I’m impatient with just about everything, and this whole process, I know it can take some time.

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So yesterday’s recap: Cleaned a little bit from items I “missed” the day before. Began my journey through Healthcare.gov, got some exercising in, spent some time surfing, and ran to the library. All before lunch.

On the agenda for today? Not sure yet. Right now, I’m enjoying a cup of coffee, writing this post and surfing. I was going to cook dinner later. See, I’ve been working my way up with cooking dinner. The first day we had leftovers so I was off the hook. Yesterday, I made garlic bread, broccoli, and ravioli we picked up at Costco. Side note: we’ve had two of Costco’s ravioli, Irish cheese and also Italian sausage, both awesome! But making ravioli is pretty straight forward. I was going to make General Tso chicken with rice and broccoli, but we still have leftovers so I’ll work on my dinner skills tomorrow.

I was considering purging some things from our garage via Craigslist. We have accumulated quite a bit of crap over the years we don’t really need. But Nicole mentioned maybe we should have a garage sale when it warms up. We’ve always been put off by the work involved (we call it the Laziness Factor). But now, I can put the time in to prepping. So next week when it warms up here, I’m planning on cleaning out the one side of the garage that is kind of a pit for the moment. Then I can start identifying items we can sell. I like the idea of getting rid of unnecessary/unused things, this will be a good opportunity.

So our readers are aware, I created a new category: Unemployed Average Joe. If you have no desire to see my ramblings, you have an out!

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Technically, this is the second day I’ve been home. It’s the first day though where I’m a little, well bored. Yes, bored already. My job was a pretty damn busy one. A job with long hours, one I would bring home at nights, weekends, early mornings. I had more than enough to do. From that hectic pace to a screeching halt is hard to figure out. This morning I found myself pacing around the house. For no reason, just walking around like a caged animal. Nicole will see this and probably start me a list of things to do. : ) I know there’s plenty of things I can be doing around the house, just nothing I’m ready to jump into. I did clean yesterday. I went through a basic house cleaning so the place looks respectable. And I’m up for the challenge (read: learning curve) of managing the house and everything that goes with it since I’m home all day. It’s not an issue of me not wanting to do the work. I’m home all the time now, so I should bear the weight of maintaining the house.

We already take advantage of everything our library has to offer. There’s quite a bit at our local library. Aside from the obvious book selection, there’s a really good selection of movies (including new movies), CDs and video games. All with no fees. Why spend money on Redbox when I can get movies/video games for free? So yesterday I hit the library and picked up some computer related books on things such as WordPress (Nicole is really the blog site manager of the two of us, I need some help), Ubuntu and even Python along with some audio CDs. We’ll see what I actually get through with the books. I’m feeling pretty motivated for today, but it almost feels like there are too many things I’d like to get my hands into at the moment. I think that is pretty normal at this moment in time for someone in my position. I should point out there are many times Redbox will give out free rental codes, so Redbox isn’t all bad. You just have to keep your eye out for them. I’ll try to post them on here or on FB when I come across them so you all can take advantage of saving a few bucks. So be sure to follow us by clicking on the social media icons in the top right corner.

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Well, like it or not I am now unemployed. I’m not going to spend the time venting here about the job and the issues that brought me to where I am today (sitting at home at 8am on a Wednesday instead of being at work). But what I am going to start to write about are some of the things I get to go through on my journey. What the hell do we do about finances? Budget? Insurance? Job hunting? There will be a host of fun things to talk about.

I’ll be back soon. My newfound “freedom” has afforded me plenty of one thing, time.

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