Your typical unemployed day

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To all those reading this I presume you are unemployed or employed and not working :p

I was made redundant just over a week ago and wondered what your typical day was like. There are many people unemployed in the UK, some that have been unemployed all their lives. I really dont know how they cope with not having a job and wonder how they pass (or waste) the time (/lives)

Heres me at the moment -

9 - Get up, get breakfast and watching some tv, usually news or sky sports/news

10 - Search online for any new job posts, fill out applications, checking forums etc

12 - More tv, at the moment I am getting back into scrubs and havent yet stooped as low as jeremy kyle!

2 - Another quick search before exercise, go for a run, weights/general exercise in house then shower

3 - This is the part where I get bored as I am fired up for something but dont really know what so just end up lazing around until mates return from work at 5.30 (probably why I am writing this!)

Not every day is like this, I have been speaking to agencies, rang about a job today, go into town for whatever reason, walk to the shops...

I really dont see how people can go on without working. Having said that when I was working I felt like had been mentally raped at the end of some days. I would be knackered and love for a day off doing nothing. I have quickly learnt that this is only fun if you also work!
 
Wake up at mid day, 6 hours of watching anime, housemates come home, 3 hours of eating/talking, watch films until 3am, sleep.

Pretty much the same for the last 18 months.

Brilliant.
 
2pm - Wake up, breakfast.

2pm-7pm - Star Trek: TNG on DVD, maybe search for jobs/apprenticeships.

7pm - Dindins.

8pm-3am - Games/Films/DVDs/Other.


I do not own an Xbox.
 
Gardening and DIY on days i am not working, that and plenty of reading random articles on the internet and a good amount of Discovery and Nat Geo channels.
 
8:45 - get up
9:00 eat and watch morning tv
10:30 ok i'm bored now
11:00 go out and be more bored
bored
bored
bored
browse net
bored
clean house
bored
bored
can't motivate myself to go to gym so browse net again
have tea
bored
watch tv
sit in garden
watch tv
bored
bed
 
11am - get up, breakfast
12pm- rest of the day - sit on forums/facebook/whatever.

Need a job...
 
Finished College last week and we're all unsure whether the course is continuing so.

- Get up, shower, log in Darkfall Online and mine some nodes while alt tabbing out to check job websites.

- Watch Fraser & eat toast

- check e-mails and then I might go swimming.
 
Distinct lack of CV flyering in there.

This, you hardly ever get responses from emails. Unless it's an on-line application straight to the employer. visit agencies and stuff in person and try random companies asking if they have any jobs.

11am - get up, breakfast
12pm- rest of the day - sit on forums/facebook/tv/pc games whatever.

Need a job...

This kind of

6-6:30 get up,
6:45 start work
midday ish get home
rest of the day - sit on forums/facebook/whatever.

I hope we get busy again, only Saturday night shifts at the moment and without night shifts we do not need day shifts.
Either that or I need to start some time hungry hobbies or find some way of making money
 
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Get up.
Go the gym/town/cinema.
Eat Lunch.
Watch football/tennis or read.
Sort out my impending tour of Europe.
Watch more football/tennis or read.
Eat tea.
Play football/golf or watch more football/tennis or read.
Go to bed.
 
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8:45 - get up
9:00 eat and watch morning tv
10:30 ok i'm bored now
11:00 go out and be more bored
bored
bored
bored
browse net
bored
clean house
bored
bored
can't motivate myself to go to gym so browse net again
have tea
bored
watch tv
sit in garden
watch tv
bored
bed

This.
 
Get up
Breakfast
Go on the computer
Do whatever jobs my mum told me to do
Game/browse the net
Lunch
Game/browse the net/go out
Dinner
Game/browse the net
Sleep

I don't get too bored surprisingly, I'm looking for a job too.
 
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