I know what you mean.
I'm among the unemployed - have been since September. I deliberately took September - January after losing my job as a kind of hiatus so I could travel a bit, and just enjoy some time off (been working 16 years with maybe a week or two off each year).
I now spend 1-2 hours a day sending off resumes, and since February I've had 5 interviews. My friends who are also unemployed marvel at this, as they've been unemployed longer....but they're not doing anything about it! This infuriates me when they bitch and moan that they can't get a job.
Another friend in the same boat who is doing the same as me has been on some of the same interviews as me as we're in the same field. But that's 'cos she's trying, too!
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Mon 5 Apr 2010, 19:15, Reply)