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Sky and I were talking a few weeks ago about what we’d do if we got laid off. We reasoned that staying in a big city with no jobs is expensive, and that we didn’t want to make a move to another city without jobs. Our backup plan, which has now become more of a layoff fantasy, is to move to Maine. Sky’s cousin lives in a small town there and is refurbishing a commercial space into a gallery/cafe. We figure we could live pretty cheaply there, feel part of a arty community/commune, and work part time on different projects while enjoying a year or two away from the clamor.
I’ve always wanted to live in an old church or barn and refurbish it to make it cozy. Also, I like farms and I miss small towns. I imagine that I’d learn how to do some cool burly woodwork. I’m also a big believer in taking opportunities to do something different once in awhile. Jobs make us live grownup lives, so it’s up to us to inject as much life as we can into the time in between.
If you got laid off, or if someone gave you a wad of money (big or small) and told you to go somewhere and do something different, what would you do?
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April 24, 2009Well, my job is Miss A so I hope it never ends. But if I had a day job and I had money saved up I’d travel.
David
May 17, 2009We’ve been thinking about this quite a bit, as there were just massive layoffs at Lulu’s workplace (not her, yet). One thing that isn’t on my layoff ‘to do’ list is attend a bunch of kind of awkward parties where people drink a lot and put a brave face on things. Yeh – went to one of these. Ew.
Lu thinks she’ll look into teaching. BUZZ: wrong answer, now anyway. Ah – teach english in China. Which leaves me – where? hmmm…
I’d like to combine two of the choices – tropical bumming (off my dad, who lives in Hawaii) and writer. I could swing that for a few years, while I wait for some entrenched librarian to die.