4
"One of the only upsides of unemployment, you’d think, would be the free time that you’d have to do things that can be tough to squeeze into a normal work day — like going to the gym, or gardening, or just walking around the grocery store. But at least with men, the extra time doesn’t translate into more activity. A study conducted by researchers at the National Institute on Aging and published online in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine finds that even men employed in sedentary jobs (say, blogging, to pick something out of a hat) get more daily physical activity than men unemployed for reasons other than poor health."
—Why yes, I'm WORKING OUT right now!
Horseshit. I'm going on four months now of unemployment and I can't tell you how much FIFA 2k11 I've finally had the time to play.
Wow. Commuting to work counts as exercise. So up yours, judgmental gym front-desk lady. Turns out I 'reach a certain threshold of physical activity' every day without you, unlike the jobless masses who, apparently, literally do not get out of bed before noon? Whatever. To everyone out there who thinks that standing up on the subway = exercise… enjoy being fat.
This may seem cornball but I have noticed that my laziness begets laziness and being busy tempts me to get even busier. It's either "burning the candle at both ends" or crawl-into-a-hole-and-sulk with me. Crawl into a hole and sulk with me, would you?
Who woulda thunk that poverty, alienation and depression would be such a time-suck.