Post: #26

Fly to South America...problem solved

Post: #27

Im in the same boat. Been underemployed for 6 months and first it was enjoyable, but now it just sucks. I try to send out 1 top notch application a day and do some productive shit with my time. Like the others said, work out, read, fix personal things that need to be fixed.
My game doesnt suffer, since you dont need to spend a lot of money going out meeting women. My budget for a night out is maybe 20€. Just go to some venue without cover charge, predrink at home and you are good to go. On a typical bar date you drink what, maybe 2-3 drinks? Thats about 10€, 15€ max. No need to be dropping serious cash, just serious game and you'll get girls while being broke as shit. You options are limited, but you still have some.
There are some old post where Roosh talks about living unemployed in his dads basement and still gets laid on the regular. Read those if you need some inspiration.

Post: #28

The job market here is abysmal, and I entered the fulltime market living on my own with no degree just as it crashed. I haven't had steady employment for a year or more since my teens, I've been unemployed now 3 1/2 out of the past 4 years, and I'm (while not a grad) fairly well educated and have done pretty much everything. I ended up starting my own parttime business because nobody would hire me. Don't be ashamed or let it get you down, these are much rougher times than most people even here on this forum realize.
YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

Post: #29

Here are a few ideas for you:

1. Get some under the table work.

2. Relocate to a cheap place overseas.

3. Read Tim Ferriss' 4 hour workweek, especially the part about "filling the void."

4. Start messing around with affiliate marketing.

5. Start a business, offline or offline, that requires little or no startup capital - many service businesses fill this criteria. Avoid partners at all costs. Read this book for inspiration and guidance: Work From Home At Any Age: A Self-made Millionaire Reveals How You Can Create the Debt-free Business http://www.amazon.com/Work-Home-Any-Age-...at+any+age

6. Write out your 4 most current goals in life. Write out a plan for achieving them USING THE RESOURCES YOU HAVE NOW and use your time for that.

7. Hop on someone's sailboat and hitch a ride around the world, even if you have to fork out dough for expenses. (This is probably the one I'd pick if I had time and money and didn't absolutely have to work)

Beyond All Seas

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes
frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Kipling

Post: #30

First off, Craigslist is shit for jobs, dont even bother. I had an intermittant job about two years ago that lasted a few months, good money too if it would have lasted. After my last assignment I was laid off for a little over a year and let me tell you it was one of the worst times of my life. For the first few months it wasnt too bad because the unemployment checks kept rolling in. In the meantime I was hoping they would pay for some vocational training as a way to expand horizons(didnt happen they fucked me over). After that ended is when the real horror started. Everyday my folks would hassle me and give me hell for not having a job and not looking hard enough, like I wasnt even trying,which I was. After countless interviews, polished resumes and being humiliated I finally landed a job in an office. I know its hard out there but be diligent and use networking to your advantage, its normally the only way nowadays.

Post: #31

I feel you pain man. I'm 26, college grad (BA Lib arts *facepalm) and I've been unemployed since March. Quit my full time $12/hr soul sucking airport sales job and went to UK to get a CELTA ESL certificate then hung out in Germany. Miscalculated how long it would take me to get a job back home while I landed a teaching gig and have been living with my recently-divorced, underemployed mother since May.
It has been an emotionally and mentally excrutiating event getting bitched on the reg. by a scarred woman, and knowing that you're supposed to be a man who handles his. EBT and handouts from relatives (and mom) is what I have been going on - it sucks big time. But I had an epiphany in June and decided that the only way that I can pull myself out've this and become a man, gain technical skills, and become self sufficient and not remain a man-child is to join the Army- I ship out next month.

Like some of the other guys have said:
Wake up early- 8ams good
Workout regularly (weights and running)
Read a WHOLE lot
Browse the Gigs section in CL-You'll develop a good BS filter and score some much needed cash w/o much delay -Made money pissing for drug tests and writing essays

What I advise:
Stop drinking on the weekdays -kills your energy
Stop smoking cigs and weed - gets expensive, robs your health, flunks you out of the drug test

Hope that helps, good luck bro

Post: #32

(10-22-2012 10:09 PM)IpsaScientiaPotestasEst Wrote:  Another hard thing, is that it is EASY to feel alone when you are unemployed/underemployed and that you are the ONLY one going through it while you see others with work and what not-hell people younger than you that you KNOW you work harder than or are likely smarter than. DON'T believe the hype on peoples Facebooks (don't even get me started on how fake FB has become these days) and know you ARE NOT (!!) alone in this. I think I'm going through a rough ass time, and then I realize there are people married or with kids who are going through this shit. There time is NO better time to learn how to improve yourself than during this time RIGHT now.

Well said brother. It's easy to feel like you're out on a branch and FB becomes an easy distraction esp. for unemployed 20-something guys. I've been FB free since August. Really effs with your pysche and self-development when you're spending your time focused on everyone else's life and not focusing on improving your own.

Post: #33

(10-17-2012 07:33 AM)unstoppableflow Wrote:  Hey dudes,
been unemployed for 3 months now - and starting to go out of my mind.

Initially the free time was a blessing but now I am finding it hard to motivate myself to find work, let alone to game or improve my lifestyle.

Anyone been in the same situation? How did you cope?

Same here, but it's been more like 11 months.

I'm pretty highly qualified in a technical field but there's only a few locations i could do it in, and my father's ill so ive been trying to get work near to where we live. which has zero opportunities. i'm losing out basic retail jobs to highschoolers, because the companies, and i quote " we think you're overqualified" which is universal code for we can pay lower minimum wage to 16 year olds.


what have i done in this excess of time?
-climbed africa's highest mountain (granted this was planned before i graduated)
-started 4 internet businesses (all busts, but i'm getting experience)
-caught up on a lot of roosh's booklist
-workout regularly and lost about 35lbs this year
-better food, better cook
-learning programming for javascript (codeacademy is super cheesy but super useful for this)
-learned passable french and have managed to get a more international group of friends, while cutting out some of the time absorbers/hangers on from uni days



i dont take any job seekers allowance (uk's social welfare) as a matter of principle, but i would say i'm lucky in that we have a house to live in, and i would probably throw those principles under a truck if i were on my own.


oh and i probably learned alot more man lessons from spending so much time with my father now, then i have in the last 15 years.

so i would say hang in there man.

Post: #34

Last time I was unemployed, I spent a month inside my garage building a car. Stripped it down to less than a bare shell, replaced everything in the car but the doors (seriously), and got it running before I was out of money.

Last time I was unemployed before that... I was actually doing the exact same thing on a different car.

Each time I finished the car and then rejoined the workforce right before I was out of money.

I see the periods of unemployment as opportunities to finally do all the shit I've been wanting to do, cashflow permitting.

Post: #35

“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”
-Henry Ford

I think this sums it up nicely , we are meant for so much more than a regular paycheque. The stigma of unemployment comes from the uncertainty, embrace uncertainty.