Laid-off dotcommers – the new slackers? Salon weighs in with a couple of profiles of people who took their dotcom payoffs and dropped out.
“Everyone loved to hate the grungy, cafe-dwelling slackers of the early ’90s who, midrecession, felt unmotivated and disillusioned about their job prospects when their career options looked like the mailroom or pulling lattes.
When the same kids turned into stock-optioned dot-commers working 80-hour weeks, they became a new kind of cultural whipping boy, at fault for gentrification and the stock market bubble. Hate them when they don’t work. Hate them when they strive and work too much. So why work?”
I love dogs as much as anyone, but I worry about this guy:
“When John Pike, 37, was laid off from his job as a Web programmer for ComedyWorld in mid-January, he was already planning to quit in order to spend time with his new puppy…
“I’m not actively looking for full-time work, and I’m even considering doing something like walking dogs, because I’ve met a bunch of dog walkers and they make tons of money.”
… and I feel for this embittered person who can’t get laid off.
“There are people winning, just not the hard workers. These days, the real winners are those who manage to get out under the wire before stuff gets really bad. The payoff? One month to just sit around watching daytime TV and doing your laundry. A paid vacation. Then, a month of solid job searching. Did I mention that you’re collecting unemployment this whole time?
So, during those two months, you’re actually making more than if you had to get up every day and watch your place of employment gasp its dying breaths.”
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