Being Lazy Pays Off!

Sometimes, it pays off to be lazy.

Just now I got off my ass and filed for unemployment. Actually, I got ON my ass and filed for unemployment. I was comfortably seated while I filled out the forms on the internet. Actually - I was comfortably lying in my bed while filling out the form over the internet. I got a laptop in 2000 because my desktop computer crapped out. I have never gone back to the old school style of computer that needs to be plugged in.

So anyway, I filled out the forms. And I learned a few things in the process!

1. By law, there is a "waiting week". You are not paid for the waiting week. I did not know this!

So by putting this off, I took care of my waiting week without really waiting! My waiting week ended the same day I filled out all the crap (today). This means I can start claiming weeks starting next week - Monday October 23.

Also, I got my last check from the former job today. And it is a massive phat check. All my unused holiday and annual hours were cashed out. So I was able to claim my full earnings for the current year - had I applied sooner my actual earnings would have been slightly understated - and therefore my benefits would have been a little bit lower.

Hey - you have to be accurate with these things! If I commit fraud it is a felony! I want to be as accurate with all this as possible.

And I had to select a "desired career". Now NOWHERE was anything even close to my former job listed. So I had to pick another desired career. You know, so the State can help me find a new job.

Here are some things I saw that made me pause.

1. Dishwasher
2. Short Order Cook
3. Migrant Farm Worker

Does ANYONE actually select these jobs? I mean, it asks you what you WANT to do, not what you did in your last job. It very clearly said DESIRED JOB. People desire to be a dishwasher? And migrant farm worker? Can illegal immigrants file for unemployment? Are citizens migrant farm workers? Very strange.

Anyhow I selected "astronomer". Why not. I have a telescope and stuff already! I know like three or four constellations, and even the names of a few stars. Oh yea and I know all EIGHT planets. Pluto is not a planet anymore - it is an "ice dwarf". Ill bet you did not know that! And on top of all this - I keep astronomer hours! Right now, staying up all night and sleeping all day would not really require me to change my hours of operation very much.

So now the fun part. I hang out for a bit, and when I have to go to the one stop employment center I get to see if the State has any leads on a cool astronomer job.