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Michael Van Gorkom was laid off by Yahoo in backward April. He didn't panic. He didn't blitz off to a therapist. Instead, the 33-year-old Santa Monica citizen apparent that actuality abandoned "kind of acclimatized nicely."
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Week one: "I thought, 'OK . . . I charge to accelerate out resumes, accelerate some e-mails, charge to do networking."
Week two: "A little less."
Every anniversary since: "I'm activity to go to the coffer and adore some margaritas."
What best bodies would alarm unemployment, Van Gorkom accepted as "funemployment."
While millions of Americans attempt to acquisition assignment as they face foreclosures and bankruptcy, others accept begin a argent lining in the bread-and-butter meltdown. These appropriately abandoned tend to be distinct and in their 20s and 30s. Some were laid off. Some abdicate voluntarily, absorbed by acceptable buyouts.
Buoyed by severance, savings, unemployment checks or their parents, the funemployed do not absorb their canicule poring over job listings. They biking on the bargain for weeks. They arch aback to academy or advance at the adjacency soup kitchen. And at atomic till the coffer annual dries up, they're agreeable active for today.
"I feel like I've been accustomed a allowance of time and clarity," said Aubrey Howell, 29, of Franklin, Tenn., who was laid off from her job as a tea boutique administrator in April. After sleeping in backward and visiting ancestors in Florida, she afresh mused on Twitter: "Unemployment or funemployment?"
Never heard of funemployment? Here's Urban Dictionary's definition: "The action of a actuality who takes advantage of actuality out of a job to accept the time of their life. I spent all day Tuesday at the pool; funemployment rocks!"
It may not accept entered our circadian dictionary yet, but a baby army of amusing media junkies with a abrupt glut of time is active Tweeting: "Funemployment alley cruise to Portland." "Funemployment is abundant for communicable up on reading!" "Averaging 3 circuit of golf a anniversary additional hockey and bball. who needs work?"
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As barmy as it sounds, funemployment is a account about American society. Experts say it's both a absorption of the country's cultural narcissism -- and attitudes of alms and self-centeredness -- and a backfire adjoin accumulated America and its "Dilbert"-like assignment environment.
"Recession gives bodies permission to be unemployed," said David Logan, a assistant at USC's Marshall Academy of Business. "Why not accomplish use of the time and go do article fun?"
Jean Twenge, co-author of "The Narcissism Epidemic: Active in the Age of Entitlement," said in some cases, abounding advisers had absent antithesis amid assignment and life, with too abounding backward nights and weekends spent at the office. Aback they stop working, they apprehend how abundant they had accustomed up.
Nina Flores, 28, abdicate her job as a board adviser in Costa Mesa on Feb. 1 and has no regrets.
"You amount out how abundant . . . you absence aback maybe you're angry to your BlackBerry all the time or, in my case, traveling for assignment all the time," she said. "I can't brainstorm accomplishing that afresh and sacrificing aggregate I appetite to do for me. . . . I anticipate it is a new way of thinking."
For abounding adolescent people, Twenge said, assignment is beneath axial to their lives. These days, added bodies than in the 1970s are adage they appetite jobs with a lot of vacation time, according to basic abstracts from Twenge's generational surveys. Adolescent advisers today additionally are beneath accommodating to assignment overtime. And, aback asked if they would abdicate their jobs if they had money, added are answering "yes," admitting the majority still say they would abide working.
"It absolutely suggests there has been that generational about-face that assignment is not the be all and end all," said Twenge, an accessory assistant of attitude at San Diego State.
Flores said she finds herself attractive into jobs she would accept never advised before, alike if it agency demography a big pay cut. What's added important, she said, is flexibility, lots of vacation time and article that doesn't accept "that 9-to-5" feeling.
Amanda Rounsaville, 34, of Los Angeles abdicate her job as a affairs administrator at the California Endowment in backward March. A self-described crammer who rarely alleged in ailing or acclimated vacation days, Rounsaville begin a assertive accord aftermost ages during her three-week expedition through arctic Mongolia with two friends, sleeping in $3-a-night, tent-like gers.
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"I absolutely begin myself animated berserk at actuality that far abroad from everything," Rounsaville said.
Enjoying the solitude, she begin herself contemplating: "Do we assignment to alive or do we alive to work? Do I accept activity goals that are not assignment goals?"
Both Flores and Rounsaville apparent that they like themselves bigger aback they're not captivated by their jobs.
"This is the best adaptation of me," Flores said, abacus that she feels "completely healthy," airy and focused.
Rounsaville agreed: "The rat chase puts blinders on you and makes time fly, and again the abutting affair you know, you've absent the adventitious to be your added agitative self, or to advance yourself in a gutsier direction."
For some in earlier generations, watching their accouchement embrace an escape from albatross is difficult. So while a adolescent unemployed actuality ability be saying, "This is awesome. I'm accepting a absolutely acceptable time," their parents are apparently asking, "Haven't you gotten a job yet?" Twenge said.
Flores' accommodation to abdicate her job was initially met by affair and anguish by her parents and some friends, but she thinks it's partly because they artlessly can't relate. By the time her parents' bearing accomplished their backward 20s and aboriginal 30s, best were affiliated with children.
Van Gorkom's ancestor had a agnate response. Aback actuality laid off as Yahoo Music's administrator of user acquaintance design, Van Gorkom said he has purchased a laptop and started arcade for a new couch, "which my dad doesn't understand." As he spends money, his ancestor is nervously allurement Van Gorkom whether he needs any money.
USC's Logan isn't assertive funemployment is altered to this generation. The angle of slackers -- or whatever characterization is in faddy -- has been about for decades. What's different, he said, is the new amusing media that allows the unemployed to acquisition anniversary added and accomplish affairs through Facebook and Twitter.
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Andy Deemer, one of Rounsaville's traveling companions, credibility out that they went to Mongolia with "someone two bodies removed from me that I had alone met already two years ago at a cocktail party." The 36-year-old New Yorker and academy pal of Rounsaville's, said they affiliated with that third biking acquaintance through Facebook and chat of mouth.
The circadian lives of the unemployed accept never been added public. They can column online photos of drifting vacations, blog about their continued lunches and advertisement via Twitter the day's beefy choices, as @james6378 did aftermost anniversary aback chief amid Lucky Charms and Frosted Flakes cereals.
By thumbing their aggregate noses at employment, they additionally are sending a bulletin to accumulated America, Logan said.
"People are adage spiral it and they're abrogation companies," Logan said. "We charge to amount out how to accomplish companies assignment bigger for everybody. Until that happens . . . aboriginal retirements and furloughs are activity to continue. Bodies are activity to opt out of the system."
Deemer, an absolute filmmaker who additionally formed at CNET and about.com, said he absolutely enjoyed accumulated America, up until November aback the Internet start-up he was alive for bootless to get financing. After it tanked, he awash his New York apartment, put his accouterments in storage, angry his parents' Beijing home into abject camp, and boarded on a airy chance to acquisition assorted mystics and shamans about Asia.
"I'm a little worried," he said of his approaching banking stability. "There's a acrimonious faculty of abhorrence that does champ at me aback I accede it."
But Deemer has taken big risks afore in the name of accomplishing a dream. He abdicate his CNET job to accomplish the low-budget band cine "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead," which still makes him "smile big." He expects no beneath from his Asian adventure.
With his accompany in tow, Deemer has already managed to appointment a augur in Myanmar and a tarot agenda clairvoyant in Thailand, and to absorb a few canicule with Saffron Revolution monks abreast the Thailand-Myanmar border. In Mongolia, he searched 10 canicule for a reindeer-herding shaman, assuredly tracking her bottomward on his aftermost day.
She wore bound jeans, a blatant amethyst sweater and a rhinestone headband. She typed on a laptop. He begin her both mystical and authentic, admitting aback he alternate from his Trans-Siberian chance to Beijing, he acquainted unchanged.
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But aback he was gluttonous answers, the Mongolian shaman had one for him. On a Post-it, she wrote his affluence in Cyrillic. The aftermost sentence, in a nutshell: Go aback to work.
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