Look around your current company and see if there’s another job in there you’d like better (or which would suck less). Switching jobs inside a company is often easier than switching companies.
Ask someone to find a job for you. Family and close friends will often do this for free. Others might if they like you and they trust you’ll remember you owe them a favor. Your girlfriend might, because it means you get more time together.
Learn how to slack and not get caught. If you’re in an office, there are HowTos. If not, you can still determine which parts of your job are safest to slack off at.
If you haven’t, become friends with someone who has the kind of job you want. If you have, deepen that relationship and ask to be introduced to similar friends. As long as you never directly beg for a job, it is perfectly alright to say you’re looking for a job in that area.
All of this is assuming that one year of unemployment was entirely due to factors outside your control. This is very unlikely. You could almost certainly raise your employability in lots of ways that you haven’t used. Move to a place with a better job market for example, dress better (to use the Halo effect), or whatever it is—basically remove some of the differences between you and the kind of person who gets the job you want.
For more advice, be a lot more specific about your situation. What kind of job do you want, why don’t you have it, how much are you willing to sacrifice to get it?
Thanks for the advice. I love how Less Wrong is a place where you can say you want to slack at work and someone points you to a good resource for doing so :-)
Changing job within the company isn’t an option, due to it being a small cultural non-profit that mostly works with freelance artists.
If you haven’t, become friends with someone who has the kind of job you want. If you have, deepen that relationship and ask to be introduced to similar friends. As long as you never directly beg for a job, it is perfectly alright to say you’re looking for a job in that area.
Look around your current company and see if there’s another job in there you’d like better (or which would suck less). Switching jobs inside a company is often easier than switching companies.
Ask someone to find a job for you. Family and close friends will often do this for free. Others might if they like you and they trust you’ll remember you owe them a favor. Your girlfriend might, because it means you get more time together.
Learn how to slack and not get caught. If you’re in an office, there are HowTos. If not, you can still determine which parts of your job are safest to slack off at.
If you haven’t, become friends with someone who has the kind of job you want. If you have, deepen that relationship and ask to be introduced to similar friends. As long as you never directly beg for a job, it is perfectly alright to say you’re looking for a job in that area.
All of this is assuming that one year of unemployment was entirely due to factors outside your control. This is very unlikely. You could almost certainly raise your employability in lots of ways that you haven’t used. Move to a place with a better job market for example, dress better (to use the Halo effect), or whatever it is—basically remove some of the differences between you and the kind of person who gets the job you want.
For more advice, be a lot more specific about your situation. What kind of job do you want, why don’t you have it, how much are you willing to sacrifice to get it?
Thanks for the advice. I love how Less Wrong is a place where you can say you want to slack at work and someone points you to a good resource for doing so :-)
Changing job within the company isn’t an option, due to it being a small cultural non-profit that mostly works with freelance artists.
Will do. This should be possible.