What is gainful unemployment?

gainful: profitable, lucrative unemployment: the state of being unemployed, esp. involuntarily or the numbers of people without work According to Dictionary.com, gainful is a word that should be primarly defined in capitalist economic terms. Continuing the trend of defining words with a subjective capitalist lens, the definition of unemployment includes a reference to the involuntary nature of being jobless. But what if the two were put together? What if the unemployment was voluntary? What if the unemployment was not a period of worklessness or worthlessness, but a gainful period? What if the focus of all work, productivity, profit, and gain had nothing to do with an economy of money, and everything to do with a personal economy of soul and internal growth? This is the journey I started on January 19th, 2007. I'm not sure when it will end, but I will write about my experience here until it's over. This explains the "what." This blog will explain the "why" from the beginning, and will show what new "whys" develop as time goes on. Thanks for reading.

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Day 39

I was just taping in all the little scraps of paper that I collect and keep for my journal, and taped in a fortune from some Chinese food I recently ate:

You emerge victorious from the maze you've been travelling in.

Finally, some good news!

Of course, it was situated right next to:

There is a prospect of a thrilling time ahead for you.

I am thinking that it would be best to take a glass-half-full perspective on that one.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your journal sounds pretty sweet, my friend. Mine is 100% digital now, which I really quite like, but some days I do miss having something to thumb through.

And I would say that is an exciting pair of fortunes to have! *fills that glass up till it OVERFLOWS, bb!*

;)

March 17, 2007 at 6:21 PM
amy jean said...

When my life totally dove off the deep end, I got a fortune that said "You are headed in the right direction" which made me feel much better, and was true!

March 20, 2007 at 2:47 PM

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