People, it has only been 8 months. No need to panic about my mentality!
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Yes, that was annoying. And yes, that is today’s date. And yes, this a scheduled post that I have written a few hours earlier. I had to celebrate the end of 8 months! Today is officially the end of an 8 month period being unemployed. *Standing ovation to the masses* I know, I said I won’t talk about work, but I am not. This post is purely a reminder of accepting the fact that it is ok to do nothing productive in society. I can be productive in other ways, which I am working on right now.
So many people will ask me now, do you regret quitting work in August? I should have quit a year or two ago people. I cracked several times in the past couple of years. For those of you who have been loyal readers for at least over a year or year and a half will realize that I had every single reason to quit. I was just waiting to crack, and I did in August of 2008. So no, I don’t regret it and never will.
Then, I decided to have some fun and enjoy a 4 month vacation. I needed it. I needed to do nothing and not worry about anything in the world. However, for personal reasons, I decided that vacation is over, and I started looking for work in January. Bad move! Around February I lost some patience. In March, I lost a bit more. Most of April, I kept going down hill. And finally, the last week of April, I cracked. Look back a few days ago and notice how I cracked. It ain’t pretty, but sometimes we need to let all the negative out, so we can make room for a fresh new start.
A lot of you told me that I should have done something, started a business, volunteered, blah blah. Do you guys know my mental state right now? Do you think I have the patience to talk to other people now or see anyone? I went down hill people. Remember what I said earlier? I need to climb back up and try to accept my current situation and return to my normal state of being. It takes time my internet global friends.
So no regrets. Just a reminded to my self that it is ok. I am ok. I am beyond ok. I actually feel great, and feel like May is going to be quiet and not too stressful. Hopefully, I won’t crack anytime soon. I am like a pendulum. You can call me Mona the Pendulum. My thought process is always shifting from left to right, and I can’t make it stop!
You guys want to hear a funnier story? Forget that I have money in stocks, bonds, savings, or whatever. Exclude those. From around September 2008 till today, I have the same amount of money in my bank account. And yes I pay credit card, cell phone bill, and my OSAP (student loans), and go shopping every now and then.
How do you think I am doing it? Now that’s the million dollar question! And no, I am not collecting unemployment insurance. I quit work, so I am not entitled to it. If you guessed that my blog, online store, and other contracts have anything to do with it, then you nailed it on the dot!
I think if I ever get married, my husband will love me to death because of my online endeavors! 
See, my blog and other crazy stuff I do online, but mostly my blog, are awesome!
Maybe when I hit the 12 month mark, I will throw a blog party. *sigh* 
FACT: Blogs rule the world and help people survive in bad times!
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You know what they say (I’m not even sure who all of them are) about 10-12 times a year (NY day and 1st April are generally avoided in this respect) treated differently for differing reasons:
PINCH AND A PUNCH FOR THE FIRST OF THE MONTH!!!
Tag, you’re it! nah nah ne nar nar!!
What’s today’s date?? (just kidding
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Congrats on dong so well financially without a job!!
Woo, go you! Leaving a job you hate without another one lined up takes a lot of balls. Well done on staying level with your online awesomeness
This is the best post so far. For some reason, it gives me hope in my own life!
MONA!.. you know.. I was thinking.. you could be generous with your knowledge and setup a tutorial on how to make money through a blog. You seem to have it down.
I think some of you missed the date. It’s MAY 1st!!
You have been drinking an energy drink haven’t you.
@Sapphire
Nop. I quit drinking all that RedBull crap months ago. I am just always high on coffee. That’s all.
hah…
im guessing your stock options are solid. bonds go a long way, and are like a friendship, that pays off after long long talks.
or maybe you’ve sold shoes that you’ve made custom but haven’t told anyone about it cus you were waiting for the guy to come around and see you for who you are and for not the bills in your hand.
HIIII
It has been a while..since visiting your blog
I love ur new loookkk
..WANT TO WISH YOU THE
BESTTTT OF LUCKKKKKKK\
The blog sounds like a success story to me. I have been looking for work since last November so I can relate.
I hope you get a job soon. It’s so discouraging. Worst thing is when stupid recruiters ask you why you didn’t work for so long. Why such a gap? Because nobody hired me. So now they are not going to hire me b/c there’s a gap! This is going to make the gap bigger and bigger. It’s really stupid frustrating trying to find a job.
Sometimes, I wish I was born back when people were just told what to do and that was the end of it.
@Leeroy Glinchy
A recruiter from a larger city near by called me for a PHP job ASAP! I told him I can’t just pick my self up now and move. He said, why can’t you find a job till now? If you lived here, you would get a job in an instance. I laughed inside my head, and thought that this is my luck. I live in the wrong place.