Yuratuhl wrote:
Usdk wrote:
Tell me how being unemployed is in any way better than being employed.
Free time.
If I really wanted or needed to, sure, I could probably get a job at McDonalds.
But, contrary to what many people believe, no one is more painfully aware of my capacity to arouse others' ire than me. Whether it's because I'm ridiculously superior and make everyone jealous, or because I'm a pedantic, inflexible douchebag, the net result is the same: the risks outweigh the potential benefits.
And what would it accomplish? I wouldn't achieve financial independence. I wouldn't stop being a burden on my parents, such as it is. If I made the choice to do so, all it would mean would be a much more uncomfortable and unstable life, and my parents would flatly waste the relatively small amount of money it costs to maintain me anyway. Proceeding along the lines Azelma did, it would almost certainly mean a debt load - which would be a very bad thing for life progression.
No peer or employer or school would think better of me for working at McDonalds or some other menial job. Two, five, ten, twenty years down the line, it wouldn't get me anything.
In the final analysis, having a menial jerb would accomplish nothing but being able to make the point in forum discussions.
Or is my logic incorrect? Tell me.
