Your Job Will Come: Funemployment

While it helps to have severance, a working spouse, parents who will give you cash, or money set aside for such emergencies, "funemployment" is a great way to be unemployed if you can afford it.

A recent Los Angeles Times story about the term points out that the happily jobless tend to be single and in their 20s and 30s. Instead of filling out job applications and networking, they're volunteering, returning to school and taking cheap vacations. San Francisco Weekly recently profiled the term.

While it's no surprise that not working can be fun, especially if you have money from some other source, what's happily surprising to me is how the "funemployed" embrace their new lifestyle, at least until the money runs out.

During the almost one year of being unemployed myself, I've taken a weekday here and there to enjoy, but nothing like the stories I've come across or some of the people I know who are out of work.

Here are some examples of how the funemployed are getting by, as discussed in a WalletPop podcast "Your Job Will Come," a weekly discussion looking for work.