funemployment

Perhaps Janis Joplin said it best: Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. While there have always been people who, when handed a pile of lemons find a way to make lemonade, this recession is proving that we may indeed be a nation of lemonade-makers. The unspoken motto: Make...

The financial collapse has brought about many changes to our lifestyles -- from how we work (or don't) to how we spend our money and even to how we talk. These changes have prompted the creation of new terms, and the revival of old ones, to describe activities and actions that have gained new...

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...