You’ve just returned home from a long emotional and physically exhausting year away at school and you're excited to relax, however, we’ve hit this thing called adulthood and our bodies are somewhat incapable of relaxing. While most of us may have had a summer job lined up for months…the rest of us are still working on it and in the meantime, we’re struggling a bit. Without a job….Here are five signs you are struggling with summer unemployment.
1. You're bored out of your mind
To start, without a job one would think all this free time would be a blessing, however at this age, being unemployed just means sitting around waiting for all your friends with jobs to get off work…
2. You're broke
You’re at that age where mom and dad have cut you off and without that weekly allowance and income of a job. You’ve got zero dollars to spend.
3. You become lazy
You turn quite literally into a couch potato. We’ve outgrown the times where summer meant running around in the backyard playing night games with your friends and instead binge on the latest Netflix series.
4. You become Mom and Dad's slave
While everyone’s living situation is different, I however, am living with my parents this summer. Knowing that you have no job to attend to, they find work for you to do around the house.
5. The internet becomes your best friend
With nothing to do you find yourself on a whole other level of surfing the web.
However, when people ask what we’re doing this summer we reply with: “we’re working on it…”