5 Struggles Of Being Home For The Summer And Unemployed | The Odyssey Online
Start writing a post
Politics and Activism

5 Struggles Of Being Home For The Summer And Unemployed

Struggle is so real

43
5 Struggles Of Being Home For The Summer And Unemployed
http://www.directemployers.org

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…”

Report this Content
This article has not been reviewed by Odyssey HQ and solely reflects the ideas and opinions of the creator.
Relationships

8 Cringey College Tinder Stories

. Cringey Tinder stories from some Tinder girls

1020
a man and a woman sitting at a table
Photo by Good Faces on Unsplash

Toilet Troubles

"So, usually I would never go on a Tinder date but when you are out with girlfriends and a hot Bosnian guy says he wants to hang with you and his friends, you oblige. We head to their apartment and when I realized I may pee my pants if I don't find a bathroom soon. I ask for the bathroom and a friend of my tinder date shows me to it and said in all seriousness that I was not allowed to flush the toilet under ANY circumstances. Having a few drinks--or five--I relieved myself to, nevertheless, flush the toilet. Within seconds, his bathroom was flooded and towels were laid out everywhere to catch the toilet water. To say the least, we were not invited back"

Keep Reading...Show less
Girl with a Guy Bestfriend
vignette3

I can confidently say that about 90 percent of all the friends I have are male. It's just always been that way since I was a kid. Over the years, I've heard a lot of things and I've learned a lot of things, and here it all is. Enjoy!

If you're a girl with a guy best friend you know that...

Keep Reading...Show less
Greek Life
Clare Concannon

With being a member of Greek life, you are going to come across people who HATE Greek life and who always want to say something negative towards it. If you're not a part of Greek life, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But maybe try and keep some of the not-so-nice comments to yourself.

Keep Reading...Show less
retail
Chor Ip / Flickr

I'm sure, like me, many of you received lots of gift cards over the holidays. After working retail seasonally, here are a few tips that I learned in order to make the employees at your favorite store just a little happier and not want to charge you extra on your purchase for being awful. Here are some times when you should be nicer to retail workers than you actually are!

Keep Reading...Show less
5 Untold Struggles Of The Short Friend

I'm the Short Friend. I've been the Short Friend since about the seventh grade. I'm the one who stands in the front of the photos, gets made fun of for their height, and still shops in the kids department.

This article is not for the Almost Short Friends, i.e. the 5'3" and 5'4" Friends. No no, this is for the Actually Short Friends, i.e. the Barely Scraping 5'1" and shorter Short Friends.

Keep Reading...Show less

Subscribe to Our Newsletter

Facebook Comments