Day 20
I’m on about my 20th day of not working, and I can’t complain too much. I’ve been getting to sleep in all day and stay up all night, relax and do very little. I’m not even concerned about my money, because I have two options: get a job or collect unemployment. Choosing the traditional American path, I filed for unemployment and am slated to receive $201.00 a week. But, I won’t start collected for several more weeks, and I should be able to make more money. That figure is based off of my substitute teaching job, which I officially lost on June 1. Wendy’s, where I worked at up until about six months ago, is trying to withhold paying me unemployment. For the longest time, the rumor was that substitute teachers weren’t able to collect unemployment, but I think I broke that tradition by actually making enough money doing it and officially being terminated just in time for the summer anyway. It’s like it worked out too well in my favor. I’m getting paid from a job that pays its normal employees nothing during the summer. $201.00 a week isn’t great, but for not working, it sure seems nice. I’m just worried that technicalities or my own errors might compromise that.
I was supposed to be hired in at Wendy’s-Taylor effective at my orientation on June 21, but if I choose to work there, I won’t get my full unemployment benefits. I’d have to work at Wendy’s 27 hours a week to make the same as unemployment. If I work minimally at Wendy’s, I can still collect unemployment, but I’m starting to think I shouldn’t even bother. If Wendy’s didn’t take so long to hire me, I might not be in this situation, but I’m going to just tell them something else came up. I don’t want to drive 30 minutes to make $7.40 per hour, when it looks like I can make just as much sitting on my ass for awhile. Saving the gas money alone seems worth it. It would be different if the job paid more and had a more reliable schedule. I know Wendy’s well, and working until 3:00 am on any given day for the pay they give is just criminal. If I can find a good job through the unemployment job bank, then I’ll do that.
Of course, I’m not going to live off unemployment forever, because I can’t. I intent to find a job at some point, but the Wendy’s-Taylor job isn’t exactly what I’m looking for. When the next school year starts, I don’t even know if I want to substitute teach anymore, which I’ll have to do somewhere else. But, I might get in somewhere else and work minimally while getting a job somewhere else. I would like to get a more stable job, and the outlook on that might be to take the course to be a certified nursing assistant. I just need at least $700 to take the course and the test. There are also a lot of other things I need to take care of; working, even minimally, at Wendy’s, isn’t going to cut it. I just need to get some bills off my back, which wouldn’t be hard with a little consistent income.
I was supposed to be hired in at Wendy’s-Taylor effective at my orientation on June 21, but if I choose to work there, I won’t get my full unemployment benefits. I’d have to work at Wendy’s 27 hours a week to make the same as unemployment. If I work minimally at Wendy’s, I can still collect unemployment, but I’m starting to think I shouldn’t even bother. If Wendy’s didn’t take so long to hire me, I might not be in this situation, but I’m going to just tell them something else came up. I don’t want to drive 30 minutes to make $7.40 per hour, when it looks like I can make just as much sitting on my ass for awhile. Saving the gas money alone seems worth it. It would be different if the job paid more and had a more reliable schedule. I know Wendy’s well, and working until 3:00 am on any given day for the pay they give is just criminal. If I can find a good job through the unemployment job bank, then I’ll do that.
Of course, I’m not going to live off unemployment forever, because I can’t. I intent to find a job at some point, but the Wendy’s-Taylor job isn’t exactly what I’m looking for. When the next school year starts, I don’t even know if I want to substitute teach anymore, which I’ll have to do somewhere else. But, I might get in somewhere else and work minimally while getting a job somewhere else. I would like to get a more stable job, and the outlook on that might be to take the course to be a certified nursing assistant. I just need at least $700 to take the course and the test. There are also a lot of other things I need to take care of; working, even minimally, at Wendy’s, isn’t going to cut it. I just need to get some bills off my back, which wouldn’t be hard with a little consistent income.