Candy Floss Dreamz

Unemployment

Im losing it again. Ive been feeling down lately and have been indulging in all kinds of fattening food. It doesnt help that New year is on its way and there are lots of cookies and love letters, all my favourite treats, at home. I feel bored and pissed off being at home when i should have been working. The food looks too comforting, and when jianglei isnt around, they are the only ones i can turn to. So great, im jobless and im turning fat. What could be worse?

Surely an econs student like me should have expected it. What happens to society and economy as a whole when people gets unemployed. Perhaps i should add one more point to the social problems that unemployment can cause. When people are unemployed, esp girls like me, they get depressed and start eating. Then they begin getting fat and unhealthy, and no one would want to employ any worker who is damn unfit. so we continue being unemployed and our health starts deteriorating. After a significant period, people start collecting unemployment benefits and claiming medical benefits as well. We are unable to contribute to the economy, so the economy cannot reach its full potential growth. Instead, we become a burden to society and economy. Oh ya, for people like us who find comfort in food whenever we are upset, we become obese. This isnt good for the country, is it? When the percentage of obese people gets too high.

Now im able to understand how unemployment is always one of the main causes for social unrest. When people are unemployed, they are under stress and suffer hardship. People like me who depend on food to make us happier, get even more unhappy when we beccome too poor to afford the very thing that keeps us going. A hungry man is an angry man. So they get upset with the government for not doing enough to reduce their sufferings, and that's when you see riots.

Unemployment is certainly undesirable. If someone like me who is only looking for a temp job that can support me myelf and i for 6 mths gets so depressed only after 2 weeks of unsucessful applications, it's easy to imagine how people who have to find a permanent job to support the family feel.

posted by dreamz @ 9:37 AM