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How To Make A Living Getting Fired or Being Unemployed!

Posted At : February 6, 2007 9:53 PM | Posted By : Brian Weis
Related Categories: Job Humor

What a great country! There is money to be made in being unemployed. No, I am not talking about the unemployment checks, I'm referring to documenting your experiences and profiting. Being unemployed can be a big business!

Here are two examples of people making a living at not making a living.

OddTodd.com

This guy cracks me up. He lost his job in a downsizing and documented his life from that point forward. He has built a successful website and has written a few books. This guy built a franchise reporting on what he did as a laid off employee.

Watch his first two cartoons/Flash animations before diving into his site. (There is some adult humor) This will put the rest of his site into perspective.

http://www.oddtodd.com/index2.html

http://www.oddtodd.com/hw.html

While he appears to be a big slacker, he is a very talented guy. If you need a great laugh ” everyone needs one dealing with the stress of finding a new job ” his site will make you smile.

Visit www.oddtodd.com

Fired! (The Movie)

Annabelle Gurwitch, an actress, was fired from a play produced by Woody Allen. To cope, she turned to friends in show business and soon found out she was not alone. Once the subject had been broached, everyone she knew from her rabbi and gynecologists to her colleagues had advice and their own accounts of getting the boot. This set her off on a journey to answer the question: was being fired going to be the best or worst thing that had happened in her working life?

Her experience led to a book that hit the New York Post's Hot List and was featured in Oprah's Anticipation list. She continued her research from famous actors to GM auto workers and turned her findings into a movie.

Fired! reminds us that great successes can be born from failure and being fired can be a part of the growth process, that humor helps, and that if you're employed in America today your firing may be both the best and the worst thing that can happen in your working life.

The movie opened Feb 2, 2007 in New York. http://www.firedthemovie.com/see.html

Visit www.firedthemovie.com/