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18 months on unemployment

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2002.11.21

18 months. It's been 18 months since I had a steady job. It's not really all that bad, except for the reduced social circumstances and the diminished ability to buy camera equipment.

All kidding aside, I've logged quite a few job applications, phone calls, and rejection emails in the last 10 weeks. My Toronto job search spreadsheet has 40 entries just for the city....

rand()m quote

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

—Abraham Lincoln