How To Be Happily Unemployed

by John Shore on February 4, 2008 in Humor · 44 comments

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Karen August 3, 2010 at 2:59 pm

And yet even another post…better yet, you could create one of those "study cards" like they have in CVS.

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Karen August 3, 2010 at 1:30 pm

Just a follow up to my post..I felt a burden lift from me after reading your article..write a book, maybe a paperbook..it would really sell right now and give people a refreshing look at their situation and there is nothing better for the soul than a little humor in hard times. Thanks again!

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Karen August 3, 2010 at 1:24 pm

You should write a book! LMAO

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Jackie October 24, 2009 at 3:05 am

Ok, its me again. I do need to let you know, I am a better speller. I didn't edit, I'll do better. I was uh…thinkin', and drinkin' (coffee) and trying to watch cable… I just read all the reader comments BEFORE I even read your comments. I was inspired by that!

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Jackie October 24, 2009 at 3:00 am

Wow, you saved me(by by God's grace) I was about to lose it but I'm ok now. Gotta go watch so cable… be back later….

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John Shore May 19, 2009 at 10:09 am

But how do you pay your bills, Doc?

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Doc D May 19, 2009 at 10:08 am

Too true!!! Time to get perspective and realise the corporate rat-race is actually a man-made construct that means nothing!! I love my morning coffee at 9am in the back yard thinking about all those poor shmucks who are either starting work or have been at it foe an hour already!!!

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Kansas Bob December 5, 2008 at 11:26 pm

"like a cow worrying over a McDonald’s opening in their neighborhood"

..too funny John!

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Des December 5, 2008 at 8:31 am

In the first dot com bust around 2000, many in the internet industry lost their jobs. Places like pets.com were the poster children of the excesses of the late 90's in internetdom. So what did all these laid off people do? They came up with stuff like Wordpress and Twitter! The moral of this story is that bored geeks place in the hands of the squares, things that will waste their time until another dot com bust happens.

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John Shore February 5, 2008 at 1:03 pm

Brian, you really DO need to stop referring to fundamentalist Christians as “Christians.” While all fundamentalists are Christian, only a small minority of Christians are fundamentalists. Fair is fair, Bait Boy.

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Brian Shields February 5, 2008 at 12:44 pm

Sorry John, yes, I guess I was being persnickety (glad your comments have spell check) about the term “dropped” as opposed to shot. In a good natured way enjoying the fun before all of those eternities frying in the depths of hell while you laugh at me from heaven. (Reminds me of that Talking Heads song about heaven being “a place where nothing ever happens. It’s hard to imagine that nothing at all could be so exciting, could be so much fun”)

I once went to a college where they forced everyone to read Ptolemy (his cosmology explains everything you could see with the naked eye from Greece at his time) so I do sometimes wonder why Christians aren’t as fundamentalist about their astronomy as they are about their biological sciences (with that whole evolution thing).

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melcartera February 5, 2008 at 9:23 am

Hey, John.

Wow! This is great!

You know, I think you're even funnier than Dave Barry. Honest! That's just one guy's opinion, of course, but maybe you should tell your manager/promoter to get off his a– and get you syndicated!

A Christian humorist, syndicated, would be great. Go let your light shine!

May God bless you richly, John, and use you mightily for His kingdom and for His glory!

Mel

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