That's a pretty comprehensive checklist. I've been laid off from my previous three jobs (Huh - looking at the calender, those three jobs lasted a year and a half total. Maybe I'd be better at picking racehorses than employers.), which is kind of like having all that last-minute stress taken away. It adds other stresses, like cleaning out your desk rapidly and uploading your email, but still - they're not going to ask you to overhaul that server or rewrite stuff on the last day. Once I was asked to take out the trash, I think, but that was about it.

Unemployment has several advantages over working, but after three months they've worn a bit thin.

Getting another job is tough when more than half of your friends are also unemployed. It adds for surreal conversations, because suddenly you walk around and you are no longer defined by what you do for a living...

...you're defined by what you do when you're not laying around the house hitting reload on Craigslist.

(insert random plea for job here)