Take a Break
So it's Easter, and whether we like it or not, the calendar is dictating to us that we take a break. A four day weekend stretching out for us to enjoy our leisure. Not good if you're already enjoying enforced leisure in the form of unemployment. Then it's just two extra days when the phone is unlikely to ring. In the first period of unemployment after leaving college about eight months into my career I had a telephone installed in the bedsit that I still occupied from my student days. Cream, with a shiny dial (Yes, I am that old!), it stood by the bed , and became a huge focus for me during my first period of unemployment. Every day I would will it to ring. And of course on Sundays and holidays, there was little chance that even if it did, it would lead to work. These days our careers are such more twenty four hour affairs. Even today, Easter Sunday, I've had a phone call from a TV director regarding a current project. E mail, phone calls and texts can get to us at