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Archive Home > 2009 > June > 04 > Reveling in the funemployment

Reveling in the funemployment

Experts say the phenomenon of joyful joblessness is both cultural narcissism and a backlash against corporate America

By Kimi Yoshino / The Bulletin
June 4, 2009

LOS ANGELES —

Michael Van Gorkom was laid off by Yahoo in late April. He didn’t panic. He didn’t rush off to a therapist. Instead, the 33-year-old Santa Monica resident discovered that being jobless “kind of settled nicely.”

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