I finished my internship in October and have been on the hunt for a job. Job hunting is pretty depressing. Especially when the only direction your bank account can go with no job is down. I've been playing a lot of video games to "escape reality". It's like all my problems are pushed aside and everything is fine when I play video games, the depression soon wears off. This however causes me to not try as hard as I can to find a job.
When you're unemployed there isn't much to do, you don't have to get up early, you don't have to do anything. You don't even have to take a shower everyday because you're doing nothing to make yourself sweat. You're just watching life play out before you. You're observing the game.
I've been observing the game for 2 months now. There has been good times but there has been a lot of bad times, mainly depression...but now it's time to do something productive. Stop observing and start playing. I talk about life being a game because I love video games and, well, life is a game. Life is the only game in which you decide whether you've won or lost. You can also look at other players (other people in life) and decide whether they're winning, won, lost or losing and whether they care about your opinion is their decision. During these 2 months I haven't done anything productive. I think I am losing...badly. So how do I start winning?
I've decided to set myself tasks or objectives every day. Some challenging, some rewarding and some just a downright chore. Then I've got weekly tasks. Tasks that last the whole week which could relate to the daily tasks. Eventually once I get into the swing of things I could even develop monthly tasks, relating to weekly and daily tasks. I've started to live life like a game.
I could get a job this week or next year, but while hunting for a job I better make use of the free time I've got.
Game on.
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