Citations:funemployment

Noun: "a period of unemployment spent pursuing recreational activities or hobbies"

 * 2009 — Kimi Yoshino, "'Funemployed' revel in freedom from work," San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2009:
 * Logan, the USC professor, isn't convinced "funemployment" is unique to this generation.
 * 2009 — Chuck Raasch, "North of the border, a funemployed summer", USA Today, 7 July 2009:
 * "Funemployment," they call it, according to a spate of recent stories in The (Toronto) Globe and Mail, one of the country's top newspapers.
 * 2010 — Aaron Goldfarb, How to Fail: The Self-Hurt Guide, Chateau Publishing House (2010), ISBN 9780982941102, page 261:
 * "If you lived in Brooklyn or Astoria or even the far east Upper East Side, there'd be tons of other people on 'funemployment'."
 * 2011 — Derek Blasberg, Very Classy, Razorbill (2011), ISBN 9781101563069, page 540:
 * At the end of the day, not having a job is an inconvenience, but it's not the end of the world. Use "funemployment" (what many of my friends call being without a job) to blow off some steam.
 * 2011 — Don Peck, Pinched: How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures & What We Can Do About It, Crown Publishers (2011), ISBN 9780307886521, page 72:
 * Aubrey Howell, who'd tweeted about funemployment shortly after being laid off as the manager of a Nashville tea shop in 2009, and was featured in a Los Angeles Times story soon afterward, told me half a year later that she initially saw the layoff as an opportunity to clear her head, refocus, and "go after what I'm really passionate about" — music and graphic design.
 * 2011 — Leslie Simon, Geek Girls Unite: How Fangirls, Bookworms, Indie Chicks, and Other Misfits are Taking Over the World, HarperCollins Publishers Inc. (2011), ISBN 9780062099020, page 50:
 * After Jen is fired from her high-powered and high-paying job, she realizes that her high-maintenance ways — Spa pedicures! Expensive dinners! Overpriced highlights! — aren't going to get her very far and being jobless isn't all funemployment and games.