After several delays, both down to Long Beach and back to SFO, I have discovered the best way to stimulate economy – through airport flight delays. Wait, hear me out. You arrive for your flight a good 50 minutes to an hour before scheduled departure. Since it’s not international, you wave the whole extra long security line, duty free stores and other time-sucking airport protocols to make it safely to your gate with 30 minutes to spare. Upon arrival to your gate you find you are delayed. Airport FAIL! With no e-mail, no text message or other delayed notice, you are stuck at the airport.
Two hours, one magazine, one bottled water and one snack packet later; I was out $10 dollars and still had two hours to go before boarding. This could be the key to our economy: get people confided to places and forced them to spend money on items like a $2.50 bottle of water because there are no other options.
Being unemployed and on vacation was a lot easier than I imagined. For one, just being out of my home and away from my computer was probably the healthiest thing I had done since I stopped running two weeks ago. I won’t be discussing my Oregon style trail on the money wagon but I enjoyed having conversations with people that didn’t involve job, work or career and I even learned some new dried bean recipes that I can’t wait to replicate.
I’m looking forward to this week and beginning some new projects. I started my unemployment looking for a new company to jump head first in to, but things change. Now, I’m looking at projects I’m interested in exploring and skills I’m looking to build. There is no right or wrong at this stage. I hate when people say it’s survival of the fittest. I read Darwin, it’s survival of those who can adapt.
