Anybody have characters (in modern day settings) who are unemployed? (+ examples/samples)

allisoncandraw 2024-03-11 19:53:15 UTC #13

Sure do. David is a therapist and I've had him bring this up on multiple occasions.

Then we have my mechanic OC Randy. The strips she's been in have been centered around her job.

https://m.tapas.io/series/signs-point-to-bobbie/info

DasIstWunderblyat 2024-03-11 21:49:39 UTC #14

Perhaps.
Is being a 'government property' is a form of employment?
Or being a ghost is?

UrMom 2024-03-12 13:39:48 UTC #15

At some point there will be.

Both my MCs have experienced homeless to different extents in timelines before the story starts, Julian being out on the streets until having enough for the down-payment of an apartment (Although they weren't unemployed, they just didn't have the money saved up yet.), and Apollo was a couch surfer for about a year before getting his current job.

In the future both become unemployed, with Julian losing their job due to not showing up at work thanks to Daniel not letting them leave, and Apollo's past negligence catching up to him and getting fired after being hospitalized. Both are kind of tragic since they're struggling mentally at this point, but it's an inevitability. Employers won't realistically invest in workers who keep missing work, or keep getting in trouble, no matter the reason.
For Apollo it's a bit of a wake-up call since he thought he'd always have his job, but it's a good thing in a way. He starts getting new interests through taking care of Julian, and grows as a person. Julian didn't like their job to begin with, wasn't too phased since it made sense to them, plus they already knew what being at rock bottom was like so losing unemployment wasn't very devastating. Lol

Leyelle 2024-04-01 16:15:08 UTC #16

i think people often have very different responses to losing their jobs. for some people it might not even hit them. And some people weren't that attached to their job so they see it as a chance to start over and do something new, that is, if they aren't concerned about how they'll make a living. Maybe even if they ARE concerned, it can be a mixed bag

Leyelle 2024-04-16 13:40:34 UTC #17

Natividad is still unemployed, but she doesn't have any reason for that other than that she's not really trying to or interested in getting a job. So really, despite the fact that Alicia is still afraid of Natividad's scorn, she is most definitely winning.

(Natividad is mentioned in the chapter "Blue Blood' of "Damsel in the Red Dress.")

Ever since my mother was put in rehab, I lived with her older sister, and she relented to me the legal bare minimum while wearing herself thin in an attempt to satisfy the whims of my pretty bratty cousin, Natividad. Everyone basically worshipped her like a teenage Jennifer Lopez, forever as ‘on fleek’ as I was shabby. Every penny my aunt saved on me was thrown into the designer clothes that her ‘angel’ HAD to have, lest she lose her popular girl status, made possible through the facade. I was fortunate enough to be younger, and shorter than her, so I lived on the hand-me-down and discarded fashion, and crumbs of attention, for most of my high school years.

Leyelle 2024-05-13 21:17:25 UTC #18

Ohh, Tia Bella was an at home "mom" when she was raising Andrew.

theyrebothakilogram 2024-05-13 21:24:09 UTC #19

Technically the main antagonist of my story is unemployed (villainy does not get you a W2) his reason being that he is too pretty to work

Leyelle 2024-05-13 21:26:28 UTC #20

XD, too pretty to work. that's the same reason Natividad is unemployed

Leyelle 2024-05-13 21:27:08 UTC #21

wait, doesn't this make him and Randy employed?

Leyelle 2024-06-01 22:21:33 UTC #22

Dominic is not unemployed, but he is also sort of freelance. He works for his father at a store his grandfather owns, and while his dad pays him, he's technically not signed any contracts and this employment is not all "official" so it could technically end whenever.

AmysGames 2024-06-01 23:50:10 UTC #23

I mean, technically yes...

His employment situation will be addressed in future chapters, so for however much that counts?

Leyelle 2024-06-02 00:10:51 UTC #24

is this the MCs dad?

AmysGames 2024-06-02 01:13:34 UTC #25

No, but he's someone else's dad.

Leyelle 2024-06-02 01:18:36 UTC #26

ahhh, getting fired is really rough regardless of whether you have anyone but yourself to care for. I hope he gets another job?

AmysGames 2024-06-02 01:36:41 UTC #27

Again, his employment situation will be addressed in future chapters.

Leyelle 2024-07-01 16:58:05 UTC #28

Cocoa and Beth are both technically unemployed, but that's pretty normal for many students, especially when they're parents are paying for them to go to school, which Beth's father is. (money flex). Cocoa's older brother and sister are paying her way through college.

Leyelle 2024-07-23 14:21:44 UTC #29

Oof. Forgot Dorine.

Dorine Walker, my FL's mother is unemployed since her stroke, and my FL Essence is her caregiver. She's not taking it very well, unfortunately, and Essence is getting the brunt of her anger and frustration.

Leyelle 2024-08-14 14:39:30 UTC #30

Mrs. George is an at home mom, but that doesn't mean she isn't working lol. She cooks and cleans all day long and yet is somehow always cheerful and pretty. I call shenanigans

SumireHime 2024-08-15 05:23:42 UTC #31

Yes, for much of Lyra's Magnum Opus, the two main characters are unemployed and living with the parents of one of them. One was fired for being gay (he's actually bisexual, but like they gave a damn) and so he takes care of his boyfriend who is quickly in the process of becoming disabled. His boyfriend loses his job due to being "unable to perform duties". They are in Japan, and it at least was legal at the time to be fired for these reasons.

Leyelle 2024-09-03 14:44:07 UTC #32

Probably going to see this theme come up several more times in "Crystal Blue" because unemployment is a huge struggle for Phants that leads to their shortened life-span