Speaking as one with experience, I am, for the next month or so… one of the ‘unemployed’. When you sign up for benefits, you are required to attend classes on how to put together a resume’ and look for work. So I am ‘looking for work’. When my benefits run out next month, I will drop off the ‘unemployed’ rolls and become “out of work”. But… I am still looking for work!
Fat chance of that happening for an over-qualified 63-year old in a ‘downsizing’ industry.
But hey… I did my best to keep the ‘unemployment rolls’ up for as long as I could… AND I got paid a modest amount for it!
Now I have applied for early Social Security.