funemployed no more

Whenever people ask me what I do or where I work, I usually say I'm currently unemployed, albeit being slightly embarrassed or that I'm a full time student finishing my thesis (which is a lie because I haven't even started. I still need to find a topic. Dang!) whenever I'm talking to people in the academe.

So the usual scene happened today while I was doing some layout at a friend's workplace (yes, apparently I do layouts now and I'm now called an "artist" despite the fact that my brain's protesting that it's more logical than creative) and her colleague asked me the dreaded question. So I answered him that I'm not working and followed it with an awkward laugh. So the colleague thought I was joking and pressed on. Good thing my friend was beside me and answered that I'm a freelance consultant (which is actually true because I'm now legally eligible to say so and the fact that I'm still involved in a project which was supposed to be finished last May. Not my fault though).

Freelance consultant, it has a nice ring to it. Vague but not embarrassing to say to other people. I'll use that term from now on until I get a decent job in the future. Haha. :P