The 8-Hour Unemployment Day

I was watching the Today this morning and they featured what feels like one of their umpteenth segments on dealing with unemployment. (Turn on any TV news show or open any magazine/newspaper and the theme is often about being laidoff and/or spending less.) Anyway, the Today segment got me thinking about this topic and something the expert, who wrote a book on job hunting, said -- namely that anyone who's unemployed should still be structuring their day as if they had a job to go to.

What does this mean? Basically it means that if you're looking for a job, you should focus on a 9-to-5 schedule...even though you don't technically have anywhere you need to be. To that end, if you're looking for a media job, check the corporate job boards and media job sites, and then work on networking.

As the TV expert noted, you might have the urge to check job sites for an hour in your PJ's and then watch Law & Order all day, but you shouldn't. You should be looking for a job, or trying to network or doing research, for roughly, 8 hours, which is a standard work day. (Breaks for lunch, or to hit the gym, are allowed though.)