For those who have been out of work for a longer stretch, do you start to have trouble differentiating between weekends/weekdays? Not that every day feels like a weekend. On the contrary, EVERY day feels like the grind to find something new and I have trouble carving the time to relax.

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ALLLLL the time OP. I literally forget what day it is because I feel like I wake up and do the same thing every day. Just keep applying for jobs and hoping to land something. I have been looking for 6 months and it seems impossible to find anything in this current job market which really sucks.

No, I really don't have that problem. It's funny how I'll be aware of what day it is because I know what night I have to take out the recycling, what night I take the garbage can to the curb, and so on. Even if I'm not working every day, I still have a pretty rigid schedule, even if it's just keyed to ordinary household chores. I think I'm just wired that way.

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