It's all where you live and what you make of your time. If you live in CVG, where life is boring, yes sitting around would s#*k.
If you live in a freezing cold place...that would stink too.
I live in a warm place and have fun sitting at the pool and texting my sister in IL and asking how she is enjoying the snow and -0 temps. (She hates me
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I also set my goal of catching one of every fish in the Gulf of Mexico, which is keeping me busy.
I have a friend that was furloughed from Xpressjet in October, he is still on unemployment and enjoying picking up some side jobs.
I just got my first unemployment payment. Yes, that stinks!
I do miss the flying (a lot), but there is finally a little less stress of the last few months of "You're displaced, now you're not, you're furloughed, now you're not, oh wait, now you are". This company puts everyone's lives and familie's lives in limbo and it does not seem to bother them.