How I Made Money From April 30th, 2010 to June 30th, 2010

I have been unemployed since January. This is the only period in my life that I haven’t been employed since I moved out of my mother’s home. I left my last job, a work-study position at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Research Library, in January to move to Chicago, Illinois, from Columbus, Ohio. I moved for an unpaid internship that was the last requirement of my undergraduate degrees.

While in Chicago I lived off of excess scholarship money from The Ohio State University - that is, until that money unexpectedly ran out during my last month there. I was lucky enough that my partner at the time, the comics-maker Sara Drake, generously allowed me to borrow the funds I needed until I made my way home. Since coming back to Columbus in April I have been engaged in an assortment of odd remunerative pursuits, none of which could exactly be called a job.

It wasn't supposed to be this way; I applied to a number of positions for the summer only to be roundly/resoundingly denied. When none of my applications were accepted, I decided to go to Europe for the summer because that makes total sense and I am smart. To be able to go to Europe, I had to have a lot of money. The following is a chronicle of my attempt to have a lot of money while unemployed. Each time I earned, took, found, or was given an amount of money over one dollar I recorded the event and day. Summary statistics are provided at the end.