Out of work? Don’t think twice about collecting unemployment benefits

Collecting those funds isn’t charity; it’s earned. At my latest networking “meeting” with my bro Alex—also known as a free lunch with a marketing executive who still has a job and a corporate card—we talked about freelance opportunities that might be coming up. We talked about who was hiring, who claimed they were hiring, and which companies were pretending that “lean teams” were somehow a point of pride instead of a warning sign.