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

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. As we were wrapping up, Alex asked about my runway. “How much longer do you have on unemployment?” he aske...