It was New Year’s Eve, there was sleet and I was freezing on my moped heading for Nea Philadelphia to speak with a prospective employer..
As we drank coffee at Mikel and talked about work I got dumped by my girlfriend because she would get cold on the moped when I took her home.
I got her a present for New Year’s which will probably end up in the garbage bin
Manos, 30, Attica
The ‘Diaries of the unemployed’ (ImerologioAnergou.gr
in greek) started out as 17 brief texts scattered in Christoforos Kasdaglis 's book 'Anonymous Bankrupts' (Kastaniotis editions, 2012).
The unemployed from across Greece, eponymous and anonymous, will be continuing the narrative by writing here.
It is a volunteer initiative with the aim of breaking the taboo of shame and giving the unemployed a stage, so that they express themselves, recording their experiences in texts of up to 350 words.
An internet venture that aspires to muster varied communication channels in order to maximize the result – that the unemployed find a voice which the dominant mainstream media and the political system have taken away from them.