5) “The Way I Are” — Timberland Feat. Keri Hilson
Basically the song to dance to when you’ve just found out about your termination, your hopes are soaring with the mentality that “I can do sooooo much better than those lametards” and you just gotta go out to the club with your girl posse to shake off the blues. At the same time this is happening, heed the warning of Timberland’s vocals, because, you see, it’s also a cautionary tale.
Key lyrics:
I ain't got no money
I ain't got no car to take you on a date
I can't even buy you flowers…
…I ain't got no Visa
I ain't got no Red American Express
We can't go nowhere exotic
4) “Inner City Pressure” — Flight of the Conchords
Take it from the duo who knows it best: Jermaine doesn’t seem to care about finding a job, Bret only rises through the ranks of the sign-holding industry, and their band makes little to no money touring Queens. Do they give up? (Spoiler: no, they do not). For those of us who feel our life is a constant montage in a film or music video, KJOB dedicates this one to you.
Key lyrics:
You don't measure up to the expectation.
When you're unemployed, there's no vacation.
No one cares, no one sympathizes.
You just stay home and play synthesizers.
3) “Rock Bottom” — Eminem
The poor man’s poor man who once knew the life of a poor man (until he found his calling during something called “8 Mile”). Eminem has always had the ability to exacerbate a bad situation into a full blown worst case scenario…but in the best way possible. Listening to this song you might actually feel that your situation of being unemployed isn’t as bad as the one Slim Shady paints.
Key lyrics:
My life is full of empty promises
And broken dreams
I'm hoping things will look up
But there ain't no job openings
I feel discouraged hungry and malnourished
Living in this house with no furnace, unfurnished
And I'm sick of working dead end jobs with lame pay
And I'm tired of being hired and fired the same day
But fuck it, if you know the rules to the game play
Cause when we die we know we’re all going the same way
2) “Spaceship” — Kanye West Feat. GLC and Consequence
Back in the day, Kanye had no fly gear, no trend setting threads, and no career as a successful rap artist. Plus, none of his friends had any of that either. Though Kanye’s day has come to fly high above the rest of us sunk in debt we can honestly say he earned it. Even if he didn’t, he’d say he did, and that can just be about enough. So here’s song to all of us who should have dropped out of college and followed Kanye’s path.
Key lyrics:
I remember havin' to take the dollar cab
Comin' home real late at night
Standin' on my feet all damn day
Tryin' to make this thing right
And havin' one of my co-workers say "Yo you look just like
This kid I seen in the old Busta Rhymes video the other night"
1) “Career Opportunities” — The Clash
They grew up during the London trash strikes, surrounded by poverty, and living in bombed out tenements. Barely knowing how to play their instruments or what they were going to do with their lives, The Clash proudly raised one finger to the establishment and never looked back. Maybe not the absolute best song about not having a job, but an anthem for anyone who never wanted one in the first place.
Key lyrics:
The offered me the office, offered me the shop
They said I'd better take anything they'd got
Do you wanna make tea at the BBC?
Do you really wanna be a cop?
Career opportunities are the ones that never knock
Every job they offer you is to keep you out the dock
Career opportunity, the ones that never knock
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