Things you have to do while unemployed: perform a full inventory of your entire skillset, implicit or explicit, and relate it to a comprehensive survey of every possible niche in the labor market, such that your extensive research can potentially land you the chance to eventually get to the non-algorithmic part of a recruitment process

Things you have to do while employed: when the little diode lights up, press the button

@sargoth As an embedded dev who spends most of his time getting diodes to turn on and off in extremely specific situations I guess you could say I'm a job creator