I had a job like this. My boss/owner of the business abused a provision in the California unemployment system designed for seasonal lulls in labor pools. When e

I had a job like this. My boss/owner of the business abused a provision in the California unemployment system designed for seasonal lulls in labor pools. When ever I was out of work to do, I was sent home and those hours were paid for by the state at the usual unemployment rate. I was doing high level graphic production and design to which I am quite skilled. At crunch time I can get through mountains of work quickly. Then at normal work flows I could quickly run out of work if I gave it my all. Then there was days of work trickling in... Annoyed me to no end. Here I am in the best paying job I'd had so far in my career and the only time in my life I've been on unemployment all at the same time. I was making enough at full hours to pay bills and have a decent lifestyle but boy did that unemployment rate cut in to that. I became a master of looking really busy doing absolutely nothing. Or working a quick half hour job in to an hour and a half. Of course it helped the other hat I wore at the job was being the main IT guy...