The expression funemployment has been around for the last two years or so, spawned by the wave of job losses caused by the recent period of economic turbulence. Notable in popularizing the term was former San Francisco marketing executive Alexis Mansinne, who in 2008 decided to view her redundancy as a positive opportunity for change and started writing a blog entitled Funemployment. The word has also subsequently been used to headline other blogs and web pages devoted to giving the funemployed inspiration for what to do.