I was on funemplyment for 2 years while I drove from Alaska to Argentina - it changed my life and gave me the perspective I needed to understand my place in the world. For me, work is a means to live the life I want to live, it's not my life.
Up here in the Yukon, tons of my friends are funemployed, doing all the things one never seems to find time for - knitting, a big vegetable garden, hunting, fishing, building a log cabin, etc. etc. It's hard to imagine where there is time for work!