The hell of being a jobseeker in 2026 |
As I tell my more consistently employed friends: many of you simply aren’t man enough for a real stint of unemployment. Of course, it looks easy on paper. Drag yourself out of bed at 11, sit in your pajamas until three, vaguely send off a few job applications, and then play Paradox strategy games until the small hours, before doing it all again the next day.
Yet those inexperienced in idleness cannot appreciate the suffocating anomie of such a life. Indeed, it’s a pain that regularly fells the retired before dust has had time to gather on their last employer’s parting gift. Most people simply haven’t built the survival skills necessary to exist without a boss’s nag.
As a man of some independent means and a veteran of sporadic unemployment, I can weather such hardships. It is the amateurs I worry for
As a man of some independent means and a veteran of sporadic unemployment, I can weather such hardships. It is the amateurs I worry for
It is troubling then that the Office for National Statistics have announced that joblessness climbed to 5.2 per cent in the three months to December. The minimum wage hike, raised National Insurance contributions and a stuttering global economy are all to blame for the increasing necessity of Tebbit’s proverbial bike.
After almost two years, it also means........