"I was looking for a job, then I found a job. And heavens knows I'm miserable now."
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I could probably retire (I’m old) if it weren’t for needing health care. It would be so nice to live in a proper country.
Man, I feel this. Either face losing everything you own, starvation and homelessness or stuff your misery down deep and drag your sorry ass to yet another shift at the dream crushing factory.
UBI would be nice. Imagine working at a job you like because you like it, not because you need it to survive.
If only it were that simple.
It literally can be that simple if pedophiles didn’t steal it from us daily
We live in different realities.
Just gotta find that middle ground of becoming nemployed
I was looking for a job and then I found a job
And heaven knows I'm miserable now
It's a double decker bus.
Those luscious green hills over there? Oh that's where the Epstein-class billionaires get to enjoy watching us fight each other over scraps they send down to us.
you need to stop looking out the window and stare at your phone instead
Yeah, that’s where your DraftKings™️ account is.
Unemployed with money, however... I spent about 5 years 'unemployed' and living on income protection insurance, which gave me about AUD7000/month. It was great!
Having just gotten an offer after 9 months of being jobless, I can relate to this. Although the 1k/month hike vs my previous job is a nice incentive.
The opposite of this is "getting hired" and "quitting"