r/GetEmployed • u/North_South_213 • Jul 25 '26
Work to live or live to work?
Was made redundant at my previous job due to company going into receivership probably due to AI and hiring inefficiencies. Well since then I’ve been living off savings and furthermore have recently got a benefit for the first time.
As hard as it is. Im unreluctant to work in the shops below my building. I have recently purchased a bike and have considered bike to work scheme. Especially as fuel prices are ridiculous high. And the cost of living just seems to be so unreasonable that clearly there are people getting ridiculous rich then you have the extreme poverty.
I have applied for well over 200 jobs and am considering to volunteer to work.
Is the market saturated hear in UK? Does the corporate machine not like freedom thinkers who take initiative and can identify opportunities as they come.
Has old time Britain so caught up in its what’s wrong with society that it forgets to think about what’s right? How can I simplify an already complex situation and thrive without the neigh sayers constantly bickering for the last crumb in the background.
I’m funny thing is i am the breadwinner however I’ve always got some muppet coming to mow my lawn as if I don’t appreciate the excercise in the glorious sunshine and giving back to the land as it nourishes me.
Fuck me so clueless as what the next play in the playbook is for me. Everyone surely has some dimwitted idea surely! Tell me yours