I currently have a job. One I’ve been trying to get out of for years, where no one will tell anyone what they want, and just gesture broadly towards abstract-sounding goals which can all be rephrased as “sell more”, even though I am not in sales.

People will often tell those who are unemployed that being unployed is the reason they’re not getting hired - that people want to hire those who are currently working - but that doesn’t seem to be true. Not in my experience, at least. And not since everyone decided to pretend the whole fever dream of a perpetual-lockdoen economy never happened.