Welcome to the age of extreme job anxiety | Zoe Williams

Young, old, midlife – whatever your age, gender or sector, the unemployment crisis is hitting us all. The only way through it is together The personal experience of long-term unemployment is one people rarely share, for completely understandable reasons. There’s a bit of superstition that saying it out loud will bed it in, and there’s always one person in 100 who will choose to explain away the misfortune as your own personal failing. Even if they’re clearly in the grip of superstitions of their

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