You’re fast asleep, snoring, dreaming happily that you’ve quit work, you’re somewhere warm, siestas, great books, cocktails at sunset. Suddenly though, something jolts you awake. Good morning, reality! Now you remember. Reality is that you’re unemployed and your redundancy dollars are going down while your living costs go up. Buying groceries brings on anxiety attacks. Ahead again today: drudgery, scanning jobs ads, LinkedIn to Seek and back again, writing new cover letters, tweaking your résumé, sending out a fresh round of applications to add to the dozens you’ve submitted over months. Coffee. Despair. Coffee.

But then you remember…

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