I’m slightly annoyed about this one…
I worked with a man, he is around 52-54 years old. He always looked down at us, his colleagues, and made it clear that the job meant nothing to him.
he quit a couple of years ago to pursue his career in creative writing… I haven’t read anything from him, so not quite suee how good he is but he has definitely not been picked up by a publisher.
he lives in a rather nice area, rent free in a friend’s holiday home… he is very proud of this… and initially would make it sound like that it’s his place.
So I recently found out that he is on benefits… he is a fully capable, fit, young middle aged man with no family or children.
I think it’s a bit much that he is fully capable of working, yet he doesn’t … it’s a tough market but still, so something at least part time. Benefits are not there for fully capable middle aged man to live his dreams to become a writer…
I wish him the best, I hope he will succeed one day and probably would cut him more slack, had he not been so full of himself and looking down at everyone else…
I feel like it’s abusing the system though. There are people out there who do actually need help but imagine if we all did this 🫨