In a difficult year being unemployed, I learned what success really means | Sunil Badami

For the first time in years , I didn’t have any work lined up.

For many, the silly season starts after the Melbourne Cup , when we all rush towards summer , but for freelancers, it feels like a long winter .

I registered on all the usual jobs sites and upgraded my LinkedIn account, started updating my resume and website and started sending out applications.

I was often told that I was overqualified: something akin to being told you’re too good-looking to be swiped right.

Sunil Badami is more conscious than ever of the precarity of even so-called stable’ employment.

With the looming spectre of a Trumpcession, there might be many more of us out of work.

Perhaps now is the time to destigmatise being unemployed, he says.