Illusion of Job Security in Today's Economy
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What if the algorithm isn’t your audience and the grind isn’t your path to growth? We open the door on a season of deliberate change: combining four sites into one living hub, rebuilding a platform we actually own, and choosing strategy over endless posting. Along the way, we pull on a headline that should make anyone who values work stop short: a cleaner dismissed after 17-hour days across two jobs for 16 years. Policy debates aside, we ask a harder question—who gets punished for showing up, and who writes the rules that decide what’s “too much”?
From there we go wide. Morning rituals become more than habits; they’re shields against targeted media that scripts your mood by postcode and age. We talk about cycles—beginnings we celebrate, endings we avoid—and the quiet truth that some roles were priced to fit budgets, not drea
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Chapters
1. Building My Own Platform (00:00:00)
2. Routine, Mood, And Media Hygiene (00:02:20)
3. Transition To Self‑Employment (00:03:08)
4. Creator Network And Sovereign Space (00:04:15)
5. How Media Targets Our Lives (00:06:35)
6. The Cleaner, Two Jobs, And Punishment (00:07:49)
7. Pay, Promotion, And Hidden Barriers (00:10:35)
8. Strategy Over Grind (00:13:05)
9. Cycles, Security, And Illusions (00:15:20)
10. Global Markets And Local Dreams (00:18:10)
11. Contracts, Risk, And “Job Security” (00:21:10)
12. Migration, Work Others Avoid, And Worth (00:24:00)
13. Personal Reflections, Place, And Pace (00:27:10)
14. What We Trade For A Paycheque (00:30:20)
15. Survival, Suppression, And Open Doors (00:33:30)
16. Closing And Listener Reflections (00:42:10)
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