I’ve not been able to prevent myself from drawing comparisons with the period of unemployment that I experienced as a university dropout, with the period of unemployment I am now experiencing as a M.Arch graduate. The former isn’t something I tend to speak of at length these days as it was bundled up with a bunch of other concerns that quite frankly are not the majority of people’s business. Why would I compare the two then? I was originally due to give a talk on my experiences as a student at Edinburgh (and subsequent life), so one thing led to another and I started to go down that particular rabbit hole, and here we are.