Can Someone Please Give Me a Job on LinkedIn?

I am now working for myself as a window specialist, cleaner, and soon-to-be welder come January. To be honest, I am relieved that I no longer have to search for job roles on LinkedIn. The exhaustion of it all burned me out and left my stomach with an uncomfortable feeling of dread, the way employers looked down on my age.

Being 46, a fully qualified teacher with six years of strong social media presence, you would think I’d have landed something worthwhile. I didn’t give up, though—I found sanity in the kindness of a good person who gave me the opportunity to work for myself.

Self-employment is honorable, regardless of the trade you choose. Yes, we need more tradespeople, and that is absolutely true. We need to rise up and revive the British values of working hard for yourself, to put food on the table.

Don’t get me wrong—working for a company and getting a pension is great. But starting out as a sole trader and then turning that business into a corporation, so that others can join a culture of pride and learning to help feed their families, is something worth fighting for.

We live in a dark world filled with war and terror, where some folks survive on less than $3 a day, without access to running water.

The more capital we invest in building infrastructure and providing safe drinking water, the better it is for everyone.

LinkedIn itself belongs to those who wake up each morning, determined to work hard for themselves and their families.

In church, we give thanks to our Lord—and so we should. We can go to work and enjoy coming home to our families. And for those who are single, you are never alone as you rise up and start a new company.

Yes, it’s true that competition on LinkedIn is fierce, and my cries of "somebody, please give me a job" went unheard.

For all its AI-powered features, the platform still discriminates against many. Where is the fairness when hundreds of people are allowed to apply for a single role?

What have we become? We chase the dream of landing a perfect job, when we should be starting our own brands. We should turn over those stones and build our own recruitment processes.

The application process can be fairer, and we can begin to experience the joy of growing a brand from the ground up.

No, social media marketing isn’t easy when you’re just starting out on LinkedIn. But through hard work, study, and sometimes a bit of luck, you can build something truly worth living for.

Branding is an art, but the key to marketing yourself is hard work, whether it’s for employment or self-employment.

I know I will never design a recruitment system that creates a demand at the insane ratio of 100 applicants for every job.

This, my friends, is madness. Come on, Microsoft—turn off the engine and take a closer look at what LinkedIn is becoming. It’s slowly transforming into an auto-enrollment machine of false hope, with no meaningful paths to career satisfaction.

You can add all the courses you like, but if you don’t treat people as individuals and focus only on numbers, you will lose what LinkedIn once was.

A platform for connecting and sharing with others.

Don’t get me wrong—AI is a wonderful tool, but the human mind is far kinder.

We are losing our fundamental ability to be kind to others because of AI.

Please stop this, OpenAI—I appreciate the coaching it offers to help boost my personal brand on LinkedIn, but it’s no Superman.

The greatest mistake we humans make is thinking we are in control. We are not.

And after all these years on Earth, we still haven’t learned much about living in peace or helping the poor and sick.

We fight for wages, for equality in leadership, for the basic rights of men and women—when will it end?

Why can’t we hold hands and help each other up the career ladder?

I’m so sick of seeing over 100 applicants for every job posted here on LinkedIn.

We can put a man on the moon, but we can’t help a thousand people secure jobs at one of the world’s richest companies.

You might as well forget about technology—it will be the end of mankind.

In fact, mankind is already doomed by its own greed.

I argue this point by looking at the banking crisis of 2008.

We still haven’t fully recovered from that financial disaster.

The blood spilled in wars over the dot-com bubble and the Great Depression only add to the evidence that we are straying from our true purpose.

We should be helping each other find meaningful work, where the culture embraces us when things get tough.

We need LinkedIn to work much better—there is little hope left if we don’t.

Think twice before you display that green banner around your LinkedIn profile—"Open to Work."

No, I’m sorry. I am open to happiness.

We need to do better for our children, so please, please, LinkedIn, don’t give me a job today. I scream out loud—I refuse to participate in your cold, unkind job-searching process. Instead, I will build one of kindness, on my own.