I've never subscribed to the 'yesterday was better than today' party, mostly because I can't see the point.

I don't know whether being an adult in the 1950s or 1980s or 2000s was better or worse than being an adult in 2026 because I can't know. I'll never know. I'll never find out.

So what's the point? We get what we get, and what you and I get is being the age that we are, exactly where we are today.

However, I do want to touch on what is, in my view, one of the saddest, most miserable markers of our time: Linkedin's 'OpenToWork'.

There are many reasons why I don't like Linkedin but, for me, one of the main ones is I simply can't stand the OpenToWork mark around the circle where your profile pic is.

I don't like it because I know what it feels like being 'open to work' and it's one of the world's most terrible feelings that don't involve a health problem.

I've been jobless, including for extended periods of time, and I felt useless, humiliated, lost, and miserable.

OpenToWork supersizes those feelings, at least for me.

Also, sadly, so many people are being laid off across so many industries that it's truly depressing.