"At the start of this year, I went back to contracting, and then I learned I had prostate cancer. It was stage one, and I was on active monitoring for six months. I did some more contracting up until July, when I was told I needed to have treatment. So, I had treatment, and all the signs were good. In August, I thought, 'OK, I can start looking to go back to work.'"
"When it comes to looking for work, LinkedIn becomes your daily go-to tool. For someone with ADHD, it's a double-edged sword. You can set up filters and get told when new jobs are coming up. But it's also this meandering pathway of links that you can disappear down for hours and hours. It can become another doomscrolling mechanism. I'm guilty of doing a lot of that."
"I spoke to some recruitment agencies and public-sector IT consultancies I had worked with before, and one of the things I picked up from that - and from searching on job boards - was that the number of roles had decreased. I noticed a slow but steady increase in posts about 'I've been out of work for six months' and 'I'm going to have to sell my house. I don't know how I'm going to look after my kids.' The negativity - it impacts you."
Baz Costello, 48, transitioned from a product lead and neurodiversity employee resource group chair at a large digital consultancy to contracting, then faced a stage-one prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment. After treatment he resumed job hunting and noticed a decline in available roles when contacting recruitment agencies and searching job boards. LinkedIn became a daily tool that also triggered ADHD-related distractions and doomscrolling. He observed rising posts about long-term unemployment and financial distress. One employer told him he was 'too senior' for a role. He is starting his own company intended to value experience and neurodiversity.
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