For several years I was one of the guys who was not ashamed to live off the taxpayer, who was at work 9-5 often putting in long hours of over time to feed their families whilst trying to find financial stability amongst other things. This however was over a period of time I was learning to deal with the death of my brother through suicide. I then settled for doing nothing, I no longer had my best friend to confide in. I eventually got tired of doing nothing. So I became one of the many who went to work and made a hard earned living. This for me was a new lease of life. Job stability at first was unstable as I was jumping from agency to agency in order to secure the longest term of work I could. I thrived in the beginning because I loved work and the routine that came with it. I also loved the satisfaction of not being on government handouts and not being a number in the unemployment figures. As I settled into work life, say no more than 2 years down the line, my world was torn apart. On mother's day 2017, at the age of 43 my mother passed away. It was unexpected and a major shock. I stopped working for 8 months and I started to notice a shadow of my former self reappearing which I did not want. Then came a small lump sum of money through inheritance. Something I did not want to do was waste it, so I brought a licence, completed a CBT test, purchased a motorbike and secured a job I love doing through deliveroo. Everything went swimmingly for 5 months until the end of january 2018 when bike thieves managed to steal my motorbike in the space of 5 minutes from a very busy area of Birmingham, and I didn't have theft insurance! I was left without a job, without any income and totally devastated by the theft. After reporting it stolen, as I hadn't heard anything after a few weeks I was resigned to the fact it had gone and I couldn't replace it.
2 months later I had a call to say it had been recovered. It's has been damaged to the value of £300. Help me get back to work