We ran our first the Job comeback event on Sunday

We Ran Our First Sunday. Here's What Actually Happened.

We Ran Our First Sunday. Here's What Actually Happened.

Eight people showed up.

That's it. That's the number. Not a soft-launch fudge, not "roughly ten," not "a small but mighty crowd." Eight people who saw a TikTok, decided that was reason enough to leave the house on a Sunday, and turned up to a café to sit with strangers.

One of them was someone people recognised from the videos before they even sat down — "wait, are you G, the rebel job seeker?" That's a strange sentence to hear out loud for the first time. It means the thing on the phone and the thing in the room are the same thing now.

People trickled in a bit after each other, which sounds like nothing, but it meant every few minutes there was a small moment of "oh — you're one of us too." No name badges, no icebreaker, no one standing up to explain the concept. Just people arriving into a group that already existed, mid-conversation, and slotting straight in.

Coffees, teas, iced coffees. It was hot. The air conditioning did more work than any of us did. Nobody had an agenda and nobody needed one — people just talked, the way you talk when the person across from you already gets it without you having to explain the gap in your CV or apologise for still being in it.

No CVs. No pitch. No one left early because it got awkward, because it didn't.

Eight people, one Sunday, one café. Small enough to fit around two tables. Big enough to prove the whole idea wasn't just a nice thought in a TikTok caption.

See you Sunday.

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