Gary Izunwa was earning six figures when he quit his job as a LinkedIn account executive to work for the British Council after becoming frustrated with a lack of social mobility in the jobs market.
“I was based in Dublin because of the LinkedIn graduate scheme, but every eight weeks or so, I would go back home to see my family and friends,” Izunwa tells UKTN. “Almost every time, I had this realisation that while I was living comfortably in Dublin, with a lovely apartment and great holidays, my immediate family’s life and the lives of my old school friends hadn’t changed.
“This discrepancy made me keenly aware of my social mobility, but also of my inability to bring the people I cared about with me on that journey.”...