u/cvergz315

As the title says, I get the fortunate badge of being let go/laid off within 3-5 years. Great.

Here's a brief background of what has happened to me so far. I moved to Toronto in June 2019 from Niagara Falls after landing a job with a mortgage lender within the Financial District, just before I graduated from university. In 2021, I moved to another department. Then I was let go in November 2024 after being there for 5 years. (They were going through restructuring, but I also felt that I was being asked too much and I was giving too little. They were making everything a priority.) I was unemployed until March 2025, where I got a contract job. Things started to get hard so I started looking for a full-time permanent job, which got me into another mortgage lender at the end of December 2025. Then yesterday, I got the dreaded call that I was being laid off due to "decrease in leads". They said that I did nothing wrong and it wasn't performance-based.

I'm just feeling a bit shattered. I had goals to pay off my old debt, save up for a new apartment, and build up something in the background as passive income. I'm not really looking for sympathy. I'm more curious if other people in Toronto are experiencing something similar. It feels like I finally got myself back into a permanent position, started making plans for my future, and then had the rug pulled out from under me less than a year later.

For those who have been through something similar, how have you been navigating the current job market?

I am helping out a friend who is a fellow volunteer in Toronto. She is looking for a place to stay during the World Cup. Any leads would be greatly appreciated.

I've been helping a friend trying to sort out his application. He claims that he sent in his application in December to be a volunteer, and he said that he had his friend helped him out.

Fast forward to April. I was already in my role-specific training as a Host City Ambassador, while he has not heard from FIFA at all such as tryouts or anything like that. He couldn't access the Toronto tournament page (the city we applied for), only the main FIFA Community dashboard.

Now recently, he has access to the very last module called "Value of Volunteering", he has the Messaging tool under FIFA Community dashboard (but only has a notification about how the Messaging tool is new). He was asking me if he had accepted a role, given that those are showing up on his app. However, I told him that there are a lot more he needs to see than just a notification and that one module.

I think there is something wrong when his application was sent in December. Probably it's his friend's fault, application closed in December, and may have applied somewhere else

(Sorry for the rant, as I am also annoyed)