When I got sick of counting on other people to employ me after other people whom I had counted on to employ me laid me off, I went into business for myself. I spend 50 something thousand a year to earn my own (taxed) 50 something thousand a year. My getting mad and getting off my behind was good for me and a hell of a lot of other people.
There indeed is a fallacy that a job is something you always have to “get.” “Get a job!” Isn’t that what we always get on our high horses and tell the bums? But that is not the full picture of the possibilities. You didn’t “get” a job, you created it, and kudos to you.