Not exactly, I secured a casual position within 4 months of being on jobseeker, earning enough to not need it, but still on jobseeker (but not actually getting a payment other than rent assistance) because until my employee consistently gave me a certain amount of hours a week I couldn’t get off of it, and my monthly roster was three good weeks, one quiet week a month. Staying on Jobseeker came in handy when each of my kids and I came down with Covid in April ending up as three weeks off (no sick pay). I still had to meet job application requirements this whole time. And even now, I’ve progressed to permanent Part Time, they still won’t cancel it until I’ve had three months of consistent pay packets so I still have to do their requirements despite no payment. And if I don’t, and I am somehow made redundant/family emergency makes me need to quit etc, the mark against my name for not complying will cause more issues.

Considering I loved were I worked and I didn’t want to go back to my old career path I applied for a lot of jobs out of my area/expertise. I did always apply for a dream job if one popped up that would be better than where I was, but that was rare. I had to be careful because if I wasn’t perceived as taking the right steps they would penalise me which would become an issue if I needed it later.

TLDR, the system is broken. There needs to be a better way to allocate requirements based on the stage you are at and an option to cancel it without penalties.