Mr Burgess told BBC Politics East that over the past two months he had applied for 80 jobs without success.
“It’s been a constant cycle of redundancies. I just have to keep going, keep pushing myself,” he said.
His mother, Amanda Burgess, said her son had been “knocked down so often” but “doesn’t give up”.
“It’s so frustrating,” she said. “There’s not much help out there. It’s a scary time.”
In August this year the government said it had announced an extra £45m to help “ensure that no young person will be left behind as we unlock economic growth”.
The then Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Liz Kendall said: “This government will not stand by while so many young people are not in education or training – robbing them of their potential and our country of its future.”