You can tell the story of your research exactly as you want.
I often deliberately try NOT to come up with a hypothesis to avoid confirmational bias and a subsequent closed mind if results dont pan out the way I want.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with running an experiment for the hell of it and then trying to see what story emerges. If you then decide to tell people that you were looking for that result all along then that is up to you. Nobody has to see the scaffolding behind your thought process and it appears to me that researchers go out of their way to obfuscate how and why they did something.
In my opinion, the reason for trying something, or the hypothesis, is completely irrelevant. My philosophy is that I couldn't care less what you thought might happen. I only care about what you discovered.

If you genuinely have no clue what to do next, you should consider taking your time over it. In the meantime take on a job which will pay your bills wiout being too strenuous mentally. That will resolve your immediate financial problem and give you mental energy to think about your longer term career.
Stop panicking about being in bar work for your entire life. That wont happen.

Getting a good job which fulfills you is a full time job. On my part, I now run my own business whilst I actively work on longer term plans. Most of my week is spent doing the latter.

You are not alone.

Just noticed that. Grrrr.

So this is the new tactic then. Join the forum, post a few seemingly genuine enquiries and responses to others posts to boost credibility. Once "credibility" has been achieved, start advertising scam companies services.

Sigh! Many, if not all, of these companies are probably run by organised criminals. You would need to be insane to use them.

Maybe you just simply dont want the PhD badly enough.
I had my fair share of problems when I was doing mine and what I always remember was asking myself whether I wanted the damn thing badly enough or not. Fortunately I kept getting a resounding yes and this kept me going through some dark moments.

Before you start planning and organising anything you might want to start with that basic question.

If you have run out of money, the priority must be to start looking for work right now and attempt to get registered for Job Seekers Allowance.
That needs to be done right now because JSA might take some weeks to come through (6 weeks?)
For a quick job turnaround, I would advise you start phoning call centres today. You should be able to pick up something.
You will then need to fit your writeup around any job you get.
This isn't a great situation to be in but I can't see an alternative.

You need to cover bills and food in the meantime. The DWP should be able to help advise you. As far as I know there is help available for emergencies.

It's a real shame you weren't able to take up that job you were describing which was presumably a postdoc. It appears our backgrounds are very similar and this is an area I am also interested in. Hope you get things sorted out.