This advice would’ve been great for the younger me.
My first layoff I was devastated. I was living out in the woods with my wife and newborn daughter with literally nothing – no savings, no nearby family, no plans, no contacts, nothing. I was a young bumbling idealist and my career was a series of amazing “OMG they pay me to have fun all day?” elations. That the dot com bubble would ripple all the way out to a small tech enclave in the Sierra foothills was nothing I had thought about.
I landed hard.
