Have you ever been laid off?

Don't be in the bottom 10%. Bust your arse or go try to find a new job.

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Have you ever been laid off?

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Yes. March 2009.

Not a lot of other job opportunities to go around then either.

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Start looking asap. I knew about 2 months in advance and it still took me 6+ to find something in my field.

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This.

I didn't look and i turned stuff down b/c i was "committed" to the company and project. I wanted to see it to the end. All that got me was laid off for 5 months and a cashed out 401k.


ETA: Part of my commitment was the company telling us we had more work coming

Yikes that's what I'm afraid of. Thankfully my wife makes enough for us to survive but really worried about my career

2009. The only job listings at the time were in the medical field. If there was something, as an unskilled worker, your shot was pretty minimal at getting anything.competition was insane.

Plan ahead, as a matter of fact you should always have an updated resume and an eye to the job market in some regard.

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Thankfully my wife makes enough for us to survive

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I married a teacher. I had 2 weeks of severance pay plus 2 weeks of vacation pay. It goes quickly. Thankfully, i only had to cash out the small 401k and it was a better safe than sorry deal. I had a job coming, i just didn't know how fast it would move

not from like a real job but ive only been doing that for like 9 months

i did an internship during the summer after my first year of college. was a company that put together running events and iron man challenges, that kind of stuff. i was intitially told that i would be helping them, on site, with the races and help it run and all of that. they then emailed me a week later telling me they decided to "change" my role to where i would be only part time but i would still be involved with the actual races. turns out that wasnt really the truth. i ended up coming in twice a week and spent the day on the computer doing stuff like facebook and twitter posts for their company. i probably should have taken it better, but i was pissed that i was kinda lied to so i didnt do the best job and was fired after about 5 or 6 weeks

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Previous company just made a ton of bad decisions and stopped making sales.

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I know a little bit about this.

I really think our sales guy spent his time in his office jacking off all day. When our big project tanked (investors pulled out) we literally had NOTHING behind it.

Never have. Am nearing full retirement so I don't think much about such things, use to. Best of wishes and do not place all of your eggs in one basket.