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It’s a dark time to be a tech worker right now::Nearly 300,000 tech employees have been laid off since last year, data shows.

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[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

Ohai. I rode the 1998/99 wave, got hit with the crash, took a cut in one job and grabbed a side-hustle, got laid off in 2006 in the company's 117th round of layoffs (bru-tal), and never been laid-off again. Because if I even smell a whiff of stink-of-death, I'm out. I still have the side-hustle, and in the gaps I just bulk up on it to narrow the gap. Works okay. Now my main gig is union, and since I deliver on my goals and I'm not a sociopath, I have some confidence they'll keep me around for a few years. That'd be neat.

[-] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Yup. I went back into academia, then rotated between that, military, and government work. Now I’m waiting to see if the other shoe drops and I either sponge off my partner or buy a beach house in Mexico.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I adjusted to the lower tier fish. Less money, but more stable and less stress.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Whats your side hustle?

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