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Well, it feels weird to talk about (almost like discussing it makes it real) but I was laid off from my tech job a week ago.

My layoff was not stemming from AI; instead, the company I worked for had a complete shift in how they were funded.

This meant fewer customers, which meant less demand for what I do (which, mostly, was "help customer debug complex technical issues in cloud systems that they, themselves, were generally the cause of").

I'm thinking this was my former employers first ever set of layoffs; I say this because they seemed genuinely distressed and the severance was generous. We'll be fine for a while and I'm looking as of now.

I have several options to explore - I have a network, it turns out. How strange. And I'm lucky enough to be in areas of tech that aren't as affected by the layoffs we see everywhere. We'll see how that plays out, eh?

Regardless, my biggest obstacle is sheer anxiety. I did not see this coming and this is one of the most anxious times of my life. To justify why this is I will just gesture to the world around us.

I'm not doing #fedihired right now but I will always re-boost when I see it.