I recently got laid off from a hybrid work environment. It was out of the blue and I wasn't even given a chance to tell coworkers about it before my logins were shut down. Talk about a Manic Monday.

The biggest issue I have now, while job hunting, is my portfolio. I never got the chance to backup any of my creative work outside the company accounts from my previous position and now that I'm trying to apply for a new job andI have nothing to show for it.

Anyone else been through this before?

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Been in a similar situation and suck :(. Learned my lesson the hard way as well and now periodically save down everything I can so I have a backlog I can reference when I need to. Wishing you all the best in your job hunt and sorry about what happened

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I’ve lost work after being laid off too. Best I could do was look on client’s YouTube accounts and try to rip it. Or other coworker’s portfolios, in case they had it in their books.

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I also learned the hard way that I need to constantly be updating my portfolio with work. I’ve lost some and had to go through a ton of hassle to get others. Sorry about the layoff, and hope you can put something together for it.

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I’ve never been in a situation where i have not been building my portfolio all along or at least i had someone on the inside willing to package up a few files for me. Do you have anyone like that?

I did reach out but nothing has been sent yet. My old boss is trying but there are things she won't have access to, like my figma files. I guess it's a really hard lesson to learn.

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You didn’t keep personal backups on you?
Was this a government gig?

Holding cos prevent data transfers

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