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Thought this was interesting. Across 160 teams of researchers, just about all failed to make good life outcome predictions on things like GPA, evictions, layoffs, and others. Data followed 4.5k families across 15 years, with 13k features (varied over time). Haven't looked at it directly yet, but will be turning the docs and data inside out... In the meantime, authors claim this as showing the limits of ML. Oh, and it's published in PNAS, so you know there's some big publication energy there.
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/15/8398
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Any layoff expected in bny ?
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Find a ritual that works for you. I worked out everyday five days a week in the morning, came home showered and headed to a coffee shop to send emails, have chats with people, etc. don't sit in the house! Be productive and take care of shit you know that has been on the back burner because of all of those late nights in the office. Go to the museum or see that documentary in the middle of the day. The job will come, but in the meantime reset yourself mentally, emotionally and physically.
Longest without a job 7 weeks. But I bring out all the stops, I make a spreadsheet of agencies and start reaching out. I ask for informationals, and found most people are willing to meet and chat. Even if there isn’t a position open it’s a relationship made. Extra tip, to make my follow up emails more fun, I try to share a link to something interesting ive read or seen.
You’ll be fine!! Keep plugging away
If you havent been laid off at least once you don't work in advertising.
I was laid off 6 years ago and have been freelancing ever since and now my career is in the gutter and no one takes me seriously and almost all of the partners I’ve worked with have gone on to bigger and better things and I wish I never even wanted to work in advertising in the first place and every time my friends or wife go on a shoot I want to die a lot inside. Hope that helps?
My story is half CW1's and half McCann1's. I did 3.5 years going gig to gig without a single day off between them. But other years, like this one and the one before that period, I only get 3-6 months of work. And my career is progressing exactly as you'd expect from that.
Looking for work is the absolute worst — constant calling out into the void and rejection. But I know three things:
1. My family is depending on me.
2. My marriage is horribly strained when I'm not working.
3. And the more I actually do to look for work, the better results I get in securing it.
But I'm not gonna quit.
Better than ever. So happy it happened. Went freelance. Made way more $$$ for almost a year, learned a ton and one of my FL roles switched FT at the next level up. Ended up with a better title and 25k increase.
Been laid off twice in the same year. First time after a decade in a tech company that got bought then went to a startup that didn’t start and was shutdown after 6 mos. was lucky and found a new gig in 4-6 weeks both times. No drama since. Act like finding a job if your new job is the best advice I can give you. Some of my friends who were also laid off used their severance like it was vacation money and regretted the fun when the money ran out. I saved it until I got the new job then paid off my student loan. I also settled for a job that I would not have taken normally. The startup wasn’t glamorous and there was more travel than I wanted but it gave me the connections to the next gig that I really wanted.
Each time I’ve been let go I treat the job search like a job and not a vacation. Someone earlier mentioned getting into a routine and sticking with it and I think that’s great advice. Aside from a really long dry spell in 2002, I’ve always found a new job within 4-8 weeks, and treated my severance as an emergency fund and not vacation money. Just keep at it and you’ll be ok—good luck!
CW2, a little of both. Never wanted to work somewhere shitty. Never got the full time I wanted anywhere that was a little better than shitty.
I was laid off 8 years ago and it ended up being the best thing that ever happened. I was able to finally start my MBA which I had been putting off, got some freelance work to supplement and that allowed me to take some pressure off and be in a great place when the right position came along
CW1, that sucks man sorry to hear it. Out of curiosity, were you freelance by choice or have you consistently been trying to go full time?
Why not just freelance?
Most medium to big shops offer referral bonuses so if you’re any good people will be more than willing to help out
I got laid off and it was the best thing ever. I bought myself a backpack and traveled for 6 months. Got a job right after my adventure was over.