What have y’all been doing since laid off?

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Week 1: Bouncing back and forth on the grief spectrum
Week 2: Started working on a pet project I've been putting off. Blog, etc
Week 3: Applying for jobs
~ Week 4: High momentum and motivation from completing personal projects. Productivity peaked.
~ Week 8: Bought a MacBook Pro and experienced a productivity renaissance. Started attending 2-4 events per month. Completing 1-3 audiobooks per week. Coding every day. Much exercise and rest.
~ Week 12: Started learning Vim.
~ Week 18: Started learning AWS in more detail.
~ Week 24: Pretty good at Vim by now.
Week ??: Tired. Still trying to stay productive.

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In my bed eating ice cream and crying

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Writing on my website and trying to figure out what to do now. It’s been 8 months and my unemployment expired 2 weeks ago. This job market is absolute TRASH.

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Yea my unemployment expired about 3 weeks ago. If most of these jobs posted are just to keep shareholders from freaking out, and the economy from getting worse, I don’t know why there aren’t any journalists left who would report it. It makes no sense why the news is saying how the job market is great but in reality it’s sinking.

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Taking the free ADA section 508 True Tester certification course, google learning paths, auditing EdX classes, working on portfolio, and playing Witcher 3. You?

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Launching a start up 🤷‍♂️

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Online courses. Keep applying. network with others in the industry and get referrals.

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* if you’re in a good position to take time off do some, seems we all need a mental break anyway

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