An Engineer’s Guide to Surviving a Layoff
· 2026-09-09 · 原文
This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum ’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written i n partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free! I lost a cushy engineering management position at the same time I purchased a business, with a mortgage, three kids, and every other financial obligation of being an adult. It was one of the most stressful stretches of my life. If something similar has happened to you, I feel your pain. You lose more than the income For many of us, our work became our identity, so we don’t just think, “I don’t have a job anymore.” We start thinking, “I’m not an engineer anymore.” An apple tree in winter is still an apple tree. A car parked in a driveway is sti
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I lost a cushy engineering management position at the same time I purchased a business, with a mortgage, three kids, and every other financial obligation of being an adult.
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It was one of the most stressful stretches of my life.
If something similar has happened to you, I feel your pain.
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