to be fair, it's likely that some of the others(that have their episode) saw it coming and made an "effort" proportional to ours :D

Building connections in domains of interest is something one should always pursuit and intensifying this might be the best immediate action to take.

Some other aspects:

- Keep your domain options as open as possible. Do not commit to a new career before securing it. This is vague advice, I know - but focusing on for ex. cybersecurity over general DevOps/cloud engineering with the security vector would be narrowing one's options.

- If you are not prepared financially, be very cautions.

- Manage your expectations, the major factor in a career switching is(IMO) luck and opportunity - over which you have no control but can sorta manage somewhat(ergo the networking).

Changing careers is a very general and realistic goal. Keep the way you go about it the same way.

I've found it very challenging, difficult and frustrating. Wouldn't do it again but glad I did it the first time.

Best of luck!

Had a regular end-of-the-month printing need of about ~500pages. To my great frustration it still kinda works - needs monitoring for jams, bad prints, paper replenishment, wifi connection loss, you name it.

Should've kept(and very likely will go back to) using the services of a local professional print shop.

My specific job consists of helping/automating my client's business problems/objectives and most of my effort is oriented around figuring out the domain and value I could bring to it.

Still, very much present/popular in the ecosystems I dabble in.

I suspect the original author of the article that spawned this comment thread prepared for the interview somewhat rather than watching TV instead - and still got sickened of the LT style interview.

Rejected the first time, low-balled below my communicated expected salary the second time.

The interview processes felt a lot like tech hazing - multiple interviews, a coding assignment, and an arbitrary review of said assignment compared to the job responsibilities. At the end, I felt plenty invested(both emotionally and timewise) to the point that I amused the idea of accepting the low-ball offer. I guess that even might have been the company's strategy.

I continue with my freelance work and looking.

*edit: I am in the EU.

Best of luck with your search!

Being familiar with fairly recent models(in the EU), if you sacrifice the AWD/4WD requirement, you can find some low-end minis/hatches that will do - if you would consider them. Likely the case in the US, too.

Going "up" comes with at least some of these undesirable(for you) features for all new cars I can think of.

AFAIK the only candidates that meet these requirements are older model cars.

> And when some people do layoffs, everyone does them. They're all subject to the same market pressures in the same industry. One company doing them gives all the other companies in the sector permission to do likewise. If a company doesn't follow suit the market might even start to question why.

I'd like to try and simplify this - it's simply the new "normal" and companies can get away with it(meaning the labor side does not punish it, yet - no unionising etc). In the EU layoffs like this are not as easy to pull off by companies.

Came across them via multiple sources, but what got me hooked was a reference from Robert Morris' work.

Kinda funny to reference this here :D.