How many times have you been laid off?
I’m in my 7th layoff before the age of 40 and I’m wondering how many more do I need to prepare for over the next 30 years? I work in business development/marketing.
1: Advertising Sales for a Magazine: No brainer, print is dead.
Second largest company in my industry was bought by largest company in my industry, they relocated headquarters
Startup - technically furloughed for a year
Same Startup Round 2 - still technically furloughed after a decade. Still trying to get funding.
Privately held company, ownership paid waaay to much for it from a PE and laid off highest paid employees to invest in equipment.
100 year old company was bought by 125 year old company - laid off corporate staff
Scale up that had grown 300% in 3 years, just laid off 1/4 of work force due to mismanagement and no planning