<story><title>Ask HN: Who has been laid off?</title><text>There is a monthly “Who is hiring” post, but I thought it might be helpful to have a laid off post with unemployment rates rising.&lt;p&gt;Share your experience and what you’re looking for.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ididntdothis</author><text>Where can people volunteer with tech skills? Is there a demand for it?</text></item><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m sorry to hear that dude.&lt;p&gt;Haskell is a demanding language, so you&amp;#x27;re almost certainly a pretty senior dev. If so, consider volunteering to help organizations during the downtime. Worst case, if you can&amp;#x27;t get that dream gig back it will certainly make your resume stand out when you&amp;#x27;re looking for your next thing. Best of luck.</text></item><item><author>jbreckmckye</author><text>Just been put on furlough with likely redundancy at the end of the national lockdown period. Absolutely devastated. My job was hard and the pace relentless but the work was extremely stimulating and my colleagues were absolutely fantastic people.&lt;p&gt;(It was also a Haskell gig, which is a real rarity.)&lt;p&gt;Right now I&amp;#x27;m just licking my wounds and waiting for the lockdown to end. I&amp;#x27;m not sure if it makes sense to start a new job right now - the UK furlough scheme is essentially guaranteed income until June. Starting a new job would waive that, so unless you&amp;#x27;re actually losing money on furlough I think it&amp;#x27;s a bit unwise to jump companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>erikbye</author><text>While not what you meant, if people with coding skills have free time, it is greatly appreciated if they contribute to open source projects that are widely used. A lot of OSS are critical components in many systems we rely on daily, your contributions can have more value than you can even imagine.&lt;p&gt;It would be great if all devs could keep this in mind, but especially the ones that are about to get some time off (if life does not get too stressful for you).</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Who has been laid off?</title><text>There is a monthly “Who is hiring” post, but I thought it might be helpful to have a laid off post with unemployment rates rising.&lt;p&gt;Share your experience and what you’re looking for.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ididntdothis</author><text>Where can people volunteer with tech skills? Is there a demand for it?</text></item><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m sorry to hear that dude.&lt;p&gt;Haskell is a demanding language, so you&amp;#x27;re almost certainly a pretty senior dev. If so, consider volunteering to help organizations during the downtime. Worst case, if you can&amp;#x27;t get that dream gig back it will certainly make your resume stand out when you&amp;#x27;re looking for your next thing. Best of luck.</text></item><item><author>jbreckmckye</author><text>Just been put on furlough with likely redundancy at the end of the national lockdown period. Absolutely devastated. My job was hard and the pace relentless but the work was extremely stimulating and my colleagues were absolutely fantastic people.&lt;p&gt;(It was also a Haskell gig, which is a real rarity.)&lt;p&gt;Right now I&amp;#x27;m just licking my wounds and waiting for the lockdown to end. I&amp;#x27;m not sure if it makes sense to start a new job right now - the UK furlough scheme is essentially guaranteed income until June. Starting a new job would waive that, so unless you&amp;#x27;re actually losing money on furlough I think it&amp;#x27;s a bit unwise to jump companies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zigzaggy</author><text>New York has a tech response team that you can volunteer with to help out: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ny.gov&amp;#x2F;programs&amp;#x2F;new-york-state-covid-19-technology-swat-team&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ny.gov&amp;#x2F;programs&amp;#x2F;new-york-state-covid-19-technolo...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;See HN thread: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=22723098&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=22723098&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>