<story><title>The hero&apos;s journey of getting laid off</title><url>https://backtohumanity.substack.com/p/getting-laid-off</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>I got laid off from a company after nearly 20 years of work there.  I was very lucky to get a big company layoff type package of ~ 9 months of pay.  I decided to take it as opportunity to do new things.&lt;p&gt;It was still a worrying experience, had kids, family to take care of, but I chose to take that money and time and enroll in a coding boot camp and go in a new direction in life after age 40.  I figured I wasn&amp;#x27;t going to see a lump sum of 9 months pay and time to do something with it ever again so I was going to take advantage of it.&lt;p&gt;Years later now I&amp;#x27;m very happy with the decision.  Starting over was stressful, but I&amp;#x27;m much happier with what I do now... and I don&amp;#x27;t think I would have done it if I hadn&amp;#x27;t been laid off.&lt;p&gt;It was still traumatic, but I don&amp;#x27;t think I would be on this side of things had it been easier...</text></comment>
<story><title>The hero&apos;s journey of getting laid off</title><url>https://backtohumanity.substack.com/p/getting-laid-off</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tra3</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m thankful that the school that I attended forced us to take electives outside of Computer Science and Engineering. I took some Psychology classes. The list of stressful events was very surprising to me. The author alludes to it in the post. I recall that typically &amp;quot;happy&amp;quot; events are stressful, too.&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s the list [0]:&lt;p&gt;Death of a spouse (or child*): 100&lt;p&gt;Divorce: 73&lt;p&gt;Marital separation: 65&lt;p&gt;Imprisonment: 63&lt;p&gt;Death of a close family member: 63&lt;p&gt;Personal injury or illness: 53&lt;p&gt;Marriage: 50&lt;p&gt;Dismissal from work: 47&lt;p&gt;Marital reconciliation: 45&lt;p&gt;Retirement: 45&lt;p&gt;I recently went through a layoff, like probably quite a few in our industry lately, so it rings very true to me.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;paindoctor.com&amp;#x2F;top-10-stressful-life-events-holmes-rahe-stress-scale&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;paindoctor.com&amp;#x2F;top-10-stressful-life-events-holmes-r...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>