Not necessarily.
If you're actually good at your job, you typically end up with an even better job: https://hbr.org/2018/10/research-when-getting-fired-is-good-...
If you're actually good at your job, you typically end up with an even better job: https://hbr.org/2018/10/research-when-getting-fired-is-good-...
> a 10-year study of over 2,600 leaders showed almost half (45%) suffered at least one major career blow-up — like getting fired, messing up a major deal, or blowing an acquisition. Despite that, 78% of these executives eventually made it to the CEO role.
An executive can make a series of awful decisions and still advance in their career.
I wouldn't wish for you to get laid off to understand thee current circus, but I'd urge you to at least spend maybe an hour in some of the "Who wants to be hired" threads to understand the scale of the impact, and how even HN workers can be struggling.