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It’s probably healthier to just move on, at least that was what it was for me when I was let go during the Great Recession when the company when bankrupt and reneged on severance paying only the legal requirements.

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Best way to move on is to find another role. Tough to do that when everyone is getting laid off and the market is bleak.

So if you can’t move on, getting support like this is probably the next best thing

Any advice for folks going through the same thing from someone who has lived it?

The short answer is start your own company and to contract. The more realistic you are about your abilities the quicker you’ll find work. For IT the big three are network analysts, database administrators and system administrators (cloud?). Endless jobs. I wish I had known that then but I was in telecom network engineering. It’s a limited field.

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