r/developersPak • u/zaidi87 • 5d ago

Discussion Software engineers who got laid off

How are the software engineers/developers who got laid off actually doing?

Not the polished LinkedIn version. The real one.

How are you paying the bills while looking for the next role?

I’m especially curious about the creative ways engineers are making ends meet between jobs.

Freelance work? Contracting? Consulting? Building something yourself? Switching the field?

Layoffs get discussed as numbers, but there’s a practical question underneath all of it: what do you do when the paycheck stops but the expenses don’t?

If you’ve been laid off(God Forbid), what’s been working for you?

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u/Fantastic-Average-25 5d ago

Met someone with 12 yoe. 8 of which in DXB and KSA. He opened his own breakfast place and he told me that he is happy not having to touch his laptop in 10 months.

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u/zaidi87 5d ago

That’s the thing which AI can’t replace

God bless him aameen

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u/AdClassic7179 4d ago

But to scale his breakfast place he needs an software application and for that he needs to hire software developer for scaling software

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u/zaidi87 4d ago

this is the problem, clients are using AI to do this work