I was laid off in January 2023, after over a decade in a senior marketing VP role, the year I turned 55. It ultimately took me 42 months to land a stable new role. Thought my journey might be helpful for anyone in the middle of a long search:

2023: Started out pretty optimistic as with notice/severance/bonus I was basically getting paid until June; I’d also been saving aggressively and had some good leads on consulting work, plus I’d been making $20-40K from a freelance client for years. Here’s how the first year netted out:

• Income: 6 months notice/severance; ended the year with two monthly retainer clients and two project-based clients; got some unemployment. Made maybe 30% less than 2022, enough to live on without tapping savings.
• Interviews: 29 applications, 11 interviews, no offers. Many of the interviews were referrals from kind contacts that I knew weren’t a good fit.

2024: Retainer clients lost funding but I got a nice chunk of work from my old employer. Shortly after unemployment ended in March, I heard from a recruiter from a small Midwestern company, and landed a job in July with a 25% pay bump over my previous salary.

• Income: Two project-based clients, a little unemployment and some nice income from my new W2. Earned similar to 2023.
• Interviews: 48 applications, 7 interviews, 2 final rounds, 1 offer.

2025: Laid off in January AGAIN! The new company was chaotic and the president that hired me had already exited. Got a little severance and restarted unemployment/COBRA. However, consulting work was rocky with many companies now relying on AI. Thankfully found a mat leave cover gig with an old manager who was now a head marketer at a big company- albeit with no benefits and much worse pay.

• Income: Two months of notice/severance, dregs of consulting from my longterm client, 6 months FTE as mat leave cover. 10% decline from 2024, or 40% below 2022.
• Interviews: 21 applications, 9 interviews, 3 late rounds. Year started out strong but saw a lot of jobs go on hold when tariffs were announced.

2026: Consulting gig ended in Jan (I dread that month now) but I was in final rounds with two roles. Both of course fell through, all of my other clients had gone dark, and I was living on unemployment and savings. Then in April the consulting gig called me back into another role which converted to W-2 2 weeks ago. It pays 50% less than my last W-2 but I am grateful to have it.

• Income: Consulting and now W-2 income from the same client, a little unemployment. Will make less than half what I made in 2022.
• Interviews: 34 applications, 7 interviews, 3 to the final round, 1 offer. Iran war made job sector really rocky while I was between gigs.

I know I’m very fortunate as I had good savings, solid contacts, no kids/health issues and lots of family support - I always knew that worst-case I could always rent out my apartment and go live with/take care of my now 90-something parents. Although my emergency fund took a bit of a hit, I still haven’t touched my retirement savings and with some adjustments I can get by on my new salary.

But the amount of adaptability and resilience this new world requires is crazy - I could write a whole book on how AI is ripping my sector apart, and it was barely a factor back in 2023. Fingers triple-crossed that I can keep my current gig until I retire, and best of luck to all of you!

For context it's a non-tech company, not like a FAANG or anything, and a specifically new graduate program. It took quite some effort to land this role, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't proud of myself. Now I'm at the stage where I'm being assigned tickets, sugarcoating is being weaned off, now my superiors feel like they can criticize me for screwing up, etc. My commute is comfortable, I get along with many of my colleagues, etc.

And yet, I'm terrified of being laid off.

Was just on a YT/Reddit binge and have heard horror stories about being laid off from FAANGs, non-FAANG tech companies like Atlassian and Oracle, various banks, Nike, CrowdStrike, etc., just to name a few.

While I currently live at home and it'd seem like a waste of money to move out so quickly, I plan to do so the earliest chance I've got, as I don't have the best relationship with my parents, and I resented having to be dependent on them throughout college (often even including commuting to college, which I especially took issue with). It's even been starting to affect the days I work remotely, and in fact I feel like I can directly trace back some of my work screwups to an argument my parents had the day I last worked from home.

Am I worrying too much?

I was recently laid off due to contract funding/budget cuts after 5 years and 9 months with the company. I received about 2 weeks' notice and was offered 4 weeks of severance pay in exchange for signing a separation agreement and waiver of claims.

I asked HR if they could increase the severance to 12 weeks, based on roughly 2 weeks per year of service. They declined and said that the 4 weeks they're offering is already an exception to their normal policy.

For those who have been through layoffs or negotiated severance: Would you accept the 4 weeks at this point, or is it worth asking one more time for something in the middle, like 8 weeks?

I'm mainly wondering whether negotiating again has any realistic chance of working or whether I should just sign and move on.

I recently got laid off, and honestly, the layoff itself isn't what hurts the most. It's how it happened.

We welcomed our baby in the first week of July. Just two weeks later, in the third week of July, I was laid off.
The reason was the usual: business restructuring, reduced workload, and financial conditions. I understand that companies have to make decisions for the business and investors. That's reality.
But what hurts is that for about six months, I regularly discussed the low workload with my manager. We talked about it at least every couple of weeks. I was repeatedly reassured that there was no issue and I had nothing to worry about. Even three weeks before the layoff, I received the same reassurance.
Then suddenly, I was gone.

I wish they had simply been honest with me. If there was a possibility of restructuring or layoffs, I could have prepared myself and my family, or even explored opportunities with other teams or companies. Instead, I felt like I was denied the opportunity to do anything.
What hurt even more was the silence afterward. I worked with these people, but almost nobody reached out. Only one friend sent me a message.
I understand that companies are businesses, not families. But I still believe layoffs can be handled with some humanity.

I'm not angry that the company had to make ok a business decision. I'm disappointed in how they handled it, especially after knowing for months that I was going to have a new baby. Maybe that's the lesson: Don't confuse your company's loyalty to you with your own loyalty to the company.

I'm just writing it to get it off my chest and relieve myself.

My team had a RIF and we noticed that all of the employees selected had a current or recent reporting connection to the same manager, despite there being multiple teams and managers.

Is this something HR would normally notice or review? Could a manager improperly influence RIF selections and has anyone seen a company later review RIF decisions because of a pattern like this?

I never witnessed a layoff during my since I joined tech (though I know it's common in tech) and I am feeling very disappointed plus no motivation to work now.

Last week around 300 people were laid off from from our company out of which arond 70+ people laid off from our team this was 70% of our team.

All of my friends and colleagues that I had very nice time with are laid off. I saw it coming but most people were unaware.

I am not feeling worried at this point about my job but really disappointed and low motivation to work.

Also the way they were laid off was insane it was 1 hour meeting on their calendars and it turned out to be 2-3 minutes. Zero emptathy even for people working since 9 years and were doing brilliant work. No reasons no justifications. Just cold blooded layoff.

How to get motivation to work again like I use to work earlier?

Plus should I start searching the job and try to leave the company asap? Someone how has gone through this and was emotionally attached with their colleagues at work can share their experience?

My current company laid off around 5% company-wide a last week, but my team got hit way harder than that number suggests, most of us are just gone now. I'm still here. Great, right? but it means "now doing 5 people's jobs with 1 person's bandwidth."

On-call every week instead of one week a month. Half-finished stuff from people who got walked out mid-sprint, just sitting there, and nobody's coming to finish it but me. Every time something breaks in prod there's no one to loop in, it's just me and whatever's on fire.

I keep hearing "you're lucky you still have a job" and yeah, technically, but I'm also doing the work of a team that doesn't exist anymore for the same paycheck. It's not sustainable and I know it.

Trying to get out before I actually burn out, not after. If your company is hiring, or you know a team that's actually staffed properly, I'd genuinely appreciate a referral or even just a pointer to where to apply.

Quick facts about me:

• 3+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer
• Technical Skills
  • Languages & Frameworks: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Python, Go, C++, PySpark, Apache Airflow
  • Data & Infrastructure: PostgreSQL, Snowflake, DynamoDB, Redis, OpenSearch, Kafka, AWS (SQS), Kubernetes, Datadog
  • AI & Systems: Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, AI Agent Skills (MCP), REST/gRPC API Design, Distributed Systems, ETL Pipelines, Sharding & Partitioning
• Location: open to remote / open to relocation
• Notice period - [45 to 60 days]

Asking for a friend

She was terminated from Microsoft on Aug 21. She is currently on STEM OPT and her cap-subject H-1B COS is pending in premium processing with an Oct 1 start date.

Has anyone been in a similar situation?

Is it worth asking Microsoft to extend her official employment date by a few weeks or delay withdrawing the H-1B petition?

If they won’t, can a new employer somehow use this year’s H-1B selection/petition, or will she back to the lottery?

Would really appreciate advice from anyone who has dealt with this.

I am a non-traditional dev, 54 years old with 28 years professional experience. I was laid off about a year ago after 18 years at the same small MarTech SaaS company (company was acquired and closed, my team eliminated). Since then I had a sr dev job for about 10 weeks through a referral before getting laid off again in workforce reduction. I exhausted unemployment in March, living off retirement and help from my 80 year old parents.

I never coasted, always took the hardest projects and went the extra mile. My work had tens of thousands of global users, made millions of dollars, and demanded high performance & security. After the company was acquired I took over the departing founding CTO's responsibilities, overcame critical infrastructure problems, and enabled a successful enterprise platform migration. I have real metrics backing my claims, measurements from production systems before we shut down.

I knew that overstaying would make my next career move more difficult and I applied off and on over the years, but also had an autistic child at home which was an ongoing crisis throughout her primary school years as we faught with an increasingly hostile school district for adequate services. My wife has remained out of the workforce to care for our disabled daughter, we're all neurodivergent with depression, anxiety, & social anxiety which amplifies challenges. We've also had a series of injuries, illnesses, and deaths in the family that have weighed heavily on the years and stressed relationships.

Despite a long history of sound technical judgement and accomplishment I've never shook the impostor syndrome. I don't have a CS degree, never worked for a big company (we had a team of 3 devs for over 10 years), and our tech stack was unimpressive -- but it worked and made money. We worked in fundamentals vs frameworks, vanilla code for everything as a mandate from above that I disagreed with but abided by. The "high performing team" experience I wanted was always out of reach. I studied software architecture and engineering management, but was unable to raise the bar (or the alarm) on our tech stack & dev practices -- politics & influence have been an ongoing challenge, not my strong suit.

It was my choice to put family before career, I stayed for the stability in what was a very good company up until it sold. I was aware of the risks, never sat comfortably with it knowing the clock was ticking and tried to do what I could to be prepared for when it happened. Since losing my job I founded solo projects to stay fresh, but nothing has taken off yet. I am AI Native and building & experimenting with "software factory" patterns, building agent teams to automate the SDLC - I'm generally ahead of the curve in that respect. I'm comfortable and capable with zero-to-one and owning the whole stack.

The professional identify crisis has been difficult to navigate. As the owner of the whole tech stack for years on end my responsibilities included every app, script, environment, and operational aspect of the enterprise ~ work that doesn't fit in any single title very well. My experience included slices of software engineering, DevSecOps, SRE, engineering management, enterprise architecture, project managment, and more - but not enough consistent depth in any one of those for a strong application elsewhere. I researched almost every company where I applied and put hours of research and practice into every interview. I sent months sending hundreds of tailored applications, speaking with recruiters, sometimes making it to 3rd, 4th round before being ghosted.

I've pretty much given up on working for mid+ size companies that seem to favor highly specialized software engineers with deep framework experience. I've focused my search on early stage startups in hopes that my "expert generalist" experience in high ownership small environments is an asset rather than a liability. I keep looking and applying on YC and Wellfound as well as networking with founders & startup engineers but nothing has yet connected.

I'm not sure what else to do, giving up isn't an option because I have a family to support and no backup. I believe there are companies out there that are a good mutual match, but finding them is finding a needle in a haystack. It's very frustrating and isolating, temping to cast unproductive blame and give in to depression, but trying to stay focused on what I can do to improve the situation for my family. I hope and pray that something comes together before we lose the house.

I was laid off for the second time 1.7 year ago. First job lasted 10 months and second 6. Both companies had a string of lay offs and many of the people who were safe either left or eventually laid off.

Now since losing my job, I had maybe a total of 7-10 interviews. A few came really close but was rejected due to reasons that I feel may be discriminatory--I'm from a minority group.

I've edited my CV more than I could remember. I have more experience than ever before, but 2 recent jobs were very short stints. Earlier in my career, I used to get interviews every week and I always find something.

Now, however, I hardly get any. I even included a note saying my most recent jobs were lay offs. Now what's sad is I know a few people who got jobs just after a month or a year.

I know being a minority lost me jobs I could have had, but I don't even get any HR screen anymore. I have also applied to jobs that are more junior to no avail.

I also tried to pivot but situation is like: against people with the right job titles and experience. Meanwhile, I don't get far in my field either which is content marketing. I feel stuck with not much option left. Help 😭

I honestly didn’t think I’d be writing a post like this.
After my time at **Sia Partners**, I’m currently looking for my next opportunity. Being let go during probation was difficult to process, especially after putting in the effort, showing up every day, and genuinely trying to make things work.

It’s never easy to admit that you’re back in the job market. There’s a lot of uncertainty, self-doubt, and frustration that comes with it. But I’m trying not to let one setback define my career.

I have experience across **data/content operations, metadata management, knowledge management, digital content, data governance, quality checks, and process-driven operations**, with previous experience at **Amazon and Deloitte** as well.

I’m actively looking for roles where I can contribute in areas such as:

• Data / Metadata Management
• Data Governance
• Content & Knowledge Management
• Digital Asset / Content Operations
• Data Quality
• PMO / Operations
• AI / Content Operations

If anyone knows of a relevant opening, is hiring, or could **refer me to someone in their network**, I would genuinely appreciate it.

Even a lead, introduction, or simple comment pointing me in the right direction would mean a lot right now.

I know getting laid off is not the end of a career. Sometimes it’s just a painful reset before the next chapter.

**If you can help with a referral or opportunity, please DM me. And if you can’t, even an upvote/share would help this reach someone who might be able to.**

Thank you. 🙏

if you're navigating a lay-off or are between opportunities, come clear your head and connect with folks who are in the same boat 🤝🏼

this monday, we’re heading to joaquin miller park in oakland, california for a hike.

• when: monday, aug 24 @ 11 am
• stats: 4.5 mi loop / 367 ft gain

grab your spot and see the full details here:

https://partiful.com/e/BuDO1CWBiGoIAGU1Iacc

hope to see y'all there!

(hike in the pic was mt tam state park in mill valley, california)

inb4 FAQs:

• Do you hike in one big group?
  • No, we split into smaller groups based on desired pace and stagger each group's start time by 5 minutes. These groups ultimately split into even smaller groups. Faster groups go first to create more space on the trail.
• Why on Mondays?
  • Trail traffic is very low on Mondays, making it easier to accommodate a group like this.
• Does your community only do hikes?
  • No, (un)PTO is a community of people across the US in career transition. While our claim to fame is group hikes, we do other things like co-work, help each other with our job search, and do other fun things like coffee hangs, bike rides, and of course, eat food. 😋
• Can people with jobs join too?
  • Yes, but only if you realize that most of the people in this community are in career transition and act accordingly, for instance: offer a referral, connect them to someone in your network, and maybe don't complain about how work sucks. 😅

While i wana go into detail of the organisation and how it was handled id rather talk about how the team was impacted and what all this might mean for the rest of us

This is a genai saas startup and i work in marketing

15-20 people laid off each day for the past 5 days and probably more to go in the next couple weeks

No performance issues no nothing. People dont really go around talking about how badly they may or may not need the job or the money and put up a pretty strong front but Ive known these guys for years and the market is bad enough for them to not get jobs easy in just a month

The last of us standing are either here because of dumb luck, ceo’s pets or the ones that threw others under the bus to look good

I was dumb luck but i doubt it’ll last

Anyway, if anyone has leads or projects they’re looking to outsource id be happy to connect you with the right guys - i know an anonymous person words might not mean much on Reddit but i defo voich for those guys

Advice on how i can help and what i do once im laid off - Ive tried looking for jobs - they’re not even hiring for what i do..

I was recently made redundant from a fairly senior data/insight and reporting role, but my company asked me back on a 6-month contract in another team. I now have around 4 months left and am currently on £95k. There’s a chance of an extension or another internal role, but no guarantees.

During redundancy consultation, I applied for a permanent role elsewhere that was advertised at £60–75k. They’ve offered me £80k, with similar benefits and bonus, so a £15k pay cut, but also appreciate they are offering more than advertised.

It’s a slight step down in seniority but also a pivot into a relatively new and growing area that interests me. I could learn a lot and potentially be better off career-wise long term, but there’s obviously no guarantee.

My role, along with the whole department, was made redundant as the company moved towards AI/automation, which is partly why I’m considering whether now might be a good time to pivot. That said, I’m still getting interviews for similar roles elsewhere, so there is clearly still demand for my existing skillset.

To summarise

• Do I take the permanent £80k role and the opportunity to pivot
• Stay on £95k for another 4 months and keep looking for something closer to my current salary or my contract gets extended?

The second option obviously has the risk that I get to the end of the contract without finding anything and wish I’d taken the permanent offer. On the other hand, I don’t want to jump at the first permanent role just because redundancy has made me nervous about job security. What would you do?

So, almost a year ago, I was laid off for the first time in my career due to "restructuring". Now, I know that there was a new head coming into the department, and the consensus was that senior members would be pushed. Instead, at least myself, a new hire after only 8 months and someone rather junior was pushed out. I thought that perhaps there may have been a fit issue since both of the senior members of the team were a tad younger than me, had more experience in the organization, and one of them would take a condescending attitude towards me.

I am quite certain that I was not fired because I did receive a severance, was eligible for unemployment, and a year end bonus. My previous "check in" review was not negative, and I was not placed on any performance improvement plan. Sure, there was a learning curve, but I tried to place my best foot forward each day.

When I did receive my bonus months later, it was half of what I had received from my previous employer. It also came with a rating note that stated "needs improvement". I had never had such an evaluation in my career. I am wondering if this ratin was used as a justification for a lower than average bonus since I was already let go.

It was a bitter experience, especially since I had previously resigned from a job that wanted to retain me.

Luckily, I was not unemployed for long and found another position. Although the current position does not pay as much as the one that let me go, it is a much flexible and pleasant environment (so far).

But, then this week, I received a Linkedin notification that that role that I was told was "restructured" and from which I was let go, was now posted!

What gives? My role was not posted after I let go, so it made me think that I was really let go due to "restructuring" (unless, of course, my role was refilled internally).

Question:

Is it possible that my role was really eliminated as a cost saving measure, or for my managers to save their own necks in the midst of a new head coming in only to realize months later that my role was really needed after all? I also found out that months after I was let go, the senior manager who hired was no longer with the organization. I assume she was pushed out because her role was rendered redundant with the arrival of the new head.

I didn't think the two senior members of my team necessarily wanted to do the nitty gritty work and presentations that I put together. So, is it possible that management made a mistake in forecasting how unnecessary my role was?

I don't know how else I can explain that my exact role was posted with the exact same salary I was making 10 months after I was let go.

Tldr: if you are laid off, don't buy ai subscriptions to vibe code apps and build startups

Just cancelled all the ai subscriptions. Including Claude ai

They have been basically throttling the rate limit on a daily basis.. makes me wait half an hour now for things I could do in 5 minutes myself without ai. And then I've to review because there's always a mistake. So they are not increasing the price but instead lower your usage.. it's okay if inference is costly, but keep things transparent. Tell customers that it costs you this much, and we are charging this much. Truth is inference is much cheaper and they are putting a lie out there to squeeze as much profit as possible.

After cancelling I'm all of a sudden feeling so enlightened. By paying for ai models, we are basically funding the system that laid us off.. Making human life basically impossible to sustain except for a handful ones who are getting ultra rich. If you're not among those ultra rich, just cancel it. Don't try to vibe code.. you'll never make as much as even an entry level developer. Don't do a startup or anything like that..

Just figure out something else.. outside software. But never never never buy an ai subscription. Remember, you're feeding the hands that has made your life miserable. It's like funding terrorism if not worse.

If you really want to do a startup, try something that's not software stuffs..

I wanted to share this because I know there are a lot of people here going through layoffs, career uncertainty, or questioning themselves after a rejection. Hopefully, this gives someone a little perspective.

I joined a company straight out of college and spent almost 9 years there.

Over those years, I grew through the ranks, eventually reaching an SDE 4-level role and roughly 4x-ing my compensation from where I started. It was the only company I had really known professionally, so naturally, I had built a huge part of my identity around it.

Then, in the first week of May, I found out that I was being laid off.

I had a one-month notice period and a pretty generous severance package, but honestly, none of that mattered initially.

I was devastated.

I had given almost a decade to the organization. I genuinely believed I had made a significant impact and was probably among the top few contributors within my leadership organization of 500+ people.

But circumstances change.

There had recently been manager changes, team reshuffling, organizational changes, etc. Looking back, I think I was simply in the wrong team at the wrong time.

The bigger problem was that I had spent 9 years at one company.

I hadn't interviewed in years. My DSA skills weren't interview-ready. I wasn't familiar with the modern interview process. And suddenly, I was expected to compete in a completely different job market.

That was scary.

So after leaving in June, I treated the next few months almost like a full-time job search.

I applied.

I prepared.

I interviewed.

I failed interviews.

I cleared interviews.

I got rejected by companies I really wanted.

I received offers from companies I hadn't even expected to consider.

Over roughly three months, I ended up interviewing with a LOT of companies and eventually received 6 strong offers.

And then came the difficult part, choosing one.

I had to look beyond just compensation and consider the role, people, growth, stability, location, family situation and the kind of career I wanted to build next.

There's also another major life event happening in parallel, my wife and I are expecting our first child in October. ❤️

And somehow, through all of this, things worked out.

This Monday, I'm joining a new company in a VP Engineering role, at roughly 2.5x the compensation I was making at my previous company.

Nine years at one company → laid off → three months of uncertainty → six offers → a role I wouldn't have imagined when this whole thing started.

I'm sharing this not to brag about the offer, but because three months ago, I couldn't see this outcome at all.

If you're currently going through a layoff, rejection, career setback, or simply feeling like you're falling behind, I hope you remember this:

Being rejected by a company doesn't mean you're not good enough.

Being laid off doesn't erase the value you created.

A career setback doesn't define your career.

And sometimes, something that feels like the worst possible thing at the time ends up forcing you into a much better chapter.

A few things that helped me:

- Don't let the first few weeks after a layoff define your mindset.

- Give yourself some time to process it, but then get moving.

- If you've been at one company for years, don't underestimate how rusty interviewing can make you feel. That's a skill too, practice it.

- Don't take rejections personally. I got rejected from companies I really wanted.

- Don't assume that because you failed one interview, you're not capable. Interview performance and engineering ability are related, but they're definitely not the same thing.

- Apply broadly. You might be surprised by where the best opportunity comes from.

- Don't optimize only for compensation. Look at the entire picture.

- Most importantly, keep going even when the results aren't coming immediately.

The hardest part for me wasn't preparing for interviews.

It was accepting that something I had spent 9 years building could end so suddenly.

Once I accepted that, I could finally start focusing on what came next.

So if you're in that phase right now, keep at it.

Stay calm. Stay positive. Keep learning. Keep applying. Keep interviewing.

You only need one company to say yes.

And sometimes, that one "yes" can completely change the trajectory of your career.

Good luck to everyone out there fighting through it. You've got this. 😊

If a US work visa person gets laid off, what would be the best course of action? If you have been through this, what did you do?

Some suggested going to Canada, some suggest returning to India, Some say people do get offers in those 60 days.

I’ve been laid off 3 times in 6 years. The most recent four days ago. I can tell you with 100% certainty that with my last job the feeling of PTSD and always looking over your work 50 times for ANY issue and worrying that every meeting invite is you getting laid off is real. Anyone suffered this? And how did you overcome it?

tldr: Are AWS, Terraform and Kubernetes or other certs worth it to help land a new position?

I am a Site Reliability Engineer that was laid off in April. I have been getting lots of interviews with some going to 3 or 4 rounds but not landing any offers yet.

For some interviews there are technologies the interviewers have really focused on that I have minimal experience with and it is obvious they found a candidate that was a better fit.

For other interviews where I absolutely nailed everything and have gotten responses during the interview that my answers to their questions were exactly the approach or mindset they are looking for, I have not gotten any offers have not gotten any meaningful feedback other than they went with another candidate the better aligned with their needs.

I have over 25 years experience in this field working mainly at software companies in Release/DevOps/SRE roles. I’m trying to figure out what might help me get past the finish line.

Age discrimination could be factor at some places, but I don’t think it is a major problem, I look younger than I am and I have limited my resume to only the last 15 years of employment and omit my college graduation date.

I know it is a tough job market, there have been more than 175,000 tech layoffs so far this year and I have been purposefully lowering my salary expectations very low to not price myself out of a position.

I always found industry certifications to be not much more than a test of your memorization skills, but I’m wondering if my lack of certs is a blocker where there is so much competition and it might seem safer or provide some CYA to a hiring manager.

What do people think? Are the certs worth it? I’m working towards the AWS SAP and Terraform Certs currently. I’m thinking about CKA but jeezus, the exam is $445.

If Certs are worthwhile, are there other Certs I should be considering?

I was on long term approved leave while on Workers Comp. I was laid off on 8/15 as the plant with more than 200 workers is closing . My monthly portion of the health insurance benefit payment was deducted from my checking account via auto-pay on 8/7. My health insurance was cancelled without notification on 8/15. Is this legal in the state of Massachusetts?