This is my life since 2017: - joined big telco -> we are gonna cut from ops and save X and started doing layoff (GC Perm turned to literally a nightmare for me) - managed to survive the layoffs and perm went ok then covid hit in 2020 🤦🏻♂️ - moved to FAANG … and got introduced to PIP concept then worked my tailed off during the covid and survived - moved to e-commerce in 2022 and that was pretty much layoffs right and left in 2023 and got brutal in December that I couldn’t survive this time 😭 Past 7 years for m was literally like warzone … and now it is even worst with the existing market and ridiculous competition. The thing is I’m getting older and a lot less nimble l, health issues stacking up and life expenses are high… Im sure next 2 years won’t be any better and matter of the fact it is going to get worst. I’m not sure how would I survive these later on. Employers aren’t trustworthy and they hire today and 6 months later they layoff or pull offers … I’m getting interview anxiety as even when I have an offer I’m not sure if I have to stop cause at any moment I could get laid off from the new job or offer being pull off the table 🤦🏻♂️ What’s the way out ? TC 0
I feel like you need to reflect a bit on what you want out of life. I don’t see the point in being this miserable for this long. Few things in life are worth feeling like shit. I also have visa issues and green card shit to deal with, but I promised myself I would never be shackled to a job to stay here.
What exactly to reflect on here ? I’m being compressed between life expenses and being born some war torn apart sh!thole country in nowhere … born in poor family with a dad being a tv potato … You see a way not being miserable here?
Where are you from op?
It's good to let go
OP, if your green card is around the corner, stick it out a bit more. Else, better to move to another safe country that is more immigrant friendly (since you can’t go back to your home country). Layoffs are an unfortunate truth in the US and slowly this culture is percolating in other places they do business. But Europe is not giving into this yet. Explore that as an option. Layoffs on top of Immigration issues can tend to make you feel how you’re feeling and it’s not healthy in the long run. It’s time to think what’s really important to you and your family and alternative ways to achieve it without sacrificing your health or safety. Wish you good luck.
This is life. just like you my last 5 years have been total shit. I have been anxious for most of the time. Always under the fear of job loss. Thanks to bad manager in my pre-covid job and bad market in post COVID one. Sometimes I am not able to sleep at night thinking what future holds. I try to placate myself thinking about worst possible situation and how I will manage when my worst dreams come true.
You are not alone. I have been battling layoffs since 2007 in start ups, a mid cap company then two back to back large cap companies with $50B+ annual revenue and $500B+ market cap. In the end I came to the conclusion that size of the company doesn’t matter; I have friends happily working for small cap companies for 14+ years; they don’t care; then me constantly hoping around seeking stability yet every three/four years see world around me crumbling giving me job anxiety.