It’s been 6 months of unemployment, now what…?

So I actually had a rough first draft of this post sitting in my WordPress back from January. I had gotten laid off in December of 2022 during the height of all the layoffs happening in the tech industry. I was pretty arrogant and confident that I would be back in the workforce at some company, in some capacity in a month or two.
I was wrong.

The plan was to share what I did while I was laid off to land a job through all of the mess that was happening. It gave me some motivation during a few weeks and days when it seemed there was no end in sight. I also needed something else to do since my LinkedIn feed, became a graveyard of people posting long “I’m laid off statuses” and turned pretty negative and depressing anytime I opened the app, to look for a job.

At the time that I did start to write this I had a couple of leads, which again kind of lead to my confidence that I was going to be fine in a shorter amount of time than everyone else. After a few rounds of interviews with multiple companies, and even I kid you not, 7 rounds with one company nothing panned out. I just kept thinking to myself, “one of these has to hit”….. welp, here we are 10 months later.

Now I wasn’t out of a job for these 10 months, rather it was only 6. Regardless, that was still a long time, and a while for yourself to start to worry about needs and other things in life. Getting back to writing this article I learned alot, or just did a lot of things to better my chances. Now everything I have written below can’t be taught in a day, and some of it might just be my own personal experience. I think it’ll still help, and if you’re laid off right now, I mean what else do you have to do?

I wanted to share this because it might help someone out there who feels hopeless, you might be going through some of the downs I went through, and there might be some tips people haven’t told you about.

So I’m going to start breaking up all my lessons learned into separate posts and pull them into this page below.
They are mainly things that I have been doing long before this recession, things I started doing, and things I learned. Now that I have been at my current position for a few months I feel comfortable writing this post, given that there shouldn’t be any layoffs in sight (but ya never know).

There’s actually a good amount that should apply to everyone, and I believe holds true for anyone still going through the job hunt.