Okay, Let’s Talk About This Tech Layoff Panic
Seriously. Open up your feed. Another day, another tech company “rightsizing.”
It’s enough to make you want to switch careers and go work in the woods, isn’t it?
Your brain starts doing that fun spiral:
“Am I next?”
“Was this whole tech thing a massive mistake?”
“Should I have just been a dentist?”
I’ve been there, because I’ve been laid off once myself. That knot in your stomach? It’s real. The confusion, the self-doubt, the endless scrolling through LinkedIn job posts at 2 AM, I know that feeling firsthand.
But here’s what I learned through that experience:
The headlines are selling fear. But what we need is clarity.
The Media Loves Bad News
Think about it. What gets more clicks?
“Big Tech Co. Hires 200 New Engineers for AI Push” or “BIG TECH CO. CUTS 200 JOBS IN SHOCK MOVE!”
Exactly.
We don’t see the quiet hiring, the teams scaling up behind the scenes. We just see the explosion. It creates this weird illusion that the entire industry is on fire, when really, A few parts of the industry are still struggling. Companies are still hiring. They’re just not being showy about it anymore.
We’re Just Waking Up To Reality
Let’s be brutally honest. The years from 2020 to 2022 were a straight-up tech party. Money was cheap, growth was everything, and companies were hiring people to hire people. It was insane.
Now the music’s stopped. The lights are on. We’ve got a killer headache, and we’re looking around at the mess. These layoffs? It’s the industry finding its way back to what it was. It’s not an apocalypse; it’s a much-needed cleanup after a bender. They hired for a fantasy; now they’re staffing for reality.
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Your Job Title is Junk. Your Skills are Gold.
Repeat after me: “My job title does not protect me.”
What protects you? What makes you un-ignorable?
Being the person who actually built something and can explain how it works.
Having a GitHub that isn’t just a graveyard of tutorial code.
Knowing the latest framework everyone’s whispering about.
That’s your armor. That’s your real resume. The people panicking are the ones who got comfortable. The ones who kept their edge? They’re already getting calls.
Getting Shoved Out the Door Can Be the Best Push You Ever Get
I know, I know. It sounds like a line from a bad motivational poster. But hear me out.
Talk to enough people in this industry, and you’ll hear a common story. Someone gets the dreaded email. They panic. Then, after the initial shock wears off, they use it as the forced break they never would have given themselves.
That break becomes the space to finally launch that side project, pivot into a new specialty like AI, or just remember what they loved about building things before it got buried under corporate processes.
They never would have had the guts to quit their comfortable job. The layoff did it for them. It forced a change they desperately needed but were too scared to make. Sometimes the universe fires you so you can finally get started.
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The Bottom Line
Yeah, this sucks. No two ways about it. The uncertainty is a gut punch.
But tech has always been a rollercoaster. This isn’t our first drop, and it won’t be the last. The people who survive and thrive aren’t the ones clinging to the safety bar. They’re the ones who learn to put their hands in the air and adapt to the ride.
Keep your skills sharper than everyone else’s. Talk to people. Build things, even stupid little things.
The tech world isn’t ending. It’s just getting a software update. And you’re smart enough to learn the new system.
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