"I have just been laid off - What do I do now?"
You just walked out of human resources with a pink slip in your hands you are in a state of shock as you walk down the hall towards your cubicle with the empty box they were nice to provide you to fill with your personal effects. You could never have predicted when you woke up this sunny morning that you would be part of an unemployment statistic by lunchtime. The only thing you were thinking about was finishing up on the final code review on the Java trading system deliverable and whether you would be ordering in to have your usual sandwich or going out with Jing and Vladimir to try that new salad place that just opened up around the corner. Now you have no appetite. A rush of fear overcomes you as the realization that you have just become a member of a new group, the unemployed. Now that you are the newest member of this club, one that no one wants to be a part of, all the realities of what this means comes rushing into your head, What will I tell my wife, my kids, my friends, how will I pay the mortgage that I was just about to refinance, Can I get a job now in this market, a market that more and more is looking like a recession.
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