> P.S. The "safe" job might not be as safe as it seems. It's been my experience that if you can get one 9–5 job, you can get another as long as you have a nont

> P.S. The "safe" job might not be as safe as it seems. It's been my experience that if you can get one 9–5 job, you can get another as long as you have a nontrivial amount of experience. For example, I last got laid off in March of 2016. In May of that year, I applied for a job that I ended up starting in June (and I'm still here two and a half years later).