Here's my $0.02 but most people won't like it. 1) Start by doing an extra 5-10 hours of work for your job. The good news is if you were already doing 60+ hours

Here's my $0.02 but most people won't like it. 1) Start by doing an extra 5-10 hours of work for your job. The good news is if you were already doing 60+ hours this is probably unnecessary. I don't have a reference to the study but people that work a lot tend to get paid more and are also usually last to go. 2) Start getting prepared for if were to lose your job. Start studying "Cracking the Code Interview", start running leet code exercises in the morning, and do some practice interviews with friends/family. Two things happen when you do this... 1) you just get sharper, which makes you more valuable (I can't tell you how many times I started prepping to leave and got a promotion from it) 2) you will be back on your feet faster. 3) Grab responsibilities that are available but aren't necessarily directly related to your position. Usually, but not always, when layoffs are required managers recognize the utility of someone that can cover work from someone that they would prefer to get rid of. I.E. if you can do some Devops, and dev, you're more useful than the person that can only do dev. This especially becomes a factor when people are overpaid. Axing 1 high salary, when theres someone that can cover the work makes good business sense