Layoffs hit the email marketing agency I worked for, about half the staff let go as clients stopped spending. I survived because I was "the SQL database guy." T

Layoffs hit the email marketing agency I worked for, about half the staff let go as clients stopped spending. I survived because I was "the SQL database guy." The multimedia company I had worked for previously shut down suddenly. When the marketing company started to cut back even more I left to work at a big logistics company writing Oracle code. The one skill that kept me off the layoff list multiple times: relational databases and SQL.