No better point re: living in fear and rumorville. Same experience for me in 2008. I also saw the same effect post dot-com bubble. Layoffs in our industry are

No better point re: living in fear and rumorville. Same experience for me in 2008. I also saw the same effect post dot-com bubble. Layoffs in our industry are simply part of the long term game, part of a playbook that folks coming into it in the last decade or so probably haven't experienced. My eyes were opened in the dot-com crash - I saw too many extremely smart, hard-working, and accomplished developers get dropped and spend a year or more getting back into programming gigs.