Thank you for posting this. I’ve spent the past year in job limbo - IOW, my company has been waiting on a system conversion which is supposed to eliminate my job position but this “better” system that was supposed to be ready last June may not be in place until this coming June and, while the company won’t say what their future plans are for me and my work group, some here just assume we’ll be laid off.
So, while I may get lucky and not be job-hunting, I’ve lived with the threat of job loss ever since last winter.
Good luck to all of you who are job-hunting. If you go strictly by unemployment figures, the region of North Dakota-South Dakota-Nebraska is the best for finding a job. Here in Texas, our unemployment rate is still in the 8% range but we are seeing a ton of out-of-state plates down here which are either conservatives fleeing their liberal hellholes or liberals fleeing their current hellholes to create new high-crime, high-tax hellholes down here.
I’ve heard from others that worry about layoffs.
When I was concerned about being laid off, (ages ago — due to the economy): I did watch the job ads even though I was still employed.
It gave me a sense of comfort and directions knowing what I could do if I had to do it.