I wish you good luck finding another job!
Im glad you have notice of your soon lost job. You will find another, hopefully.
Prayers and good wishes for your future.
Laz, are you in any position to retire?
Based on the headline alone, I guessed you worked at a Walmart in Portland. lol
For freelancing;
Web and/or App dev is the huge right now so I would focus on learning some front end dev while looking/listing for backend stuff. There are quite a few freelancer sites that you can list your experience/services on.
Warning on front end web stuff. It changes fast.
For a new job?
I have no idea but there are websites for that too.
I chased jobs from FL to MO once. Moved back to FL and now I’m back to MO for he rest of my days.
If do want to or end up having to move, try to find a spot just outside the metro area of a mid sized city in a red state. Might be some conservative techies there already.
I gotta say I was a top rated engineer ($$$$$) when I got laid off at 57 years of age. I couldn’t find jack in my field - that would pay anything. Did my own business for a bit (still high tech), but got beat out by India.. Retired early, help a neighbor with his business and my son with his...
Good luck! That new door is opening
Glad you got some heads up, bro. Best of luck to ya.
Bumping
Why not be a social media influencer?
Try Sabre technology and also other areas in the travel industry
I hope your search yields great results. You may end up with a better job once all is said and done.
Seriously, good luck buddy.
Being laid off from the Mega-Corp was hard on our wallet but did open up doors because I had to get creative.
Now if only the government would stop slamming those doors on my fingers....
Yon't mine?
When the place I worked for closed unexpectedly I just changed my pronouns to Bum/Hobo and it worked out fine.
Good luck. You’re already using contacts, which is always so recommended. And proactive is smart.
Good luck! Good idea to get proficient in python as well?
Good luck and try to find a new job before you get laid off.
A younger and a very capable worker, we know didn’t do that and quit between this Christmas and New Years using some vacation days.
He started looking for a job the second week in January, and people, who seemed interested in hiring him before are not that enthused now.
It could just be the Covid/Biden economy negative.
However, a friend in the same field told him that his quitting before he had a job was not a good thing.
Best of luck in finding a good job!
Sorry to hear this Laz, keep your head up.
Not sure of your salary expectations, but with those skills, you should be able to get a job with the Army/DoD... we do a lot of development in .NET and SQL; check USAJOBS. The hiring process is a pain (goes through a centralized bureaucracy to minimize manager influence), and you do need to be eligible for a clearance (REALLY not hard these days), but if you stick it out with your experience you should be able to find a ~GS 12/13 level ($100k) position. If you are looking for more than that, try Booze-Allen Hamilton, they contract top talent out to DoD that we can’t pay for a government/military employee.
Where are you located?