When was that ... last year. You DON"T have the life experience to have put a lifetime into a career and then after 25 years+ have to start over ...
Not refering to you BUT some other person was saying pretty close to the same thing you did ... Duh I gotta job ... I bake cakes you should try that.
First of all ... who said I didn't ... Second ... people laid off in high tech have MANY years invested in education and in their careers, they are NOT just going to drop all of that at the first sign of trouble. By time they had realized that high tech was NOT rebounding like it always did before ... it was too late. They had lost most, if not all of their saving trying to hold on.
BTW ... throw away jobs don't count because the laid off high tech worker is NOT eligible for them. I know cause I tried
Most importantly you didn't waste your time standing on an intersection for 3 months in the freezing cold.
Like many families we have had our ups and downs. During the downs hubby delivered pizzas and I worked banquets for tips and cut back to bare necessities. During the ups we never overspent and never ever took the future for granted.