Yeah, well, it was worth being scared of.
I got laid off.
Let me start by saying that if you hug me, I will kill you. While the mere act of killing may make me happy, consider if you are willing to make that sort of sacrifice for our friendship.
The industry I worked in got pinched really hard recently, and although they've been playing it close to the chest internally even the news-avoidant me saw the doom-auguring articles in the papers. They laid a roomful of folks off at the same time, including one other guy from my department. Some very high-ranking guys have gone too, in the same initiative.
Mostly random they say. Makes sense--less money for projects, need fewer project managers. And my boss says she just found out a few hours before I did.
So...there's that.
I have a few month's worth of money to cushion me.
I just don't want to spend it.
Recruiter was the first call I made--who knows what will happen. Thing look better in IT than they did in the industry in which I was working, if that makes sense. Horizontal vs. vertical.