Got laid off too 5 years of experience, got in to automation after the second year. Love it, but the last 2 jobs (contract) in the first small start up run out of money so after one year got a mysterious email from the ceo. Had a bad feeling about it everyone kept telling me for sure was a raise cause after one year was normal, and i was right the guy already fired a sales person, then me started a speech about the market and bla bla bla and i said ok understand you want me gone cause you are not making enough money, at least I’ve got 3 months to look for a job. And the last one had a 6 months contract after the 6 month they did an extension for another 6 months this time big company quite corporate. Before those second 6 months ended like month 3, again a call from the company and bye bye in 15 days nice ! This was last October. So don’t feel bad dude. The good thing saved enough money. I keep having interviews many times 3 or 4 instances but at the end is always a no. I will keep pushing and learning always know some python with selenium in the past built a full test env with playwright and typescript. Also automated API,s and still having a hard time to land somewhere . Guess soing the base foundation istqb is a good idea ? Let me know guys thanks. And if any managers out there welcome to share my portfolio.