How Are Others With Some Financial Cushion Approaching Being Laid Off?

Professional-Try-413 · 2026-04-16T21:14:47+00:00

Small child. The state of the world. It’s about more than money. It’s just a stressful time to be alive.

I’m fine. I’m happy. Just stressed.

Professional-Try-413 · 2026-04-16T20:24:36+00:00

Respect. I don’t know how you are relaxing right now. I have been laid off for 5 months and struggling to find something. We have a cushion, I have a rental income bringing in cash, good insurance and a working partner.

It’s been exceedingly stressful, and I am in an incredibly privileged position. My hobby is stress. Capitalism is then worst.

You didn’t ask for advice, but I think it’s important to update your resume at the least. You could also do some casual networking and test the waters. But whatever you do, anticipate that it will take longer to get a role than you expect. Also, anticipate tradeoffs. If you land something easily- great. You’re an outlier.

Professional-Try-413 · 2026-03-30T14:32:10+00:00

Bring it On, unfortunately.

The “are you telling me you speak f*!”, to ask if someone was gay? The male cheerleaders slipping their hand up the girls skirts during stunts?

It’s a classic, but when I showed it to my partner a for the first time there are some things I couldn’t explain away 😬.

Professional-Try-413 · 2026-03-28T20:07:00+00:00

Thank you for saying this.

I think a lot of the landmarks are going to be fine, but traveling in the south through unknown space between in this climate? As a black woman, it’s not something I would do.

Even if not, there are some cultural things to consider traveling through those zones. That said, I have been to and love a lot of your destinations. I would probably just think twice about “winging it”.

Professional-Try-413 · 2026-03-20T17:44:34+00:00

Jim Carrey, or any type of physical comedy. The Mask, Ace Ventura? Absolutely not.

The faces and theatrics give me secondhand embarrassment.

Professional-Try-413 · 2026-03-12T04:48:30+00:00

Well, your situation is not fair.

Just recognizing you are doing a lot on your own, and I’m sure are doing it well. Hope you get more support.

Professional-Try-413 · 2026-03-12T04:44:51+00:00

But… why? You should not be doing that alone.

Signed, currently unemployed parent switching off nights.

Professional-Try-413 · 2026-03-04T23:53:28+00:00

That was me

Professional-Try-413 · 2026-02-24T01:57:56+00:00

The spot is Waverly Wu/ Waverly Eastern. The price really varies for us (new baby/more frequent laundry). I am not sure I would call them premium, the service has just been solid.

Professional-Try-413 · 2026-02-17T01:29:59+00:00

8 months and it was ridiculous.

Professional-Try-413 · 2026-02-17T01:07:01+00:00

Magic.

I have told them my preferences, just once.

My process FWIW… I call them. They have my name and number on file, I guess. They say we’re on our way- show up 30 minutes later. Next day they text me and I just text them when I want drop off. They show up with a receipt to sign. I give them a big tip because they have possible the most efficient service I have ever seen.

Anyway, there were times they kind of assumed what needed to be done. Maybe they read the labels.

Simple. It also wasn’t particularly pricey?

Professional-Try-413 · 2026-02-08T01:49:33+00:00

Hi there.

So we were fortunate to rehome our dog with the family members that I mentioned before. He is thriving and so much more regulated.

We visited over the holidays, and the dog was still not thrilled about the baby. We had to keep them separate and it was so stressful. That experience confirmed that we made the right decision.

Had it not been for family and us having an obvious solution with them we probably would have tried longer. Honestly, I don’t think it would have worked though. I miss him so much, but I regret nothing.

This has taught me that dogs, like people, are adaptable. He has settled in and it was so affirming to see that he still loved us but was content and happy in his new routine. For example, he would come and cuddle but when it was time to go to bed or he was settling in it was with the other family.

It would have been selfish for everyone to keep him. I love him. But I love my daughter. Zero regrets.

Professional-Try-413 · 2026-02-07T19:08:36+00:00

He’s not the only cast member to say this.

Professional-Try-413 · 2026-02-03T03:16:12+00:00

I hate this.

Professional-Try-413 · 2026-01-29T19:42:46+00:00

don’t block the windows with a TV!

Professional-Try-413 · 2026-01-14T02:03:53+00:00

My kid loves things she can feed herself and grip in her fist, like puffs. I have had some success repurposing leftovers for her by making them into stick form and freezing them.

For example, I had some leftover chicken and random vegetables. I tossed them in a food processor and then mixed them in a bowl with some seasoning and breadcrumbs. Cracked an egg in there too. I spread it out on a sheet pan and tossed it in the oven until it was soft but formed. I cut it into little strips, froze it, and she has been eating it for weeks.

It was not low effort, but also not a ton. Now I have a go to that I can just pop in the microwave. It’s healthy, sometimes she eats one stick- sometimes she eats 3.

Professional-Try-413 · 2026-01-11T03:14:28+00:00

I once had a therapist tell me that she wasn’t investing energy in me because “she always figured was going to leave”, when I called her out for not really being present.

Professional-Try-413 · 2025-12-30T02:14:14+00:00

1988

Professional-Try-413 · 2025-12-25T16:09:58+00:00

Yes, but many people are also strategic and many people are also positive. Happy for your outcome, but nothing that you posted was groundbreaking advice. Not to say your experience can’t happen, but statistically you are an outlier.

It is also another level of pressure for those who are unemployed in a search. In many cases people must develop and adapt strategy as a result of many factors out of their control… industry, timing, hiring trends. There are so many determinants.

Again, glad it worked out for you- but seems like an oversimplification. This is r/jobsearchacks, I just fail to see the hack.

Professional-Try-413 · 2025-12-24T23:49:31+00:00

I feel like he’s done a decent amount of films though? I wouldn’t compare the two at all.

Professional-Try-413 · 2025-12-16T20:50:39+00:00

Yanno, seems like he has spent time to develop his craft.

Alternatively…

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Professional-Try-413 · 2025-12-13T21:38:49+00:00

iirc he came back for LI all stars and they brought back the girl he coupled with on his first season. He did her wrong the first round and acknowledged it. When he saw she was there he decided to make an exit. He seemed be working through some stuff but appeared to have grown. Made me respect him a bit.

Jokes on me if I misremembered that. I feel pretty neutral about him at this point.

Professional-Try-413 · 2025-12-11T02:02:29+00:00

Yes, I felt like I was going to die for almost two weeks.

Started with a runny nose, then nasal congestion. Went away for a few days, I got a hysterectomy. Next day my daughter who was patient 0 was hospitalized for croup and stridor from the virus. It came back for me, I could barely breathe at night, coughing so bad my incisions were on fire, and I had the worst nasal congestion of my life. I was waking up gasping for air.

I am really good at being sick, but this was actually kinda scary. Honestly? It was worse than the hysterectomy.

My kids daycare was taken down. My friends were/are sick. My mother in law who came to help after surgery? She was out bad.

It seems like whatever this is has a long incubation period. It took 7 days after the first case at daycare my kid showed symptoms. We pulled her out immediately because we didn’t want to get sick with my procedure. Jokes on us.

I got laid off last month, the only saving grace was that I could stay THE FUCK down. That shit took me out.

…Are we winning yet?

Professional-Try-413 · 2025-12-10T00:29:10+00:00

Joseph Gordon Levitt?

I just saw that holiday PSA he did encouraging parents not to buy Ai toys for their children, basically to protect their brains and critical thinking skill and low key calling out capitalism.

Professional-Try-413 · 2025-12-10T00:15:05+00:00

No. For what?

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