Just looking for advice, I just got laid off of my job o two years. Before that I had a series of jobs with the same companies for about ten years. I feel like a failure and am just wondering how other people process something like this.

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Companies' decisions to hire and fire people are not personal, they're just business. They need X number of workers for a set of tasks, they hire them. They no longer need that many, they fire them. It's a purely economic decision. Talent and experience are not even much of a factor.

Don't blame yourself. Don't take it as a measure of personal worth. We're all kind of at the mercy of the market for our labor.

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