How A Salary Messed With My Mind—Two Realizations After a Layoff

from blog Just Some Code, | ↗ original
“Wait, I’m not working anymore.” Being laid off feels weird. Moments of relief followed by a “What am I going to do now?” Some days after being laid off last January, something weird happened. I didn’t realize I had ingrained this “habit.” Midway through rushing to my laptop to reply to my Teams messages, I suddenly stopped my short commute from...