I was laid off at a large electronics box store as a business systems admin after they closed 26 stores in Canada (guess who!) in 2013. I got another job for nearly double the salary afterwards so it was really good for me.
I started as a junior web dev at the new place so I learned web dev on the job instead of using the C# applications skills I had learned at my previous position and after a year have moved up to web developer with my new skills. Luckily the SQL, version control and OOP skills don't really change and after dealing with a multinational's database system I could rock the SQL pretty hard.
The drop in title was a bit of a kick in the pants but that's just superficial anyway. Everything else about the job was awesome -- and still is.
I took a week for myself to gather my thoughts and really think about what I wanted in life because I wasn't happy. Once I knew what I wanted it was easy as long as I didn't stop trying. This I think was the most important part of making the lay-off a success in the grand scheme of things.
Before getting the new job I had to go through a few months of EI and waiting patiently for the right fit. I got laid off at the same time as hundreds of EA and Microsoft workers with far more experience than I had at the time so finding a job was hard. I only had 1 year of industry exp before being laid off.
I started as a junior web dev at the new place so I learned web dev on the job instead of using the C# applications skills I had learned at my previous position and after a year have moved up to web developer with my new skills. Luckily the SQL, version control and OOP skills don't really change and after dealing with a multinational's database system I could rock the SQL pretty hard.
The drop in title was a bit of a kick in the pants but that's just superficial anyway. Everything else about the job was awesome -- and still is.
I took a week for myself to gather my thoughts and really think about what I wanted in life because I wasn't happy. Once I knew what I wanted it was easy as long as I didn't stop trying. This I think was the most important part of making the lay-off a success in the grand scheme of things.
Before getting the new job I had to go through a few months of EI and waiting patiently for the right fit. I got laid off at the same time as hundreds of EA and Microsoft workers with far more experience than I had at the time so finding a job was hard. I only had 1 year of industry exp before being laid off.