The club gets ever larger

I've known this day would come eventually, just like it will eventually come for all but the luckiest few who are left whenever journalism figures out in what form it will reinvent itself, but I was one of 30 people let go today in my shop.
I don't know whether knowing the news would come eventually made it easier or not, because I have no idea how I would have reacted if the news was a shock, but it sucks anyway.
I've been in and out of the business four times, but I always came back because everything else I ever did was just a job that I went to every day, but every story I ever wrote was a piece of who I am.
I don't know where I go from here, but I can say that to whomever said getting laid off was liberating to them, I am profoundly jealous. It's anything but that for me.

 

That sucks. Good luck.

What chain did you work for?

 

Good luck.

 

Gannett.

 

I'm very sorry. If it's any comfort, after four years since being laid off I still miss newspaper work very much, but I don't miss it as often as I used to.

 

A wrenching experience. Hope you get something better, soon.

 

best of luck

 

A lot of people say this, but for me it was true a few years ago -- sometimes getting laid off is the best thing for you because it kicks you in another direction. You just don't thank the kicker at the time.

 

I say don't thank the kicker ever. They kick you without any intention that it will be a "good thing" for you. If you make it work in your favor over time, it has nothing to do with their decision to kick you.

F--- them forever, regardless of how well you do from that point forward.

 

Sorry to hear it, VC. Good luck.

 

hang in there

better days ahead for you