2022 saw mass layoffs in tech companies of all sizes, and 2023 isn’t looking so stable. Searching for a job can be an intensely stressful process, especially if you just lost yours, and especially if every few weeks there’s a high-profile news story about several thousand more people suddenly looking for software engineering jobs too.

But this talk isn’t just about job searching. We’ll talk about setting healthy boundaries and goals, taking care of ourselves, and ultimately acknowledging that getting laid off is not a simple problem that can be solved by simply figuring out a solution that runs in O(n)