Brinton Taylor has been laid off before a couple of years ago and it didn't feel good.

I think it always, you know, confuses you.

You wonder what you could have done more and I don't know anyone that hasn't kind of

taken that a bit personal.

He and his wife have two young kids.

He is the only source of income for the family.

Every day while I was laid off felt like a race.

Like there was a clock running and I had to optimize every second of it.

I just like couldn't let myself rest and so I would say the other emotion that's very

strong is just exhaustion, right?

It took a year for Taylor to find a new job.

Now he does product marketing for a cybersecurity company and he has been watching recent headlines

with some trepidation.

News overnight about more layoffs at Amazon.

Microsoft is the latest major tech giant Google has announced it is cutting 12,000 jobs

across the company.

He feels pretty optimistic that he will be okay.

Even struggling companies can't just stop protecting their networks from hackers.

Cybersecurity space is a very strong space where it's not an option in our industry to not

spend.

But Taylor knows economists are predicting a recession and he remembers what that layoff

felt like.

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