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by was_boring 2439 days ago
I wasn't laid off, but I have been fired before. It was the best thing to ever happen to me -- I got time to work on my passion, programming, broke into the industry and got out of a job I knew I hated a month in. It lead me down a path were I got to work for companies on the global 500, and fortune 100 list, as well as a ycombinator startup.

That said, not everyone is so lucky and I definitely struggled during the unemployment phase.