[ArcMex]

Not laid off but I quit my job 7 months ago to start my own company.

Just the admin of setting up and running the day-to-day has taught me a lot.

But the biggest lesson I learned is that I have the capacity to research and implement technologies new to me in relatively short amounts of time to make meaningful impact.

In addition, my confidence has improved and I am more likely to accept challenging work within my domain than ever before.

What I am doing running a small business is not cool in the context of the OP and the discussion, but it's cool to me in the sense that I did something I once feared and stuck with it.

Thanks for sharing, everyone. Really cool projects. Take care.

[BuckyBeaver]

I think that's worth a lot. Sometimes I worry that I'm just not fast enough at some of this stuff, but then I pull off something well under pressure and feel better.

Temporarily!