[gregjor]

Not in danger now, but have got laid off in the past.

- Make yourself as valuable as possible at your current job. Solve business problems and raise your profile so your managers and other managers see you as too important to lay off.

- Start making as many new professional friends/contacts as you can. If you do get laid off you want to have plenty of people to call who can give you leads and inside tracks.

- Look into freelancing.

The last time I worked for a company that started laying people off I volunteered to work on some key projects outside of my team, including stuff no one else wanted to do. I kept in touch with people I had worked with at previous jobs, and then people laid off from the current employer because they went out looking for jobs. And I started taking on freelance work.