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The Good & Bad of Getting Laid Off

I got laid off on 11.11.2008, 1 year and 1 month after starting at this web startup in Seattle. Here are some things that I've experienced since then.

• Good: don't work in online advertising anymore
• Good: don't have to set an alarm clock anymore
• Good: got to delete 2 email accounts
• Good: no longer have 50+ trac tickets looming over me
• Good: get to hang out with my friends during the day time
• Bad: no more Mac Book Pro
• Good: still have health insurance until the end of the year
• Good: unemployment checks
• Good: return to militant unemployment (jobless bastards collective)
• Good: can stay up late / sleep in
• Good: have time to focus on my personal projects (the resistance army shirts, seattle.rb, zinedistro, listyourlist, et al)
• Good: was given an iBook and PowerBook to fill my computer needs during the transition to a new machine by two awesome friends
• Good: have time and motivation to go to the doctor for stuff, namely a vasectomy
• Bad: have to be more aware of how I spend my money