Hello Reader!

We have seen big tech companies laying off their employees for the past couple of years.

You named it – Meta, Twitter, Spotify, Lyft and many more.

I can't help but empathize with all the affected workers. Times are tough. There's no telling how long this pattern will persist.

However, amidst the headlines and news articles, a memory from my own journey resurfaces.

The story of how I survived layoffs unintentionally.

This was around 2002.

I bumped into one of my directors while walking around the office.

It was just a casual chit-chat. Nothing special about it at first.

We stopped a moment after exchanging some words.

And he asked me about the work I was doing.

I said:

“I'm working on a project where I grab data from a database and programmatically stick it into an Excel file.

It's pretty cool to see my program open the Excel file and fill it with data."

I kept it short and sweet.

I didn’t use any technical words whatsoever.

Within that 30-second timeframe. Without diving into the nitty-gritty.

(This is also one of the strategies you can use when you explain something to your boss. Keep it short and simple. Make sure you explain without all those tech jargon).

Guess what? This caught his attention. And he wanted to know more.

I mentioned the specific project I was involved in and talked about creating a report in Excel.

I explained that I am working on an assignment to retrieve data from Microsoft SQL Database, import it into my C# program, open an Excel file, and use Excel VBA programming Modal to put the data in there.

This extended our chat to around three minutes.

He was really intrigued by my explanation and asked to see a demonstration.

I went back to my desk to run the program and showed off the impressive results.

Right then and there, he said, "Come with me," and took me to another manager.

He introduced me as the person who had created a program that perfectly matched their needs.

Can you imagine that? A small assignment turned out to be the very thing they sought after!

And that's how I got involved in one of the high-visibility projects we had.

This project was to build a project management application and they needed to generate weekly and monthly reports in Excel using Microsoft SQL data.

Now, here comes the most SHOCKING part.

I joined the company in April.

This conversation between my director and I happened in July. So it had been about three months since I started.

I switched from my previous project to this new one right after the conversion within a few hours!

And to add spices into this story?

The company announced layoffs after two weeks of my move to the new project.

It was during the aftermath of the dot-com bust in 2002.

I didn't get affected by the layoffs because I had moved to this new team.

But my previous team? They sadly got affected by the layoffs.

I never saw this coming. It was completely out of my expectation.

What do you think would happen if the conversation between my director and I did not happen that day?

We would never know what my destiny would be.

But what can this story help you, Reader?

I believe if there is ONE thing you can learn from this story, it would be TO ALWAYS SHARE YOUR JOURNEY AND KNOWLEDGE WITH OTHERS.

I see it time and time again.

Junior developers who share what they learned ALWAYS attract more attention from their bosses.

Your superiors can see how hard-working and resourceful you are. They will eventually want you in their team forever.

But the problem junior devs always tell me is they don’t know what to do to attract their superior’s attention to their work and gain more visibility.

And this is where I can help you.

I’ve seen every pattern of the problems.

And I can tell you one thing – It does not matter where you are. You can always start somewhere.

If you need help with finding EXACTLY what to do to become unfireable today, click the link below.

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We’ll discuss your situation at length.

That’s a wrap!

Your friend,

Vinod.