If you noticed a massive, echoing gap in time between my last post and this one, congratulations\u2014you have excellent situational awareness. If you didn\u2019t notice, let\u2019s just pretend I was on a highly exclusive, top-secret spiritual retreat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The truth is a lot more corporate: The remote life got a little too<\/em> real, my company “restructured,” and I got laid off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Turns out, the ultimate work-from-home hack is not losing the home office entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When it happened, I went through the full, textbook emotional cycle of job loss. First came the denial (coupled with an impressive amount of daytime television), followed by a heavy dose of funk and depression. It turns out that when your identity is tied to being a productive professional, suddenly having a completely blank calendar throws you for a loop. I spent a good chunk of time just trying to get my feet back under me and figure out which way was up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But a lazy worker never truly quits\u2014they just optimize the recovery time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It took some serious effort to get back in the saddle, update the resume, and brave the wild world of interviewing again. The market is a jungle out there, but I had one absolute, non-negotiable rule: I was keeping my almost 100% work-from-home capacity. I am far too attached to my plush slippers to give them up now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The good news? I landed the new 9-5. The routine is back, the paycheck is flowing, and my desk corner is officially operational again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now that the dust has settled and my brain has successfully rebooted, I wanted to get right back to working on this blog. We\u2019ve got a lot of catching up to do\u2014including some fresh, hard-earned wisdom on surviving a layoff, navigating the job hunt without losing your mind, and balancing the books when life throws you a curveball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks for hanging out. Pull up a chair, and let’s get back to business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you noticed a massive, echoing gap in time between my last post and this one, congratulations\u2014you have excellent situational awareness. If you didn\u2019t notice, let\u2019s just pretend I was on a highly exclusive, top-secret spiritual retreat. The truth is a lot more corporate: The remote life got a little too real, my company “restructured,”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelazylaptop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelazylaptop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelazylaptop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelazylaptop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelazylaptop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelazylaptop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/thelazylaptop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelazylaptop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelazylaptop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelazylaptop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}