luckily, hopefully i'm safe. i think. for now. all caveats apply. but i've been seeing people at various points in their career (a few years in, a decade+ in) caught up by this, and i just...it sucks. i know people are stressed, scared, wondering how they're going to pay the bills. applying for everything. & radio static in return.
generally: working is awful. gotta work to live. yet every job feels so precarious, your existence at the whim of some number at the end of a budgetary line. years to go until i'm done, & hope nothing takes me down before then. what a life. what a world.