I just sent this to a journalist who's doing a story on recently laid off IT workers.

I'm surprisingly upbeat about the whole thing really. However, that could also be a circumstance of my employment conditions. First I feel it's important to designate what area of …

It's funny when I stop to think about our collective circumstance. If you've yet to feel the pinch of the economic contraction happening on a global scale, all I can offer is "be prepared". My old scout motto finds me well worn. I lost my job today.

I've written before …