conversation: User (LaidOffIn140): "I'm one of the unlucky (or lucky) engineers that got laid off from Twitter. They haven't even told us yet, but woke up to find my mail client promoting for a password. If anyone has been through this before,  especially at a tech company, would love to hear advice on how to handle the process ahead of me.\n\n\n&amp;nbsp;\n\nEDIT: Thanks for all the replies. I'll be responding to messages as I can. An incredible amount of support."
  Self: "I have worked in tech for 17 years so I went through the Tech bubble at the beginning of my career so I have definitely felt your pain.  Just be glad that the market is in great shape.\n\nOne word of caution though unless you get with another start up you probably should not expect the same degree of wow factor that you probably had with twitter.\n\nAlso whatever company you go to work for make sure that they have a viable revenue model in place or you will end back up in the same position. \n\nOne thing that you may want to consider is getting the hell out of San Francisco.  That place is stupid expensive."
  