Jejenn's Blog

It has been a crazy rollercoaster feeling! 😧 Starting with my wonderful birthday (yay to live for another year!), lots of design mentoring & partnership requests, I thought September was a delightful yet productive month for me. However, I couldn't imagine that I would got hit by layoff in my current company. Sucks, yeah. It was very sudden and I couldn't prepare for it. Now it has almost been a month of job-searching task and full of self reflections. Am I sad? Yeah, of course. I have seen waves of layoff in my previous companies too, but I didn't expect I would be impacted myself this time. And I can really assure you, no, it is not always because of the employee's performance. The industry has been hard, and companies are struggling for sustainability.  Cutting the chit-chat, so what I feel I learnt from this experience: 😉 1. To never settle with my comfort zone : There are things beyond my control, and it is always nice if I have backup plans. Luckily I had ta