Finding Opportunity in Collapse: Arcana Labs from Unemployment

As a general rule, I don’t talk much about my professional life on this blog - working in tech means the vast majority of what I do on a daily basis is wrapped up in enough layers of NDAs, Information Security Policies, and international regulatory language that even a lawyer would struggle to find the safe footing, and I have no delusions of being a lawyer. Today though, I’m going to break with that tradition in order to make a somewhat sad announcement. Yesterday, I was let go from a new position I had taken in the the spring without notice and without cause. Understandably, I’ve found this sudden change of my employment status, daily schedule, and immediate-term outlook disorienting, concerning, and to be frank, a little bit terrifying. We’re sitting on top of one of the worst job markets of my lifetime, at a time when almost every industry I have inroads into is turning away from fair pay for fair work and toward slop engine operation. It’s scary. But it’s not the end of the…