Laid off a week ago, am I screwed?
I've been in the business for a couple of years now, and my latest job was a big upgrade. I learned a ton, and I was doing pretty damn well for myself, but I ended up getting laid off through unfortunate circumstances.
I was only able to work there for 9-ish months, and it's just now hitting me how fucked I feel. I've been applying like crazy, but I'm terrified I won't get hired. I'm just constantly applying to everything I see on LinkedIn. I feel relatively experienced now, but I feel like I just lucked out and won't get another job. I absolutely loved my job, and now it's gone.
I guess I'm just posting here because I'm sad and afraid, hoping someone was in my position. It's not like I'm an elite engineer with 5+ years of experience under my belt, so I just don't feel super secure right now...
Edit: I should clarify that I feel relatively confident in my skills. I'm very skilled in Python (plus data libraries e.g. polars, duckdb, pandas) and SQL, I spent the last 9 months thrown into an Azure environment and familiarized myself a ton with cloud stuff and Synapse Analytics before migrating to Fabric. Got very comfortable with terraform, spark, and general SDLC/team stuff. I come from a more traditional developer background, so I'm familiar with version control + CI/CD. I spent most of my time optimizing queries/pipelines, debugging pipelines, and building internal tooling to help debug/prevent pipeline problems in a relatively big-data environment. In general I feel like a jack of all trades with a shallow mastery in Python/SQL. Every job posting I'm seeing feels like it's out of my league (as in I feel underqualified). Idk what the hell I should be applying for, and I can basically only do local or remote, and local options are few and far between where I live. I have no references - just work history.