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To companies, anyone is replaceable. Yes, even the CEO...for public companies, at least. The CEO may not be their first target, but being in a C-suite is not a guarantee of keeping a job.

If you have a combination niche and in-demand skills, then to you, sources of paychecks (companies) are replaceable.

Don't be complacent, believing that you'll never be laid off. But also don't succumb to hustle-and-grind culture thinking that if you show enough hustle, you'll always be safe. The point isn't to be 'safe'. The point is to always have options.

(No, I did not get laid off. There was a recent layoff-wave in the company that I'm currently at, and they wiped out their DEI team - big fucking surprise - but no one on our team, or the team that my team is a part of, was laid off.)

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