I have been let go three times in almost 30 years and I’m on my 10th job

I have been let go three times in almost 30 years and I’m on my 10th job. The first time was at a struggling startup. We all knew they were struggling and the company was very honest with us and kept us abreast of all the companies that our VC backers were pursuing. I was in some of the interviews with potential acquirers. Our backers promised all of us that “we would get paid for every hour we worked”. Of course they couldn’t promise us we would not get laid off. All of us stayed until the bitter end. That day we all got laid off after being acquired for scraps, we went to lunch together and hung out in the office just joking around until the end of the day. We all had something in our back pocket anyway and from looking at LinkedIn, everyone found a job that was either as good or better within a month. This was 2011. Our largest customer arranged for me to get contract with them to finish out a project, the acquiring company gave the customer access to all of their code and gave me permission to keep my work laptop and waived my non compete. They gave everyone a month severance. …