@morbiuswilters said:
@vyznev said:
Or, I suppose, he just might've been one of those fortunate folks with a modest lifestyle, few financial commitments and enough savings and marketable skills that he didn't consider an open-ended period of unemployment to be such a horrible risk after all, even in the current economic situation.Honestly, it's not even the risk of not finding a job, it's the annoyance of not making as much money as you could be plus the tedium of unemployment.
I had a job I had to get out of before a fileserver crashed. My efforts at replacing it had failed, as the Director of IT of that place was such a... interesting person. But if it crashed, I'd be the one responsible for damage control.
As soon as I realized how fragile the situation was, I hightailed it to a low-paying (but bill-paying) contract position at MS, doing Xbox 360 game testing. It actually turned out to be really good for me.