you're on your own, kid

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I don’t know a single person with a media job who doesn’t wake up every day wondering if today’s the day they’re laid off. I already experienced it once, in 2014. I was 22 and working at The Village Voice, which was notoriously the type of publication where layoffs seemed to happen as often as our editorial meetings.

There’s nothing worse than being five…