The wave of layoffs in the past few months have many asking what life after tech looks like.
For eight years, Ruben Villa of Gilroy spent most of his time at Google working as a visual designer.
Then came the January morning when he suddenly couldn’t log on to his employee account.
Even as he was trying to figure out what was happening, the condolences began arriving
“Getting text messages even saying, ‘hey sorry about the news. I’m so sorry.’ I was confused. I thought I had died,” he laughed.
That’s how he discovered he’d been laid off. He became one of tens of thousands of techies suddenly out