{"id":107749,"date":"2025-08-01T03:28:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T03:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/microsoft-laid-me-off-twice-in-6-months-heres-how-im-moving-forward-and-why-id-still-return-6\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T03:28:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T03:28:04","slug":"microsoft-laid-me-off-twice-in-6-months-heres-how-im-moving-forward-and-why-id-still-return-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/microsoft-laid-me-off-twice-in-6-months-heres-how-im-moving-forward-and-why-id-still-return-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft laid me off twice in 6 months. Here&#8217;s how I&#8217;m moving forward and why I&#8217;d still return."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Microsoft employee Patrick Lyons said a generous severance and multiple side businesses made the layoffs manageable.Photo courtesy of Patrick Lyons<br \/>\nPatrick Lyons was laid off from Microso\u2026 [+4492 ch<a href='https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/laid-off-from-microsoft-twice-in-six-months-moving-forward-2025-7' target='_blank'>read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Microsoft employee Patrick Lyons said a generous severance and multiple side businesses made the layoffs manageable.Photo courtesy of Patrick Lyons Patrick Lyons was laid off from Microso\u2026 [+4492 chread more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_views_count":["86"],"_jetpack_related_posts_cache":["a:1:{s:32:\"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb\";a:2:{s:7:\"expires\";i:1782213354;s:7:\"payload\";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:107224;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:107530;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:106302;}}}}"]},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-make-money"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}