[gabmartini]

This is true. Employment for a lifetime is a thing of another historical moment. Now it's all temporary, you don't work your whole life in a company nor they assure you a job until you retire. So, in a way, you have to understand that you are disposable to the corporate machinery.

Also, this is terrible, I know, I don't like it either but it's the current instituional arrangement where we live. Still, being layoff is a burden because it shock your core values and make you doubt of your true self and worth. Some people can't get pass it.

[citizenkeen]

If you value the opportunity to be a "company man", you can still do that, even as a software engineer. It just requires a shift in priorities. Those jobs absolutely exist.

[frognumber]

They're good places to be. You get paid less, but we're social creatures. Stability and relationships matter more than $$$.

[slekker]

Banks for example?

[tomnipotent]

> Employment for a lifetime is a thing of another historical moment

Not sure such moment has ever existed. If employment was lifetime, it was either slavery or exploitation of a workforce that lacked mobility. There was maybe a generation of baby boomers that got lucky with a generation of companies that grew up with them and is still paying for their pensions, but otherwise history is not kind to workers.