What if your desk job disappeared overnight? That's the unfortunate reality many have faced this month, with October layoffs being the worst in 22 years (source). This concept of doing what we were told would be good for us and getting burned has been on my mind quite a bit. Remember, learn to code? How's that working out? Remember mom and dad saying, go to college, get a good job, you'll do alright Take my own example: get a degree > get a good job > invest for retirement. OK, that worked for 1