Not laid off but I quit my job 7 months ago to start my own company. Just the admin of setting up and running the day-to-day has taught me a lot. But the bigg

Not laid off but I quit my job 7 months ago to start my own company. Just the admin of setting up and running the day-to-day has taught me a lot. But the biggest lesson I learned is that I have the capacity to research and implement technologies new to me in relatively short amounts of time to make meaningful impact. In addition, my confidence has improved and I am more likely to accept challenging work within my domain than ever before. What I am doing running a small business is not cool in the context of the OP and the discussion, but it's cool to me in the sense that I did something I once feared and stuck with it. Thanks for sharing, everyone. Really cool projects. Take care.