After I finally left Wal-mart for a better job, I suffered a devastating lay off in the middle of the recession, and was unemployed for nearly 6 months. 

I started my investing career working full time after a layoff of most of 2010. 

Completely jam packed then one day parking lot was near empty-a major layoff. 

They said there're lot of layoffs, but all stocks are at all time high. lolIt's dystopian world.

My husband has been through 2 layoffs in the past, he has recovered well each time, but it was hard on him emotionally, and it has made me feel more risk averse. 

Well with IRS layoffs, etc big paper filings are risky. 

Adding to risk/uncertainty, just look at the mass layoffs in tech (not Apple so far, Amazon (18,000), Google (12,000)) that are mounting and expected to continue through 2023. 

Multiple jobs is a good thing.I would lay off the seminars and books.

When thing get slow between jobs you have no lay off concerns.

As of yesterday my wife and I decided since I am on a Summer layoff from my job and I have been doing this accredited online RE course to get my license to help our business (Thx to J Scott & Brandon Turner for the advice), we agreed that when I get my license we are going to use it in it's full respects since we are staying in RE the rest of our lives anyways.