.. Well, i wasn't. But the hammer came down today and a few people got laid off in a "restructuring". One of the people was a pretty good friend and we had a pretty dark conversation. He was totally blind-sided by it and kept telling me how he didn't know what he was going to do. He was particularly worried about money and expressed that him and his wife (with a new baby) only had "a month or two at best". He was near tears. Got to say, that kind of blew me away because our incomes have to be pretty similar. Still I felt bad for him. I didn't try to sugercoat things, but did try to get him to see the potential opportunities it raises. But he kept going back to the lack of income.
At the same time we were having this conversation, I couldn't help thinking about how much of a life transformation i've been through the last year, or since I found MMM and this community. In that time we've drastically cut expenses, increased my savings rate, and am happier now because of it. I can honestly say that if I had been axed today, I would have been dissapointed sure, but it certainly would not be an emergency. I now have a pretty nice cushion to fall back on, and would have plenty of time to figure out my next step. Hell, i might even take a month or two off.
I'm also not particularly enamored with my job, so it might even serve as a mixed blessing, forcing me to re-evaluate and get into something that I might find more fulfilling. These feelings I'd imagine I would have, couldn't have been different from the doom my friend was feeling today.
Anyway- my mustachian batteries have been re-charged so to speak, and I'm only more motivated to keep on saving and not be at the mercy of whatever corporate whim might come down the pipe. I think i'm going to do challenge myself to ratchet up the savings rate a few notches in May.