One week isn’t much time. Take some time to recover, but from my experience that recovery can become self-reincorcing isolation, so you’ll have to get out there eventually. For now, file for unemployment, figure out health care if needed, and get contact info for people you want to keep contact with. Unemployment sucks hard enough, best to focus on recovery for a bit

You’re probably pretty good! If you’re looking for some guides and perspective, check out matt colville’s running the game series on youtube

Our biweekly game that I DM became monthly and then just sort of stopped last year. It felt like folks had other priorities and I took it a bit harder than I should’ve. It’s crazy how much time and thought you can put into a homebrew campaign that centers players’ stories

Simplistic answer is that equity holders sold and turned some of their equity into cash.

Slightly more nuanced answer is that when people tried to sell, they couldn’t get as much as they wanted (paper value of the equity) so accepted a lower price.

Eli5: I have two gumballs that I paid $10 each for. They’re “worth” $20 combined. I go to sell one but no one will give me $10, i have to accept $6 instead. Now that’s the “worth” of each gumball. Two gumballs now are $12. Price discovery means that all gumballs lost 40% of value™

What kind of job? H? Z? B?

Maybe dumb question: are there loose trade groups that could share advertising / business digging? Or are you basically in competition with everyone else in your field?

Maybe change careers? My job will end soon and I’m looking for something more stable and values-aligned rather than exciting. I figure people need houses -Any structural engineers want to chime in on how to get into that work late?