{"id":1009325,"date":"2026-05-22T10:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009325"},"modified":"2026-05-22T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:24:00","slug":"meta-layoff-crushed-her-confidence-now-she-says-start-before-you-second-guess-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/22\/meta-layoff-crushed-her-confidence-now-she-says-start-before-you-second-guess-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta layoff crushed her confidence \u2013 now she says, \u2018start before you second-guess yourself\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Meta laid off Emily Pitcher in 2023, she felt like her world had collapsed. The 26-year-old content designer had tied much of her identity to working at a Big Tech company, and suddenly, that sense of purpose disappeared. <\/p>\n<p>The layoff initially felt like a personal failure slowly turned into something else, the beginning of a completely different career. Today, the Los Angeles-based creator is working as an indie game developer, content creator, and voice actor. She is also preparing to launch her upcoming game, \u2018Lily\u2019s World XD\u2019, with a publisher later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Meta laid off Emily Pitcher in 2023, she felt like her world had collapsed. The 26-year-old content designer had tied much of her identity to working at a Big Tech company, and suddenly, that sense of purpose disappeared. The layoff initially felt like a personal failure slowly turned into something else, the beginning of a completely different career. Today, the Los Angeles-based creator is working as an indie game developer, content creator, and voice actor. She is also preparing to launch her upcoming game, \u2018Lily\u2019s World XD\u2019, with a publisher later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009348,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009325\/revisions\/1009348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}