{"id":1022327,"date":"2026-07-20T09:48:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022327"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:48:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:18:43","slug":"laid-off-after-10-years-at-paypal-man-lands-visa-job-after-final-interview-on-his-40th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/20\/laid-off-after-10-years-at-paypal-man-lands-visa-job-after-final-interview-on-his-40th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Laid off after 10 years at PayPal, man lands Visa job after final interview on his 40th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former employee at US financial technology company PayPal has shared the emotional and financial challenges he faced after being laid off and how a referral from a former colleague helped him secure a new job. John Hu\u00e2n V\u0169, now a senior consultant at Visa in San Jose, told Business Insider that he was left astonished after being laid off from PayPal in July 2024.<\/p>\n<p>V\u0169 said he initially took a week to process the lay-off before beginning an intensive job search. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former employee at US financial technology company PayPal has shared the emotional and financial challenges he faced after being laid off and how a referral from a former colleague helped him secure a new job. John Hu\u00e2n V\u0169, now a senior consultant at Visa in San Jose, told Business Insider that he was left astonished after being laid off from PayPal in July 2024. V\u0169 said he initially took a week to process the lay-off before beginning an intensive job search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022327","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022328,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022327\/revisions\/1022328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}