As you may have heard, Wall Street is set to layoff a whole lot of financial services employees before the year is over. Last month the figure was pegged at around 100,000, although it got cranked up a notch on Friday when Bank of America said in September, it plans to tell 10,000 employees to pack up their shit and mosey on out. There’s a lot of fear, there’s a lot of panic, there’s a lot of “what am I going to do” going on. Well maybe what you should do is count your blessings. Count your blessings that you’re only potentially getting laid off, not being thrown in a dumpster and left for dead. Continue reading »