I got laid off on Friday the 13th—and had to move back home. My new side hustle is writing obituaries for $200

I got laid off on Friday the 13th—and had to move back home. My new side hustle is writing obituaries for $200

On Friday the 13th this past March, I was laid off from my full-time associate editor job at a Manhattan-based trade publication. I wasn’t surprised, but I was scared.

After getting off the video call with my boss, I received the official termination letter. “Please see attached,” the email read. “Wishing you only good fortune.”

“It happened,” I sheepishly told my mom over the phone later that…

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