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The second time designer and illustrator Courtney Myers got laid off looked a lot like the first. Again she received a mysterious Google Meet invite over Slack. Again she was told she was let go immediately upon joining the call. And again she wasn't given a reason. But unlike the first layoff, more than six months passed between jobs. Then another six months. Finally, this past December, she bagged a new full-time gig at an events agency start-up — only after a design of hers, advertising that she was "desperate for work," went viral.

"I really thought I would find something straight away because I had all this experience, but the months dragged on," Myers, who is based in the UK, tells Popsugar. There were per

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