On Being Laid Off in the 2001 Dot-Com Bust, Crying at Work, and Navigating Back From A Crisis of Confidence. — By Marissa Maciel Two years after I graduated college I landed my first “real job,” with health benefits and a 401K program. I was hired as an entry-level recruiter for a tech startup, joining a department filled with fairly young, recent college grads. My boss was the same age as…