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The feeling of being fired has happened two times, only one with the "you're fired" notice.

The first time was a due to problems with my boss. Never related to my job performance. Neither with attitude, we still like each other. But payments didn't came on time and, being the main developer (with only 6 hours/day) I started asking for a bigger share (responsibilities and money). I started giving more opinions and trying to have more authority over other jr developers. Funny thing was that he took me to a enterprise training (the motivational type) training us (the boss and me) to have mission, vision, etc; and the Guru advice him against me (this was a confession of my former boss), he told him something like: "be careful with this guy, he likes to trouble the trouble".

How he "made me" quit was very particular: I was going to be able to work 9 hours per day, so he drop it straight to me: what are you going to do with your free time? (...)

I moved to another company for twice the salary. Didn't feel completely good, I'm still having the feeling that I lose something there. He still is the boss and hire a ton of juniors only.

The second time (the "you're fired" one) was at an outsourcing company. First, they said, it was due to a regular cut on the budget, actually true, but I knew they could keep me anyway so I insisted; so they told me about performance issues.

It was a period (about three months) where I used to work toooo much overtime to learn really simple things (front end, angular, etc) but It was funny (weird funny) that we had all this agile meetings with retrospectives and such and I never felt like I was going to be fired. You know, the confidence of exceeding at some task and being delayed with some others. Here I didn't felt really bad, still sometimes I feel like I should try to work at the same place as a challenge.