And, dubious proposition. For myself... I quit my GOOG job a year ago, and I certainly felt this was through 2022, and pursued contracting and freelance and startups and open source stuff and enjoyed the freedom. But once layoffs really started to heat up through the summer, I started to feel the push to finding a "stable" fulltime job, found one, and am more than happy to be employed securely, given the market. Especially after yesterday when 150+ of my fellow Canadian ex-Googlers were dumped onto the job market.
A fulltime job right now is golden. More and more people are going to feel this way as things become unstable. With thousands of very qualified recently laid-off people dumped onto the market, compensation rates are going to fall, interviewing is going to get tougher, work more stressful, etc. Competition for consulting gigs will also get difficult.