The Google layoffs remind me: When I considered starting my first company I worried about "job security".

My then-girlfriend said:

"Big companies do not provide job security. They provide the service that you are the last person to know when the job is gone."

Wisdom.

@HalvarFlake worked for myself for almost my entire career. I never spent one minute wondering whether I would be fired. Spent many days worried about and working on sales and cash flow - but those were all problems that I had the personal and immediate ability to effect and solve.