You know it’s a bad time to be in the print journalism industry … when at 10:45 p.m. EST you have to wait five minutes to get Poynter/Romenesko to load on the computer.

And, more specific to the disaster of Tuesday and Wednesday … the Gannett blog  won’t load at all. I gave up on it after five minutes. The site probably is overwhelmed by Gannett people and industry insiders trying to find out what is going on.

That’s because thousands of Gannett employees are being fired today. I worked for Gannett for 23 years, and I’m certain I know some people who have become ex-journalists in the last 24 hours.

My condolences to everyone put on the street. I know most of you liked your jobs, and probably loved them. Whether you were a reporter or an editor — or worked somewhere else at the newspaper.

This will work out. You may have financial worries for a time, maybe a long time, but there will come a day six months or a year from now when you realize it was time to swim away from a foundering industry. OK, maybe you were tossed overboard, but you have a chance to survive, bobbing alone in the ocean, rather than lashed to the oars of something that will sink later on, when the job market will be no better — and possibly worse.

Sometimes, it’s just time to get on with your lives. Reconsider your options before even more people are thrown onto the job market.

Hang in there. It will be all right.