Once in a blue moon I will judge others, but I have a few Ph.D. degrees in judging myself. :-) It took me over a year to get past not being able to say I worked as a firmware engineer; I hadn't realized just how much of my identity I had wrapped up in that title until I lost the job. Now I can honestly say I am to the point where I care very little. I can't say I don't care, but I am able to balance out caring what others (i.e. my former engineering coworkers, particularly the ones who were actively involved in pushing me out of the job) would think with how much happier I am with my life, now).