It certainly feels that way. I was there. Fortunately had just waltzed into the tech side of things and scurried off back to my professional career for a couple of years.
I watched a lot of stuff burn. It was horrifying. We are nearly there again.
Yeah similar story here. I had to spend a couple of years painting houses before the local market recovered enough that tech jobs were a thing again. Shit was surreal. There was one guy I knew that went from building multi-million dollar server and networking projects for IBM to literally working as unskilled labor on a fencing crew just to make rent.
"Galactic scale" and "Fuck Up" are on brand for IBM.
It is IBM after all
Totally fair point.
dotcom implosion redux
It certainly feels that way. I was there. Fortunately had just waltzed into the tech side of things and scurried off back to my professional career for a couple of years.
I watched a lot of stuff burn. It was horrifying. We are nearly there again.
Yeah similar story here. I had to spend a couple of years painting houses before the local market recovered enough that tech jobs were a thing again. Shit was surreal. There was one guy I knew that went from building multi-million dollar server and networking projects for IBM to literally working as unskilled labor on a fencing crew just to make rent.
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For a time, there was a lot of good deals on nice used office furniture.
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