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Re:U.S. job openings post biggest drop in more than four years by UncleOxidant on Friday January 17, 2020 @01:06PM (#22077346)
I feel like in the dot-com crash it was technologists who got hit the worst. Most other industries were unscathed, or very little scathed for a short time. But in tech it was like winter for about 3 years.
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Re:U.S. job openings post biggest drop in more than four years by shams93 on Friday January 17, 2020 @01:10PM (#22077381)
Yeah it was brutal I managed to scrape by doing short term contracts but it was some deep poverty and on top of it my options in Yahoo were upside down so I had not only poverty but a relentless IRS pursuing me for whatever they could for 10 years after dot bomb.
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