Re:Ask HN: Folks who were around the 2008 Recession
by hammyhavoc on Thursday August 11, 2022 @01:29PM
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When I started reading this, I wanted to reach out and ask if you're OK now mentally, then I got to the end, and well—my heart goes out to you mate.
Wishing you happiness, health and peace from Liverpool.
Anyway I believe late 20's/early 30's is the worst age to deal with a recession, specially if you happen to work in field correlated to economic growth (like architecture). At that time I lost everything (job, investments, fiancée, expat lifestyle and probably mental health). Were I older and more "established" (or younger and less accountable) everything could have been different. I didn't fully recover from that time yet. Most of my peers didn't too. Most likely we never will.