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Re:The Falling-Down Professions by timr on Sunday January 06, 2008 @03:04PM (#95402)
As were half of the people I met in grad school. That's how I know. ;-)
Re:The Falling-Down Professions by aswanson on Sunday January 06, 2008 @04:38PM (#95426)
Good. At least enlightened youth such as yourself can look at our negative example and say "That will not be me."
Re:The Falling-Down Professions by timr on Sunday January 06, 2008 @06:08PM (#95451)
I'm also a 30-something. It would have been clearer to say that I met a lot of cynical 20-somethings in grad school, who are now cynical 30-somethings.

More than one friend is a veteran of the first boom, with little to show for it.

Re:The Falling-Down Professions by aswanson on Sunday January 06, 2008 @07:56PM (#95481)
Hey, at least they tried. I dismissed the first wave as a fad and didn't pay any attention to it. For the most part it was a fad, but there were opportunities...