Back before the crash, I was working at home writing webapps in Python, JavaScript, and SQL. These days, I am still working at home....writing webapps in Python

Back before the crash, I was working at home writing webapps in Python, JavaScript, and SQL. These days, I am still working at home....writing webapps in Python, JavaScript and SQL, just on different projects. One of my friends worked at an ad agency and got a paycut. Another worked at a large corporation and absolutely nothing happened, business as usual. There is a lot of money-generating code that needs to be written and maintained independent of the stock market. Probably less VCs risking capital/less speculation for a few years though. I do remember more people being just happy to have a job vs. now where people spend most of their time talking about their stock/bonuses and whether they should quit out of boredom etc.