my biggest by far was my first job out of college. I had a lot of Linux experience and applied for a giant ISP. This was in 2001 so after the dotcom bust. I in

my biggest by far was my first job out of college. I had a lot of Linux experience and applied for a giant ISP. This was in 2001 so after the dotcom bust. I interviewed there on a Friday. The manager comes in last and tells me everyone liked me and he was going to offer me a role as a mid-level Solaris admin. I'd skip over the whole route of help desk->jr admin route and go right into a mid-level role. The only catch was he told me the company was filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday. I took the job hoping I could last there a year. I somehow made it through 2 rounds of layoffs and was there a year where I moved to another small company as like the whole IT shop that took me to the next level.