That must have sucked going into a downhill ride in both work and office expectations. I imagine within three years you were working in some crappy location ja

That must have sucked going into a downhill ride in both work and office expectations. I imagine within three years you were working in some crappy location jammed with developers. I was lucky. I started work in a major recession after 12 months of searching. Every year was an improvement in both salary, conditions and offices. By the time the bubble came and went I'd seen it all anyway. Still, good times. I remember having a golf putter beside my desk and engaging in golf competitions with senior management. And my coworkers writing cool multiplayer games instead of actually, you know, writing code that paid bills. Oh there was deadlines and projects and stuff like that. Another one of my friends was having visa troubles, and had to produce evidence of employment. All he had was a couple of employement documents on a letterhead of a company that didn't exist anymore, and the domain name went to some crazy domain parking company. The INS people were skeptical to say the least when he tried to explain what they did.