I switched jobs in 1998, and was at a biggish, stable company in the Atlanta area, feeling lucky as I heard about stories like this out in California. When it

I switched jobs in 1998, and was at a biggish, stable company in the Atlanta area, feeling lucky as I heard about stories like this out in California. When it happens again, I don't think it will be as bad. In addition to learning from the lessons of the past, remember that everyone had to buy hardware, servers, big-ass monitors, all that. Now personal laptops are cheaper plus everything's on AWS now, you scale up or down.