I had around 10 years' experience by then. Found a dream job in London but they imploded two days after I started. Took me six months to find something else. A

I had around 10 years' experience by then. Found a dream job in London but they imploded two days after I started. Took me six months to find something else. And that turned out to be an OK job with EDS, but at half what I was earning before. By 2004 when things had started to recover they seemed to get a fright because I suddenly got 3 raises in 4 months which almost tripled my salary. Was too late though, because during that time I was interviewing at Microsoft. Crazy times.