I was stupid and took a major risk. I had a nice secure job in the defence sector writing embedded software. This was a suddenly ramp up in work after 9/11. But

I was stupid and took a major risk. I had a nice secure job in the defence sector writing embedded software. This was a suddenly ramp up in work after 9/11. But i had some ethical issues continuing in this space. I also developed in internal web based asset tracking system and thought that was more interesting. So I decided right in the middle of the crash to bail out into a 6 person design agency start up. Fortunately they were vastly more competent than their immediate competitors and vacuumed up the rest of their work in no time at all. For me, my salary doubled overnight, stress levels down, no bureaucracy, no horrid tools to use, much better place to work. Best decision ever! But boy was it a risk. Not everyone lost. There was a grand consolidation and if you were in the right place it was a win.