My story is that I survived the first round of redundancies at an internet startup, but was made redundant in the second round. It hit me hard, and there were

My story is that I survived the first round of redundancies at an internet startup, but was made redundant in the second round. It hit me hard, and there were so many people looking for programming jobs that I found it impossible to find a new job. I didn't handle things very well, and ended up doing jobs like washing-up and putting up marquees. The story ends happily though, I found a good software job fairly soon, and those other jobs I did in between gave me a bit of experience of life, a bit of perspective.