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There were more than enough crappy dot com companies hiring executive chefs turned "programmers" after taking a community college class on MS Front Page to say
by ktsmith 16y ago
There were more than enough crappy dot com companies hiring executive chefs turned "programmers" after taking a community college class on MS Front Page to say that the job market was also inflated. The number of unqualified people that were employed in some type of IT position during the boom was very apparent to anyone that had to deal with filtering resumes during the beginning of the bust.
- cageface 16y agoIt was a weird time. I remember briefly feeling like a celebrity at parties when I said I was a programmer. All kinds of people that had never expressed an interest in software before were suddenly chasing after tech certifications.