I went through the dot-com-crash. This might not be wonderful advice but how I made it through was to hold on to my job despite taking on loads of new roles an

I went through the dot-com-crash. This might not be wonderful advice but how I made it through was to hold on to my job despite taking on loads of new roles and work without expecting more pay. I kept from being a salary target. I did this at one of the worst companies in the history of the internet but I do not regret it. I stuck with it and just accepted all the new roles and responsibilities as learning experience. With feet to the fire I picked up decades of experience in less than a decade. I eventually left when the fifth merger/chapter-11 resulted in customers and employees being put into precarious legal situations. I will not name the company as some of those shady individuals are still running companies. It was both the worst and best experience I could have had. I learned a great deal but had to accept being put into morbid situations of documenting the jobs of people that left and people that were about to leave. Knowing some of those people had kids to feed made it very rough and demoralizing. But I stuck with it, mostly kept my head down and just took on every challenge I could to gain as much knowledge and experience as possible. I automated countless tasks before automation was cool. These experiences and knowledge I gained benefited me greatly in my career at other companies.