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Glad someone else remembers this well. Every time I read some self-righteous, mid-20-something blogger ranting like they are Michael Jordan, I remind myself of
by taude 15y ago
Glad someone else remembers this well. Every time I read some self-righteous, mid-20-something blogger ranting like they are Michael Jordan, I remind myself of when the first bubble blew-up and there WEREN'T jobs or opportunities for a lot of really talented/smart people.
- cydonian_monk 15y agoI remember the last two career fairs at my engineering school in late 2002 / early 2003. There were crickets chirping. Five airlines had booked booths, but only one sent a representative to say "we're not hiring.' The other four were left empty. Tech companies were about as sparse, but most at least sent a rep. The only ones doing any real hiring were FedEx (but not for technical positions - package handling only!) and a GeoEngineering firm that was looking for GIS grads. Talk about depressing.
- dugmartin 15y agoI've been lucky to experience this a few times. I graduated college in 1992 and decided to go to grad school partly because of the recession. When I got out of grad school in 1994 I went into the defense industry (cool job building realtime control systems) which was hemorrhaging jobs because of the "Peace Dividend". We had folks with 20 years of hard core experience basically begging for jobs when they opened.