I would have graduated with a Comp Sci degree in 2001, but I dropped out in late 1999 with a low level web dev job. (Yes, my title was something like Assistant

I would have graduated with a Comp Sci degree in 2001, but I dropped out in late 1999 with a low level web dev job. (Yes, my title was something like Assistant Webmaster.) My first job (slicing in Photoshop, Cold Fusion being used for local small business web sites...) actually fizzled out, but then I got a proper salaried job doing Classic ASP + SQL Server + Microsoft Commerce Server type work. Been doing work roughly in that area ever since, typically for small businesses. While I did see a local company downsize sometime around 2002/2003 from 50 to 20 employees (but then they hired me not long after), I wasn't affected negatively by the "tech crash" because every local business was on board for getting at least a web site up.