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Interesting- what trades did the people who left tech back in the first Dot Com bubble end up going into?
by nextworddev 3y ago
Interesting- what trades did the people who left tech back in the first Dot Com bubble end up going into?
- margalabargala 3y agoIt was during covid, not dot-com, but this person went into carpentry: https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149477 https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149...
- zer00eyz 3y agoPreacher, Painter (houses, now has a painting company), two cooks, a few went back to school for various non tech things and I lost track of them at that point.
- esaym 3y agoReal estate
- ryandrake 3y agoIt’s probably mostly temporary, until CEOs decide the “bad economic climate” is over and start hiring again. I know decent former tech company employees who are stocking shelves at Home Depot until hiring picks up.
- maerF0x0 3y agoI'd rather collect $14 an hour on unemployment than earn $18 exacerbating the ageism I'll face when the market picks up.
- MOARDONGZPLZ 3y agoInvestment banking
- datavirtue 3y agoI went back to being a cook, then a mechanic. Then I freelanced for a while, slung mass code in personal projects and slid back in as an application support engineer. Now I'm a senior senior dev that can drive product design/strategy, architect, code, and write copy for marketing.