For about two years, I was an engineering company's only technical employee and I had little else to do besides answering customer support questions. The busine

For about two years, I was an engineering company's only technical employee and I had little else to do besides answering customer support questions. The business was clearly on its last legs and had been so for years. This was just its last gasp. As another poster mentioned, it requires very little technical staff to just keep the lights on if you're not doing anything to move the business forward.