I used to say that the bubble bursting got the people who quickly got themselves an MCSE so they can 'work in IT' and get paid well while they have no IT skills

I used to say that the bubble bursting got the people who quickly got themselves an MCSE so they can 'work in IT' and get paid well while they have no IT skills, to go back to the jobs they should have been doing like sales. That's what happened, and many of them then ended up as estate agents.