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dot-com suuuuuuuuuuuucked. This was especially true in tech areas like Seattle and San Fran. Think of it more like the housing crisis to understand how bad this is going to be. OTOH, most of us have been through at least the housing crisis and covid, so we can handle it. I mean, we'll have to handle it, we won't have a choice.
I've been a software QA engineer since 1991. I wound up working as a professional mover during the dot com bust.
Yep, surviving is the way.
Got my first web gig in 1999, good timing. I went from coding java as a developer to making java as a barista.