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by pink_dinner 3735 days ago
I saved myself at one company for almost two years, because nobody could do my job. I was the only developer and I ran their entire e-commerce store. Pretty much every department was slowly let go and for the last year, I moved all of their systems from an expensive and bloated shipping system and our own hosted/custom cart to Excel and a $100/month hosted e-commerce platform.

At this point, they didn't need me anymore and I was let go (which I knew was going to happen, but I enjoyed the relatively easy paycheck).

I also used that extra free time during work to start the company I am still running today.