[rufus_foreman]

I think the thing to realize is that a lot of it is out of your control.

I was working at a startup during the 2007-09 recession. Before that things were going great and they were hiring, and hiring, and hiring.

Then all of the sudden things weren't great. The startup had two products they were working on, all of the sudden they only had money for one. One morning I came into work early and all the conference rooms already had people in them with the doors closed, they axed everyone working on product A and walked them out the door. I was on product B, I was fine.

Some of those people didn't work for almost two years. It was just random. I had quit a software developer job in the real estate industry to work at the startup because I thought it was obviously going to be a bad time to be in the real estate industry. Which it was, but I had no idea that it was going to affect everything else.