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During the 2000 days most startups were dying left and right, I got friends what were fired multiple times, when joining companies that they thought to be on the safe side.

Myself I took the opportunity to just improve my degree with an internship at CERN.

Later in 2008 while not being fired, I enjoyed the merge that Nokia went through with Siemens, and a few side effects from that, as they tried to keep going in a market with uncertainties.