[nextworddev]

Interesting- what trades did the people who left tech back in the first Dot Com bubble end up going into?

[zer00eyz]

Preacher, Painter (houses, now has a painting company), two cooks, a few went back to school for various non tech things and I lost track of them at that point.

[datavirtue]

I went back to being a cook, then a mechanic. Then I freelanced for a while, slung mass code in personal projects and slid back in as an application support engineer. Now I'm a senior senior dev that can drive product design/strategy, architect, code, and write copy for marketing.

[margalabargala]

It was during covid, not dot-com, but this person went into carpentry: https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149...

[ryandrake]

It’s probably mostly temporary, until CEOs decide the “bad economic climate” is over and start hiring again.

I know decent former tech company employees who are stocking shelves at Home Depot until hiring picks up.

[maerF0x0]

I'd rather collect $14 an hour on unemployment than earn $18 exacerbating the ageism I'll face when the market picks up.

[esaym]

Real estate

[MOARDONGZPLZ]

Investment banking