[wyldfire]

I'm confused: $1000-2000 days? Are you suggesting that there are "many of you" who pulled down ~250-500k USD per year back in the 80s/90s/00s? Which industry(ies)/career(s) are you referring to?

[davelnewton]

It depended... $1k days weren't terribly unusual back then, or now, if you have specific skill sets.

[bshimmin]

Or even if you only happen to have a pretty standard skill-set, but are reasonably good at what you do, good at selling yourself, and happen to be connected with the right sort of people. (Though making $2000 a day might also require being quite hard-working, depending on what you do.)

[trcollinson]

Y2K fears, Mainframe to Server migrations, Command Line to Graphical UI, the Internet! Oh man, those were good times.

However, to be brutally honest, $1000 a day isn't even close to unobtainable now. Many people in this industry pull down ~$250-500k per year.