Lol CityWide Change Bank. I was nervous because I was running out of change, then I saw a CityWide Change Bank up ahead. She went to CityWide Change Bank to get exact change for the toll, "to save time".

Kubernetes Prime that's pretty funny because it will probably happen. Reminds me of the South Park episode where they go into the future, and all the companies have merged and either have Prime or Plus or Max in their name, such as the restaurant they eat at is called Denny's Applebees Max.

Yeah 2008 was much worse than today, effecting all sectors and all industries, especially anything related to the real estate industrial complex.

In my opinion, things in software engineering are stagnant right now. No doubt there was a significant downturn in 2023-2024. At least at the moment no one really seems to be hiring.

She writes like she has 5 years of experience.

what does this even mean?

> do whatever crappy contract work you can find on your laptop to keep yourself in the game.

Ha ha so true!

I entered tech in 2000, right as everything was going down. Hey, it was fun for the 8 months I worked for what we now call a startup in Miami. They closed abruptly, and luckily I was able to get another job within about 4 months.

The market in tech is definitely worse than 2020 (I don't know why some here say those were the days of wine and roses) and I was always able to find work during the financial crisis, though it could take a couple of months. So, I'd say that the job market for tech is not as bad as the dot com crash but worse than 2009 or 2020.