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Originally posted by quiet
ahaha. must have done well.
have you ever seen startup.com?
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Yeah, its a good representation of the orgy of greed and sudden wealth that went on. I did IT contracts for Sybase, Netscape, Cadence, PeopleSoft, and a bunch of smaller companies.. lots of fun.
The money wasn't just at the top either.. it was true trickle down economics.
The bottom feeders.. new helpdesk people with no experience.. were getting $25-$30 an hour to start. Adding in the time and a half you charged for staying at work 'till 9pm playing Doom on the LAN, alot of these fuckers were pulling in six figures.
If you knew anything at all about windows networks.. $50+/hour.. Unix $100+/hour.. router programming and enterprise level networking.. you could write your own paycheck.
Only lasted a couple of years.. but it was a blast. Companies were bleeding cash from every orifice imaginable... total chaos.