Stock market crash means a lot of people lose their jobs, including people living paycheck to paycheck
Yeah, but a lot of people were being laid off before as well, weren’t they?
People suck at gauging risk. The only question is whether people have to deal with the threat of losing their job or not. Nobody thinks “how safe is my job in quantitavie terms”, it’s more “do I feel my job is safe”. More people may flip on the second in a market crash, but it doesn’t change anything for already insecure people.
The problem could be that there is no paycheck next time anymore.
Line goes down and you are out the door. Line goes up and you get jack shit. Isn’t the stock market so great and normal?
i think i’m getting old. welcome to your first financial hardship, though. you picked a doozie.
This will be my 3rd. But the first one mostly influenced my parents. We just felt shitty when our parents couldn’t afford anything for us during Xmas. That was also the time my parents told us Santa wasn’t real which made sense why the asshole in class always got the good shit.
This will be the third or fourth “once in a lifetime economic crisis” I’ve lived through in my lifetime and I’m barely 30.
I got laid off from my most meaningful job (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute) because of cutbacks resulting from the 2009 “Savings and Loan Crisis” - which happened to occur while the grant that paid for my job was being renewed.
I got laid off from my most fun job (World Opponent Network, a spinoff of Sierra Games) because of cutbacks when the parent company lost a shareholder lawsuit after some executive fuckwads cooked the books to manipulate the stock price.
The big-money people don’t care what kind of shit rains down on the peasants. Their world revolves around having more money they don’t need than they had last year when they also didn’t need it.
How does one come to work at both a cancer research institute and a game development company? That’s quite a diverse set of skills
The subject matter really isn’t that important in computer programming. My work was all with databases and web pages. At WON I wrote an online tournament system, which I got to do entirely by myself because it was such a small organization. At Fred Hutch I worked on a system where clinics around the world entered test results, biopsy data etc. for cancer research projects. My own daughter had been cured of a brain tumor (which is what made that job meaningful to me). I planned on spending the rest of my career at Fred Hutch, until shit happened. On the plus side, after Fred Hutch I got to work at Wizards of the Coast (more db and web dev), which always impresses people. I would say that place was more fun thatn World Opponent Network except at WON we had Unreal tournaments and occasional nerf gun fights.
Odd question but I’m trying to remember a old game that I think was on WON. It was a top down hover tank muiltyplayer battle game. Was alot of fun but dont remember the name of it for the life of me. Edit found it! Attack Retrieve Capture
