How long have you been in the software market? 2008 was terrible and dot com for a while was also a death knell. If anything the last 15 years have been absolutely amazing for working in software
Anyway, I'll take today's economy over the dot com bust, the early 2000 off-shoring craze, and 2008 recession..
2002 -37.58
2001 -32.65
2000 -36.84
The people that think this is bad, can't imagine what 2002 was like when the all time high in the Nasdaq was a few days ago.
Hate to break it to everyone but the good times are right now.
The next decade we should see a massive deflationary force from software being so much cheaper to create.