I spent most of my career in commercial real estate, either as an employee or an outside consultant.  There are many historic parallels with the tech industry.  You benefited from the booms (the 80s was a particularly lucrative decade with the explosion of tax related limited partnership investment vehicles) and were shown the door during the busts, and there were many.  I found that being a consultant was a career benefit.  I was generally hired during the early stages of an economic recovery and often retained during the subsequent downtown.  There always was anxiety, but I ended up making a pretty good living.

I spent most of my career in commercial real estate, either as an employee or an outside consultant.  There are many historic parallels with the tech industry.  You benefited from the booms (the 80s was a particularly lucrative decade with the explosion of tax related limited partnership investment vehicles) and were shown the door during the busts, and there were many.  I found that being a consultant was a career benefit.  I was generally hired during the early stages of an economic recovery and often retained during the subsequent downtown.  There always was anxiety, but I ended up making a pretty good living.

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