But as outside irrigation money dried up, these dot-com businesses have failed and new jobs have grown scarcer for content or marketing folks such as Sugarman. But happily for some, not all Internet jobs have shriveled up and blow away. But if you have marketable skills, you can command whatever salary you want. Recruiters say IT jobs still outnumber available IT personnel. I know he's got five other offers.
Every company needs people like that.
But they only need five of them. If you have 10 small start ups with 100 employees each, that's only 1,000 employees. You have some Internet infrastructure company that might have 1,000 employees now but might want to grow to 2,000 next year. So you can have 10 small companies go out of business, and that one large company's going to more than make up for that displacement. Those sorts of calculations, of course, offer little consolation to the employees of those 10 smaller companies.