You become more resilient,'' said Dale Larson, associate professor of counseling psychology at Santa Clara University. Michael Wray of San Mateo left a secure job with a non-tech corporation in Chicago in September to try his hand in the Internet gold fields. Lifestyle changes Those who signed on for the Internet ride with the assumption that the journey would be straight up find themselves making some tough lifestyle choices now that windfall stock-option gains have vanished. Some of the tech people Plante sees in his private practice are dropping out of therapy for financial reasons. Nobody knows how many people hurt by the downturn will use this juncture as an opportunity to examine their priorities and the place of work in their lives.
People are basically optimistic.
Even if they lose a ton of money, they tend to go back.