Re: Gardening leave
Early '90s, worked as GIS tech in St. Petersburg (sunny place with beaches and pubs). There were 4 or 5 GIS shops in the area and when one got a large contract (i.e. map all utilities of St. Louis), they'd hire a bunch of folks for contract duration and then let us go. Could quickly find a job at another shop. Or course, with large pool of trained cart/digi-techs, wages stayed low.
Still, gave me my first exposure to SunOS and then Solaris so moved on after a couple years. Still have my rapidograph pens!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
