How did the 2008 financial crisis affect you?

I was already too broke to notice

It pretty radically changed the first decade of my career, most likely

I only got somewhat lucky because the company I was working with had a lot of the marathon Garyville major expansion project which was in play right before and they dedicated to finish it which they felt would be past the recession, which it was.

This is a whole new ball of wax and I’ve been through the repercussions from .dot bomb, 9/11, Katrina/Rita.... this is an entirely new beast. I’ve seen nothing like it.

It didn’t affect us until 2012 but that’s bc if the hurricanes down here in LA

Temporarily made millions instead of billions.

Graduated from LSU in spring of '08 just before shite hit the fan. I had taken a job in BR to stay with a girl who hadn't finished college yet. Normally that's a bad move, but it worked out as all my fellow graduates who had gone elsewhere in the country to work were laid off by the end of the year, but thanks to all the Katrina/Rita money in LA my job was safe. Pay sucked, but it was a stable job.

I work in fixed income, went from selling CDOs and crazy RMBS back to the bread and butter community bank business...was a win before and windfall when the economy tanked

I got the largest bonus I have ever rec'd in Jan 2009. Still at the same job. Haven't had a bonus that size since. But we aren't in the real estate/banking/finance industry.

Not much directly.

I bought a house at the beginning of 2009 for $179k thinking it was a steal. Houses in the neighborhood were listed for ~$200k, and mine was flipped off a foreclosure.

Two years later we needed to move and our best offer was $154k and we were expected to cover all closing costs.

The market in that area didn't fully recover until 2017 or so when we were able to sell for a whopping $5000 profit (not really a profit considering maintenance, etc over the years).