When I escaped the Dilbert cube a month and a day after September 11, 2001, everything in the world hand ground to a HALT. Nothin’ was going on. Everyone was in a state of suspended animation. I remember going to a trade show a few days after the towers went down and all the attendees were milling around in a daze.
But there’s always a few people who aren’t sleepwalking, and they have to keep the trains running on time. So I got a consulting gig and soon after landed a couple more.
Consulting Client #5 was a catalog company…