You were in a job that was bound to go bust. With the huge surge in networking and computerization in the late 80s and 90s, there was a shortage of IT professionals in the marketplace....some were being hired at 6 figures!
Lots of people became IT certified and the market was then flooded.
Your job loss was simple supply and demand.
No, my job loss was not simple supply and demand. Sorry. That's utter prevarication. Demand for my job didn't go down.
My job was offshored, not done away with. I was, in point of fact, replaced by a *cheaper*, less productive mexican national in mexico because it was *cheaper*, not because of supply and demand - not even because of the US market; but, because of US labor rates compared to foreign labor rates. It seems that while dumping of product is illegal, it's fine do dump with wage rate as long as you can make a profit subverting the economy on that end of the equation. Apparently, dumping wouldn't be wrong if it were because of labor cost.. Amazingly, our forefathers weren't that stupid either.