In 1999, when I was 19 years old, I started working at a "web buraeu", as we called them in my country back then. I did html, asp, php, graphics, design. All that. A jack of all trades, sort of, as I've always been talented with pretty much anything technical, and as it was a small company that needed its employees to "pitch in" where they could. I worked with this company for 1.5 years, until march 2001, when me and two others had to leave because of shortage of work. At this point I had developed a sociophobia and various, severe stress disorders, among them panic attacks. I took a position with another "web bureau" 2 months later to try maintain an income. 9 months later, in march 2002, just having had my 22nd birthday, I was broken down to the point that I often needed help with grocery shopping and most other daily errands related to the outside of my home. In late 2003, the side-effects hit their climax; on average I left my apartment 3-4 times per month - just to take the trash out. Today, march 2010, I have still not fully recovered my ability to work in the capacity normally implied by a "9 to 5". My normal hours in the two jobs that broke me down ranged between 10 to 14 hours per day, and I worked most saturdays and sundays as well.