Used to Be a Big Shot

A year ago, first class was my second home. Now I'm collecting cans for the recycling deposits. Well, I'm not quite there yet. But I'm fast becoming a poster boy for downward mobility. And while the headlines scream of an economic miracle of high growth, low inflation and a happy, fat middle class, some of us techno-types are looking to the family dog as a potential source of protein. For every Silicon Valley, 20-something multimillionaire singing easy from options and IPOs, a whole other