I'm sitting here in a hotel lobby in Boston thinking about the first placement I made when I started my recruiting firm in 1997. The company made an offer that we were going to extend to the candidate. The client was mine and the candidate was recruited by my wife. It was about 10:30 my time. The fee was going to be 17k. So it's about 10:30 pm and I give the good news to my wife who is almost a…