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I'm currently overworked and very much underpaid, but adding significantly to my resume. I've become completely mercenary in my outlook, and will sell my services to the hightest bidder. At least, that is my plan until I land a job with a company I care to stay with. I might add, I'm contacted by head hunters on a fairly regular basis.

I'm currently overworked and very much underpaid, but adding significantly to my resume. I've become completely mercenary in my outlook, and will sell my services to the hightest bidder.

Not to pick on you but this was already the general sentiment of IT people years before this outsourcing phenomenon came on the scene. All during the go-go 1980s and 1990s, we had rapid turnover in IT departments because everybody was jumping ship for greener pastures elsewhere. There was no "loyalty" no matter how well they were treated. We'd have IT people coming in all the time with "better offers" from elsewhere, forcing us to either match it or see them vanish to the guy down the street who was offering them a few dollars more, leaving us in the lurch. If it wasn't extortion, it was pretty close to it.

Not that I'm complaining about that. It was the way it was. But it seems that many displaced IT people don't like having the shoe on the other foot. Now that companies are the ones finding the better deals, the IT people aren't liking it very much.

Just food for thought. I'm not taking a position either way on this.