I still have a great IT job, but I know if I ever lose it I'll never get another (over 40; fairly specialized industry knowledge; small number of potential future employers). It's been a good run, but I'm already looking for alternative career paths when it ends.
Do what I did - transition to being a business analyst or a quality assurnace analyst. Any knucklehead can program a computer, anywhere in the world. But business knowledge is very specific and also tends to be culturally isolated from country to country - you conduct business differently in Japan than you do here - and someone from India who doesn't live here and isn't familiar with American business would have a hard time being an analyst.
Raw curiosity - what kind of things are you looking into? It seems like career-transitioning will be a hot area soon (if not now).