[w1andsodidwe]

Also, you can't just do one thing. I have been in the Idustry for 25 years. I can write mainframe IBM and Unisys Cobol, I can also build and manage a Citrix Metaframe server, manage a flock of outside salesmen and their laptops, Manage and code a Powerpoint Sales system, write VBA code to automate excel spreadsheets, maintain 3 corporate web sites, etc.

I could go on and on with all the different things I can do in the IT world. Too many people are specialist. "Well I can only write Progress Code on a Unix box" is a bad attitude.

[hopespringseternal]

I could go on and on with all the different things I can do in the IT world. Too many people are specialist. "Well I can only write Progress Code on a Unix box" is a bad attitude.

True, but the nature of most IT jobs produces dead-end specialists. The only way to keep from being pigeon-holed was to keep switching jobs and nobody can do that now.

Right now I may have a seemingly stable IT job, but I don't count on having it forever, especially since I am the only pale male left (with the commensurate salary.)

Everyone around me is fresh off the boat and works for magic beans.

This probably won't be an issue this election, but sooner or later the democrats are going to figure out this demographic and start making promises.