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Current Unemployment Rate in the IT Industry?
concerned-about-employment asks: "What's the unemployment rate in the IT industry currently? Years ago I heard it was 8-9% but with so many jobs going offshore and the general unemployment rate rising, could it be even higher than before? Has it really broken 10% as some people say? That would mean 1 out of every 10 IT workers is out of a job. Personally though, from the perspective of a recent college graduate, it looks like 20% from here." How does the actual national unemployment rate in IT compare to the number of IT professionals that you know who are currently out of work?
Serious question here. Shouldn't system administration go away as computers get easier to use? Obviously software is not to the point where a CEO can handle setting up a mail server, but it should be at a point where any kid can read the manual and setup a box. Maybe they don't know some obscure flags that can be set to tune performance up an extra 5%, but as long as the system works, it doesn't generally matter much. And if performance becomes an issue down the road, they could probably look into it more and learn those switches.