Keeping in mind that your future may not trend exactly like the future of IT in the US, the answer to your question is highly dependant on what you envision you'll be doing with IT. I doubt the number of devices (and users) will decrease. I also doubt that technology will be so transparent no one will need IT for anything [if you are a developer, however, your aim ought to be to make everything transparent for the user and needing minimal suppport intervention.]
A hot button in hiring tends to be initial ramp-up time. Recent graduates from CS programs quite often need to learn how to program for a production environment anyway. For your first job the task is to make that calculus be in your favour. When hiring for IT my model is "What else can you do?" If you are smart, driven, creative and thoughtful about more than just programming, chances are you will be just fine.
And remember--given the length of a carrer, expect job and career changes, expect learning new architectures and paradigms within a very short time, expect to fail miserably more than once. Ensure you choose a field where all of that can be fun.
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Keeping in mind that your future may not trend exactly like the future of IT in the US, the answer to your question is highly dependant on what you envision you'll be doing with IT. I doubt the number of devices (and users) will decrease. I also doubt that technology will be so transparent no one will need IT for anything [if you are a developer, however, your aim ought to be to make everything transparent for the user and needing minimal suppport intervention.]
A hot button in hiring tends to be initial ramp-up time. Recent graduates from CS programs quite often need to learn how to program for a production environment anyway. For your first job the task is to make that calculus be in your favour. When hiring for IT my model is "What else can you do?" If you are smart, driven, creative and thoughtful about more than just programming, chances are you will be just fine.
And remember--given the length of a carrer, expect job and career changes, expect learning new architectures and paradigms within a very short time, expect to fail miserably more than once. Ensure you choose a field where all of that can be fun.