I lost my most recently held IT job several years back for both economic and health reasons, but in the process immediately took back most of the work as an independent consultant. Based on my own experience and that of friends, work in IT has in fact been drying up steadily.
When I was in school 20 years ago, I took up data processing as a career because it was something that was something I had a talent in and would make me enough money that I could feed my expensive hoby of music - the gods know I'd never actually make a living in music (which is what I'd rather have wanted to do, truth be told). Now the IT market has bottomed out so badly that with the right perparation and a broad enough perspective on my part, I can be more successful in a realistic sense in music than I can in IT.
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I lost my most recently held IT job several years back for both economic and health reasons, but in the process immediately took back most of the work as an independent consultant. Based on my own experience and that of friends, work in IT has in fact been drying up steadily.
When I was in school 20 years ago, I took up data processing as a career because it was something that was something I had a talent in and would make me enough money that I could feed my expensive hoby of music - the gods know I'd never actually make a living in music (which is what I'd rather have wanted to do, truth be told). Now the IT market has bottomed out so badly that with the right perparation and a broad enough perspective on my part, I can be more successful in a realistic sense in music than I can in IT.
Raven