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No one is enslaved to only ONE kind of work.

Why should we be enslaved to have to change professions because a handful of globalizes want to destroy one profession after another? First it was the manufacturing jobs, so people were told to go into technology, now the technology jobs are going, so people are told to get into the services sector. So when will it end? What profession would you pick today? Most professions require a substantial investment of time and money. Most people work and gain experience at the profession they choose. You people that spout how easy it is to change professions are not being realistic. Most people can not afford to spend their lives getting different degrees in different fields. Do you know that a substantial number of engineering students are leaving this field because they know there will be no jobs when they graduate? Are we all supposed to become doctors and lawyers in order to survive?

Why should we be enslaved to have to change professions because a handful of globalizes want to destroy one profession after another?

Change ALWAYS happens! It's ALWAYS been that way! It's not about globalization . That's just your hand scapegoat that allows you to avoid personal responsibility.

First it was the manufacturing jobs, so people were told to go into technology, now the technology jobs are going, so people are told to get into the services sector. So when will it end?

It won't end! Change is here to stay!

What profession would you pick today?

I've moved on from technology. I'm doing something else that fits me. The bigger question is what should YOU do? I can't tell YOU what to do. YOU need to determine that. Meantime, I'm doing just fine $$$.

Most professions require a substantial investment of time and money.

Not true. Tell that to Col Sanders who founded KFC. Look up Harland Sanders and see what he did. You're just looking for excuses.

Most people work and gain experience at the profession they choose.

Not necessarily.

You people that spout how easy it is to change professions are not being realistic.

No, you're lazy and looking for excuse on why you shouldn't CHANGE. It is REALITY that change happens. You're trying to avoid reality.

Most people can not afford to spend their lives getting different degrees in different fields. Do you know that a substantial number of engineering students are leaving this field because they know there will be no jobs when they graduate? Are we all supposed to become doctors and lawyers in order to survive?

Use the knowledge in another profession! GEESH! You make it sound like people are educated robots. If they are that way then it's no wonder they are at a loss since they are unable to THINK. Doctors and lawyers aren't all surviving. They too are changing.

Honestly, you really need to evaluate what skills you have and give the market what it wants of THOSE skills. People are CONSTANTLY reinventing themselves. Take Madonna. She can't sing worth crap - yet she constantly reinvents herself to what her audiance wants. She's not exactly a mental giant yet she makes more money than you'll ever make.

Stop being such a loser.

It occurs to me that NMH is some sort of accountant. They are the only profession I am aware of which thinks that human beings are ciphers on a spreadsheet--replaceable willy-nilly, and whose craftsmanship is utterly transferable from one business to another.

Most likely NMH would be a little uncomfortable, however, were we to suggest that the former tool-maker for Tupperware plastics has recently become the surgeon who will do NMH's brain-transplant.

See--some skills are just not so easily transferrable...especially when it comes to NMH's own personal concerns.

Do you know that a substantial number of engineering students are leaving this field because they know there will be no jobs when they graduate?

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If I had looked at Engineering that way before I graduated, I would have changed majors and missed out on the boom. I graduated in 1979. Just 2-years before that, a graduating Engineering student couldn't even buy a job. When I came out, I had offers from 4 different companies. Interviews with many more. It's kind of like I've heard about seeing a NASCAR crash ahead of you on the track. See the crash and drive right toward it. By the time you get there, it will be gone.