[MrB]

Like anyone trying to sell a product (and your skills and labor are just another product in the market),

you have to figure out what the buying public (employers) want and need,

and supply it to them.

[dhs12345]

Nice, generic, answer.

That is the challenge -- figuring out where the next boom will be. And if it takes several years of college to retrain, then timing is another variable.

Unfortunately, many of the jobs being outsourced are not of the hamburger flipping variety (that anyone can do with little training). The jobs are high paying, middle class to upper middle class jobs that take several years of training to become proficient. The "replacement jobs" are likely to require many years of training, too.

I will keep my ear to the rail...