[stylin19a]

Got laid-off tuesday. (Thank you India). There's quite a few IT jobs available in my practice....but my skill set doesn't match most of the requirments.
Salary is not THE issue. Working is. Not sure I want to enhance my skills, only to see the same thing happening down the road.
Maybe it's time to get out of IT.

[looscnnn]

I am in the IT field also. When I was looking for a job, the skill sets that were required in job openings were nuts. They almost all wanted you to have experience with just about everything in IT, even if the job had nothing to do with them.

[thoughtomator]

Maybe it's time to get out of IT.

Yeah, basically, that's the story. What corporate thinks it wants from IT, now, is not what IT staff in the US got hired to do, three years back.

Basically, corporate thinks of IT as mechanical work, and doesn't yet understand how pervasive language and cultural barriers actually are, in this particular field. So do something else until (if) they wake up - with a much stronger negotiating hand, once they are fully aware of the reasons they want you.