And this is a boom economy in the freest and richest country in the history of the world, and you've got some nerve moaning about any of it. If you aren't working at Best Buy scrubbing malware out of ignorant user's PCs for the Geek Squad you should count yourself lucky, and so should those who are doing that, and so should those working checkout there, or new door at Starbucks making shots.
Graditude, people. If you live without it, you would be miserable even if money grew on trees.
new = next - mental typo.
I'm sorry but I don't buy the "be happy you're working, no how matter how much you hate your job" line. There *are* problems in the IT industry, big problems, and I'm not going to play the "don't complain or the GOP might look bad" game. Maybe where you live it's great, maybe you're one of the lucky ones who is either young and working in the hottest technologies already or who is lucky enough to have an employer who will let you keep up to date in addition to creating product. In this area, the IT industry is in serious pain. I talk to two recuiters weekly and development is dead here (and we're a top 10 U.S. city). You should take a look at Slashdot sometime. A lot of people are complaining about how the "skill set" mentality is pigeonholing vast portions of the IT workforce, and all we keep hearing is how employers can't find the talent they need and want more H-1B visas. Sorry but I call ***BS*** on that one. They can't find the 100% exact match talent they want and won't give anyone who isn't a 100% match the chance to meet their needs. The recruiters aren't helping things at all either because all they see is the list of buzzwords in front of them and they won't market anyone who isn't a 100% exact match for fear of not making their sell or for fear of sending the wrong candidate (and many of them don't know what a close match is because they don't understand the buzzwords they hit you with -- I don't know how many times a recruiter has openly admitted he/she doesn't know what they mean and has actually asked me to explain them).
I think you have discovered the key to lifelong happiness. ; ).