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The head of Lockheed Martin just wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal indicating that LM needs 14,000 engineers a year for the next 10 years just to replace those who are retiring -- and that is 22% of the total graduating class for engineers in this country.

A LOT of homeland security-type jobs cannot be outsourced because of security issues. Virginia has a lot of these jobs, our NoVa unemployment is like 0.8%, and you can't find american hi-tech workers available without paying thousands of dollars (My employer offers I think $3,000 for each person I find who takes a job).

I put my two-weeks notice in back in November...

I was then offered the biggest retention package ever offered in the history of my company. Aircraft. I LOVE where I work...I did not want to leave, but better benefits were offered at Company X.

The economy is REALLY bad if all you've done is work the de-burring bench for thirty years.

But if you can prove that your presence will make your company profit, day after day, you are pretty much secure.