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I think I no a little more than you no. (Or did I spell too many of those words right for you to understand me?)

I actually know some people who work in IT. My father is an electronics engineer. My husband did it for the Air Force. I actually have time to read. Can you refute my points without resort to ad hominem? I don't believe it's impossible that I'm wrong.

Your contention that we all should have made a better "prediction" and chosen a different career path is absurd. No one expected the massive outsourcing going on today. Study after study, even fairly recent studies, indicated that IT was the place to be. It is not reasonable to asume that anyone should have predicted the wholesale sellout of American workers as is occuring today... with the h1-b, the L1 visa programs and the offshoring. Of course, I'll be laughing when all these execs that proposed ofshoring solutions get outsourced as well. No reason that a company can't find a bright MBA from India to do their job for half the cost. Oh wait, I forgot that execs protect their own. No outsourcing for them... as they are the chosen, the elite.

Regardless, I wasn't one of those that jumped on the band wagon during the .com era. Even if IT had a poor outlook, I still would have pursued it as an occupation... as I love what I do. I've been programming since I was 6. I learned assembly when I was 8. Wrote an arcade game when I was 12. No band wagonneer here.