[riri]

right now, sales and marketing is a good place to be if you want to work in tech

Yeah it is. My husband just switched jobs. He went from a position at a manufacturing company to one at an engineering firm. (he's not an engineer, or IT,etc). But these guys working the sales end, aint a one of 'em bringing in less than $200,000 a year with all the perks. A couple of the better ones, VP's and such are kicking back close to half a million with their bonus plans.

[old-ager]

Yeah, the bull$shitters always make the big bucks. For a short time, the "geeks" got in on it, but too many of them were full of bull$hit too, and they got hammered. You can kind of take your choice in life: care about real, hard skills and actually making or fixing something, and maybe make enough to survive, or learn how to schmooze, manipulate, lie, and generally spin a line of bull, and make some real money.

[oceanview]

well, good for them I say. Many of the sales guys I know are also upset about this offshoring, because they fear it will mean the products they are given to sell will be of lower quality.