[MEGoody]

"sure, people are working, they are moving from $70K/yr tech jobs to working at Lowes."

Then why don't they update their skills a little bit and go for an IT auditor job?

I read an article in ComputerWorld two weeks ago that there was a serious shortage of IT auditors, and with the outsourcing going on, most companies were beefing up their IT security staffs.

It's like what happened with buggy whip makers when cars started being built. I'm sure they were freaking out - only to find later that the economy had merely undergone a transition.

[radicalamericannationalist]

"It's like what happened with buggy whip makers when cars started being built. I'm sure they were freaking out - only to find later that the economy had merely undergone a transition."

This hoary old example brought out by free traitors ignores one basic historical fact. Buggy whip makers lost their job because their technology was obsoleted, not because the buggy whip factories went to India. The folks who lost their jobs in buggy whip factories were able to get new jobs precisely because we had not shipped our industrial base overseas.

[ninenot]

there was a serious shortage of IT auditors

Interesting. There was a "serious shortage" of IT auditors in 1983, too; it was a "shortage" only because Arthur Anderson started recommending that everyone ought to have a couple around the office.

The shortage entirely disappeared by 1988, and, in fact, the number of IT auditors shrank seriously from then through (apparently) now.

The new "shortage" has to do with another accounting firm over-reading the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley to jack up their fees...

Any decent financial auditor can do this work, assuming they have a few years' experience.