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You parents with H.S. or college kids who are considering an IT career: think carefully about it. Ten years ago jobs were plentiful and well-paid. Not now. And you bust yer a$$ 1) getting there and 2) staying there.

I'd give the opposite advice. If you are suited to the work and don't expect that the world owes you a house on easy street to maintain your status, you can go a long way in IT. Yes, you bust your rump staying ahead of the curve, but it's a pretty cool way to keep your mind sharp and the job unboring. If you have no initiative or are content to sit on the things you've done forever and expect to be rewarded for it, you might be in the wrong job.

I'd give the opposite advice. If you are suited to the work and don't expect that the world owes you a house on easy street to maintain your status, you can go a long way in IT.

Until you hit late thirties or early forties. Or unless of course your company simply cans all of their American workers to make room for H1-B's.

Yes, you bust your rump staying ahead of the curve, but it's a pretty cool way to keep your mind sharp and the job unboring.

Been there, done that..

If you have no initiative or are content to sit on the things you've done forever and expect to be rewarded for it, you might be in the wrong job.

You're also sitting in the wrong job if you expect to feed a family when they most need it. Many families are in a horrible way right now due to the fact that monied minnions of industry executives have fabricated lies insisting that there's a shortage of qualified engineers in this country, so they needed to raise the H1-B quota in order to fill those positions. Most people here know that's not just an absurd lie, it is an obscenely ridiculous statement.

Is that what you got from my post? How old are you and how long have you been in IT? Companies don't care much for experience and judgement, it's the salary level they're concerned with. You can get a fresh grad or H-1B for less than half the cost.

Frankly, you sound like a low or mid-level management drone.

Is that what you got from my post? How old are you and how long have you been in IT? Companies don't care much for experience and judgement, it's the salary level they're concerned with. You can get a fresh grad or H-1B for less than half the cost.

Frankly, you sound like a low or mid-level management drone.

You're also ignoring the evidence presented in the article (also indicative of drone-ness).