Where have you been? Ask anyone working in IT or networking where the jobs are going. First it was just berry-picking and hotel room cleaning, then it was construction and blue-collar labor. Now the foreigners don't even have to break into our country to take our jobs away.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I am a fellow victim. I got downsized in electronics the last go around. I am now in IT. There is plenty of work out there to do. I answered an add in the paper last fall after particpating in another doom and gloom HIB FR post. I got an interview on the first ad I saw and probably would have been offered the job if I had really wanted it, but it would have lateral job transfer. The search commitee did say competition for postition was extremely competitive.