Life After the IT Department
Submitted by matt on Tue, 05/13/2008 - 11:03am.
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Article in eWeek: Life After the IT Department
"Though IT employment is at an all-time high in the U.S.--some 3.8 million employed residents in the U.S. consider themselves IT professionals according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, a record high--and is expected to climb even higher--computer and mathematical sciences jobs expected to grow faster than any other professional occupation through 2016, nearly a 25 percent increase--there are those that work in the field that no longer think it's all it's cracked up to be."
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An interesting article. I wish it had more details on ways that people forced out of the IT business can leverage their experience into other fields because I believe that the BLS has it backwards, that IT workers are the steelworkers of the 21st century and instead of a 25% increase we will instead see about 1/3 of US IT jobs for Americans disappear over the next few years and replaced by H1B and L1 visa holders, automation, outsourcing/off-shoring and through company down sizings, closings and mergers/consolidations.