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Originally Posted by Amnorix
1. the number of skilled laborers coming into the country is limited.
2. this would be a skilled field
3. there is an NSA certification of some sort for this type of field. You think lots and lots of foreigners will have this certification?
4. this entire field is exploding, as hacks and viruses proliferate. Not only US government, but increasingly all types of private enterprise are being targetted.
This isn't picking fruit, or a call-center type position. While it's certainly possible that some jobs get offshored, this field is growing so rapidly that demand will greatly outpace supply. Besides, are huge U.S. companies really going to offshore THEIR IT SECURITY?!
"Let's ship our IT security jobs to China because we're worried about Chinese hackers!"
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Here's my worry - when I was in high school everyone was pushing computer science/programming degrees.
And sure, there was some sense to that, but when you're on the cutting edge of a field, you'll spend your entire career looking over your shoulder. The technology sector is terrifying because every 5 years a new brood of employees that are cheaper than you and more fully immersed in the most recent round of technology (the stuff that came AFTER the stuff you were trained on) will be unleashed.
Most of the computer science kids ended up working at Geico manning call centers. Or ended up getting shuffled into apple to work in the mall and poke away at phones all day.
Chasing the 'hot' sector strikes me as a good way to get lost in a morass. In the end, we may be heading towards that socialist utopia either way. It may become more and more difficult to distinguish yourself and as the 'traditional' jobs start to phase out, those time-tested paths to advancement are more and more archaic (y'know, paying dues and working hard).
It looks more and more to me like future success is going to be as much about blind ****ing luck as it will be skill-sets or education.