[EroticySteve]

I feel bad for a lot of people who were sold the dream of becoming independently wealthy by going into a tech related field. I hear the commercials on the radio all of the time encouraging people to change careers to be a computer programmer, or graphic designer, or database manager or any other high tech specialty. These "schools" churn out oveeager, overpromised, underskilled people all with the expectation of earning $50 an hour straight out of school.

The reality is that companies realize that they can often get 90% of the quality for 25% of the cost, not to mention the costs saved over not having to pay benefits, taxes, insurance etc on additional employees.

Some people are indispensible and most tech companies will need good people here, but the market is flooded with people.

If you're good, you can shine in this business just as any other. But to blame competition from cheap labor alone is not a responsible stance.

Outsourcing and off-shoring are a reality and unless Foreign Trade restrictrions disable this source of free labor we're only going to see more of it.