Tom,

I believe the reason is somehow different, and I'll tell you a story:

Back in 1993 I was talking to a guy who worked as on a ship as radio operator (you know this job - telegraph or so). He told me "my job can't dissapear, because a vessel will always need someone to keep it in touch with the land". Yeah, right. 2 years later if I'd want to talk with the ship's captain, I'd simply dial his phone number. So much with that job.

Second: nowadays it's a completely different situation than in 90. At that time you can count the programmers on the fingers of the both hands. Now the number is at least 10 times bigger. Hence the "inflation".

My 2c



>Tracy;
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>I remember the job fairs in Silicon Valley in early April 2000. At that job fair (there was one a week) there were over 1000 programming jobs – for Java! There was one job for VB and one for NT 4.0.
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>Today, you cannot find the VB or NT positions being advertised or job fairs for that matter. They do have job fairs for medical, and clerical staff though.
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>Should the economy pick up the question will be where IT and programming specifically, will be positioned. The times they are a changing – just like the song said.
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>Tom
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