>I thought it was a phenomena limited to Silicon Valley until I saw some national news reports. A group of kids about to graduate from college were hired my .COM companies on the east coast. Not one had a degree related to computer science. The kid with the marketing degree said he was hired as a DBA, at $120,000 a year, but knew nothing about the subject.

Hi Tom - Just in the Post newspaper here is an article about how those same $120K, fresh-from-college kids are now working for FREE as IT Interns, just in the hopes of eventually landing a paid position, if they do a *real good* job as Intern. (They are doing things like late-shift "busboy" to pay the rent, in the meantime).

Quite a change, eh?