>So from what I have seen first it was electronics engineering and then computer science that was the focus of the government of India.

Yep, I think you are right.

>Even today our fearless leaders (Bill Gates a few days for example) were insisting American college students should go to school for high tech. Why? I tell every young person I know do not do it! Find a real job!

Well, it *was* good for a few years, especially for the few that got rich with the stock options...but otherwise. What does one choose for a good college major these days, if you're interested in a non-academic career where the pay is good? I don't know anymore, with the tech business on the skids. We still hire plenty of math & stats grads here, and are always recruiting for more, but very few are gonna make big bucks in those fields, even with PhDs.

>Consider yourself as if you are nothing more than a car or truck on the manufacturing line. When your moments on the production line are over then what? It can be very lonely at the end of the line!

I think my sister, who is quite a good techie, has the right idea. She moved her family from CA to a very small town in Idaho a few years ago, then went through a year or two of rather hard times. But they didn't quit, eventually bought a house, a grain-feed store, and she became an "eBay Queen" (one of those Power Sellers, makes real money at it, buying up books, antiques, etc., at small-town auctions and garage sales). I'm a little envious, actually...