[AChimp]

Don't lecture me on the effects of outsourcing. I'm 3/4 of the way to an honours computer science degree. Lots of IT-related jobs are being moved to Asia and India.

But you know what? The kinds of jobs that are being moved there are the grunt work. Let them slave away coding routine applications. Eliminating those kinds of jobs only opens the door for NEW types of jobs here for developing new ideas and new innovations. The only catch is that you have to be willing to adapt, change and learn new skills for the rest of your career.

The IT jobs that are being outsourced don't belong to nerds. They belong to the thousands of people who flocked to the industry with huge cartoon dollar signs in their eyes, all of them taking a 20-day night school course in web design and reading MS Word for Dummies. The nerds own the companies or work in R&D.