Plenty of jobs await in the offing and the money keeps getting better. Co. and Job Shift. Don't get too comfortable and make the mistake of living for the moment, warns Bridges, or else you'll find yourself an IT wanderer, a well-paid hired hand roaming from assignment to assignment without direction or goals. It suggests that IT people have reached hog heaven. The assumption is if you've got basic IT skills, employers will be banging on your door.
Bridges points out two problems with that view.
The first is that you're looking at it from the very top of the economic cycle. But the economy isn't always going to be as rosy as it is today. Sitting back on your haunches can be dangerous because you're not thinking about the future. The second is that even though the job market is so good, IT is one of the fields that is most successfully outsourced. So job security can be pretty illusory.