It's no point in working when you know your work will be thrown into the garbage pan and suffer the politics of a failing dotcom. It gets so ugly. I definately feel that way. The idea that most jobs are short-term. I work in product development, and that definitely seems to be the case.
Small companies reach the end of the road and disappear.
Big companies don't seem to be able to redeploy the people they have. I'm on my third job, probably in the second-half or later of this job's lifetime. It won't be too many more years before I hit 40, and I'm worried about having to find two jobs a decade after that, given the bias in IT hiring. Buy the book or hear the authors read excerpts at MP3.COM . Part 1 of the Netslaves 2001 Combat Manual , Negotiating Your Compensation Package, is available for Secure PDF download .