[Deschodt]

Security is definitely the way to go at the moment... it's harder to offshore, like field support. Certifications are required there in general vs less so in other functions..

As a bonus, he gets to tell everyone in IT what to do and not have to do it himself, which is a sweet gig (from experience, everyone in IT is security's biatch)

That being said I am so sick of IT, it's pretty thankless in terms of hours, responsibilities, crazy short timelines for projects, project managers riding your a$$, blame ping pong, stress, but I suppose it depends on your function/manager/sector. Security again is very in demand and from what I can see if you like pointing fingers at people and make them do stuff, it's fun. There's some seriously cool tools these days for network access control or spying on employees ;-) Since I've been deploying those (for security), I would NEVER access work from my own computer, OMG....