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Originally posted by Wil Ferch
I guess I would add .....follow your heart.

Too many go in to this line of work because of the peripheral issues...( "good pay"...etc) and never truly ask themselves if they "like" what they do.

Nope, not my thing, like you said, "what I want to do" is the key

A related concern , however, is the penchant for US business going overseas to get to a qualified brain trust "cheaper" , if you end up working for a large multi-national. Russian ex-pats and people from India are hightly trained, qualified and work cheaply "over there". Tends to keep you "in check" if you start feeling too big for your britches. Even as many of thes people come here to the States, it also serves to drive salaries down, in some industries.

Wil

Yep, for a few years I worked on the Cisco TAC (technical assistance center). We took trouble calls telling people how to fix their network. Many, many friends got laid off when Cisco started outsourcing and off-shoring their stuff to India, Mexico, Costa Rica, Manila, etc...