Comment Re:Leave Tech/IT alone! (Score 1) 518
Except, those unemployed workers aren't unemployed because their skills are out of date, they're unemployed because outside IT (and a very short list of other healthy industries) there aren't any jobs. Automation, outsourcing, overseas competition aren't just IT problems. You can be as skilled and up-to-date as you want at mechanical engineering, or office management, or loan underwriting. If nobody is hiring in the first place, it doesn't matter.
The point is that there seem to be a lot of techies out there like yourself that have put a big Somebody Else's Problem Field up, and are pretending it's their innate specialness and not just dumb luck that's kept our sector employed for the last couple years. I'm not sure what we're supposed to do about it, but a little humility would be a good start.