Comment I hope things change before I die (Score 1) 379
Starting in 2000/2001 (outsourcing) the landscape changed, and development projects became very difficult to find. I had thought there would always be work for good people, and I thought I was one of them. Little did I know how little management cared for the retained wisdom of the more experienced software engineers. There are lots of young programmers around, but a commitment to larger practices was what made software engineers. I think it is a terrible waste that America has so many experienced software people flipping burgers or unemployed when we need so desperately to compete internationally.