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These things are cyclical. I'm a QA guy, I was the first to go (well, the first techie, sales, help desk and tech support were considered less worthy). Bean counters don't see the value in what I do. Fourtunetly, I also write code so I'm laying low hacking mediocre code until things pick up. In a year or so QA will be recognized as the most nessesary thing since breathing. You need not worry, they can't live without us, someone has to make all shit work, and they are too stupid to do it. The genie is out of the bottle and the geeks have inherited the earth. Remember the prolouge to "Brave New World"........our biggest danger is "amusing ourselves to death". They can't amuse themselvs to death without us, so we will always have work