your job is a fashion trend (Score 2, Insightful)

UML, EJBs, SOAP, XML, all fashion trends, you say? This may be true, but take a look at job advertisements in the software development field... a lot of them require that you know wonderful things like UML, EJBs, SOAP, XML, etc. This is why I quit my very well paying software development job and went back to school to pursue graduate studies. I realized my job was based on nothing more than fashion trends. It was just the same old stuff being rehashed and remarketed in a different way. In grad school, on the other hand, I get to explore problems from the perspective of real research and development, instead of being constrained by a bunch of marketing drones insisting that we include every latest piece of technology possible to make our product seem "cutting edge."