Reply #35: This probably sounds corny and cliched but... [View All]

[nick303]

Find something that you are interested in and then find out as much as you can about it. Keep expected income on the back burner. Do not try to guess what the upcoming trends are, as we have seen they are just that--trends, whose coming and going seem to be happening at an accelerating pace.

So to reiterate I'd recommend finding something you are passionate about and then become an expert on it, and make some connections in the field. A number of people in this thread have lamented the "IT crash". Guess what? I work in IT and I'm still employed. In fact I could probably find another company tomorrow to jump to and get a 20-30% raise. Why am I so lucky? I don't really know, but I can tell you that I didn't decide to study this field because an article in People magazine told me that computers were the "next big thing".