[Dutchie987]

To ensure employment either be a specialist (so you can do something others can't), or choose an older technology that used to be popular but isn't now. Most developers will have moved on, and now you can do the thing others don't want to learn anymore.

Is it glamorous? Does it pay top dollar? No and no, but it is a very secure income.

I'm not suggesting you start doing COBOL. Think more along the line of Java, which has an enormous installed base and nobody wants to have anything to do with it if they can help it. That's an opportunity for you to step in.

Same thing for Perl, there's a lot of existing code that needs maintenance. I'm sure you can think of a few other languages and technologies that fit this category.

Best of luck!

[unsupp0rted]

All of the Eastern European IT diaspora folks in recent years are hardcore Java guys, I find.

The Western world should have no shortage of Java experts for the foreseeable future.

[dukeyukey]

There's no shortage of Java people, but somehow no shortage of Java projects either. It's the mass-employment stack.