I've noticed many threads about the "dying" IT employment in the US. It would seem that IT employment is really picking up. Slicon Valley Looks To the Over-50 Set for Expertise. "a budding trend in America's high-tech capital: Silicon Valley -- long famous for young, hard-driving engineers and brash entrepreneurs -- is becoming friendlier to over-50 workers." http://www.careerjournal.com/myc/fifty/20060222-dvorak.html?cjcontent=mail