> The funny thing is, its the opposite for the low level stuff. This was not my experience or the experience of people I know at all. I imagine that it depend

> The funny thing is, its the opposite for the low level stuff. This was not my experience or the experience of people I know at all. I imagine that it depends on which companies you work with, or what country you're in, but my experience was that low level skills often didn't give you very much in the way of extra job security, and certainly didn't save you from crunch, low pay (much lower than everywhere else in software), etc.