Yeah, I didn't necessarily mean you you; just general advice to anybody in IT. :-) > it's starting to look like I may not be needed on the bleeding edge at all

Yeah, I didn't necessarily mean you you; just general advice to anybody in IT. :-) > it's starting to look like I may not be needed on the bleeding edge at all. If it's any consolation I'm pretty sure this has been a theme of worry for hundreds of years, if not since the beginning of technology. Thankfully humans are extraordinarily adaptable (and bad at future prediction) so a combination of evolving our skills and failed promises means there's probably going to be a lot of work for us to do for a very long time. > I'm probably not needed as much anymore. I think this too is just part of successfully doing your job. And getting old. Hopefully you get to move on to new things as you hand off or automate the old. And then someday you realize that the twenty/thirty-somethings are really sharp and maybe woodworking ain't so bad after all. :-p