Yeah, I look at Silicon Valley, and all I see are a bunch of webdev businesses. Sure, they dress themselves up as all kinds of different services, but ultimatel

Yeah, I look at Silicon Valley, and all I see are a bunch of webdev businesses. Sure, they dress themselves up as all kinds of different services, but ultimately most of the sweng jobs are webdev jobs. It makes me want to run the other direction, because the idea of doing webdev for a living makes me want to smash my fingers with a hammer. On the other hand, where I live, in North Texas, the bulk of the tech industry here is telecom. Telecom work is far more interesting to me than webdev, and honestly if I ever move out of town, I'm going to be very sad that there won't be as many telecom jobs. And I sure as hell wouldn't ever move to SV. On top of the work itself, I also find that I prefer the corporate cultures of enterprise B2B telecoms to webdev-centric startups. Going back to a B2B telecom after spending a few years working at other companies (first an abusive startup, then an academia-centric defense contractor) felt like coming home, and now that I'm home I don't ever want to leave the industry again.