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Career Shift Often Means Drop in Living Standards

• jswinghammer 16y ago
  Well that's been true for a lot of people. The inflation driven boom drove up the prices of a lot of things including labor. Prices need to come back down. That said if suddenly no one wanted programmers I'd be in a lot of trouble :)
• jerf 16y ago
  "Duh". If there was a career shift before the recession or indeed at any time that they could easily make to a higher living standard, they would have done that. And then in the recession, that would be the baseline we were measuring from. In fact it seems to me the recession dominates here, not the question of career shifts. In non-recession times career shifts will be made to raise living standards and you could write the complementary article. I'm not sure what's "news" here.