I started my career in the eighties and it did feel rather dismal in the UK. All the interesting stuff appeared to be happening on the other side of the Atlanti

I started my career in the eighties and it did feel rather dismal in the UK. All the interesting stuff appeared to be happening on the other side of the Atlantic. There were pockets of development going on but most of the programmers I knew were writing COBOL on IBM mainframes. I remember reading an article about employment rates for different degrees. Computer science was at the bottom of the list. This is why I'm always sceptical when I hear people here talking about the current high demand for programmers carrying on forever.