It's that attitude of recruiters' that keeps me unemployable. The fact is that the IT world does not progress in a linear direction. It's like a puddle that gr

It's that attitude of recruiters' that keeps me unemployable. The fact is that the IT world does not progress in a linear direction. It's like a puddle that grows into multiple directions. But it is still covering most of the same spots as before. Banks still use COBOL. High-performance code is still in C or C++ with assembler (but that "C" may run on a GPU), etc.