Besides the weird age comment, I also thought it odd how an "IT engineer" (is that what guys in the IT support business are calling themselves these days?) is t

Besides the weird age comment, I also thought it odd how an "IT engineer" (is that what guys in the IT support business are calling themselves these days?) is trotted out as a member of the "tech industry" whose life isn't joy and might identify with the OWS people. (Personally I consider the "tech industry" to be tech companies and their most important employees, aka smart CEOs, programmers, good designers, engineers, and inventors (sure I'm leaving some out). (Sometimes all being one person.)) The startup I'm at doesn't need "IT engineers", it needs "designgineers" just like almost everyone else. Cisco laid off some thousands of people, but who were those people? Turns out mostly management. And according to the linked article about a third of them still got an early retirement. So in general I agree with the article's main point that it's a profession bubble, not a geographical bubble, but I thought the attempts at saying "but you don't even really have a bubble from these complaints, because of layoff counts and this guy I talked to!" pretty weak.