When I was in school for a B.S., I settled on accounting for this very reason. There was already talk about massive outsourcing of IT and tech jobs in the late

When I was in school for a B.S., I settled on accounting for this very reason. There was already talk about massive outsourcing of IT and tech jobs in the late 90's. I was already working in the tech field before I graduated so experience was not an issue. Today it is easy to contribute to open source as well. I figured worst case is I got laid off and picked up a job as an account. If someone was going to outsource accounting, they would have done it by now. On the plus side, I've never had anyone complain about my lack of an CS or MIT degree and I'm not stumped by "business decisions" like other engineers are. Somethings actually make sense when you understand the difference between capital expense and normal expense.