I am an IT industry vet, and I will tell you right now there are way more applicants than there are jobs.

Those phone calls from headhunters/recruiters – rest assured 99% probabilty they really don’t have a job and they will just waste your time.

I can tell from some comments above that many on this forum are newbies to IT.

Also, if you are over 40 – it’s even harder to get a decent job in IT.

IT is brutally competitive in basically all aspects and specialty fields (with the possible exception of defense companies).

If I were just starting out in my career, I would never go into IT. Especially now with offshoring and H1B’s.