IT functions are increasingly being moved offshore, particularly to India, and this is not a good field to get into right now. Even network ops and sysadmins are now being offshored since remote monitoring software has improved tremendously and servers don’t need as much maintainence as they used to. In the next 5-7 yrs most IT jobs will be overseas except very few client facing roles and network techs that need to work onsite.
Tom Friedman did a piece recently on this. You can click on the link below to view it. It’s an interesting watch:
