Asura.Saevel said: »
It really depends on your skill set and how good you are at selling that skill set as a solution to the problems a prospective employer is having. To "win" in the labor game you need to either be super cheap (India/China) or super high skilled.
Yep. In a lot of cases it's all about who you know, though. I got my last job because the director of the department knew me and knew how to use my skill set to his advantage. He said I'd be the last person to get laid off from the department.
Once he left, the new director was far more interested in fighting fires than improving our processes so that they didn't happen in the first place. I was screwed because the people who appreciated what I did were not the ones directly in charge of me, so I became much more expendable when a big layoff occurred.
