The Five Biggest Worries Facing IT Pros

Offshoring Is Not Going Away

No matter how many widely read stories crop up in which CIOs confess "outsourcing didn't work for me," the trend toward the commoditizing of IT and development work, and sending it overseas to save money, shows little sign of abating. Who is next? IT workers worry every day.

IT Shortage? Depends on What You Do

Is there a shortage of IT professionals? Is there not? It depends on who you talk to. Yet if you speak to enough people, one message becomes clear: There is a shortage, but it's of workers with the most highly sought-after skill sets. Everyone else is having a harder time finding work.

A Recession May Be Looming

Just about every person not living under a rock has watched the writing appearing on the walls: Housing prices are falling into a crisis zone. The credit market is collapsing. The Fed even cut the discount rate. It could only be a matter of time before this recession takes its toll on IT workers, a population still scarred from the dot-com bust.

Jobs Are Getting Harder

As user technology advances by leaps and bounds, logic stands that this would make the jobs of IT professionals easier as well. In reality, this is not the case: For IT pros, it's really more security risks, more demands on their time and more to worry about.

The Shine Is Off the Apple

If the dot-com bust was the first nail in the IT work force's coffin and offshore outsourcing the second, the decline in student enrollments in computer science programs and a dearth of qualified candidates in specific skill areas may just be the last. Worse yet, many IT professionals admit that they themselves don't feel comfortable ushering their own children down a career path so fraught with land mines.

IT工作者五个最大的担忧

 出国工作。你已经听到过很多次你的CIO对派出国的人这样说：“你出国并不是给我工作……”实际上离开家和故土的感觉不好受，再派到非洲那些艾滋泛滥而又极度贫穷的地方，你能做的只有向上帝祈祷了。

IT工作者短缺？看你能干什么了。IT工作者短缺？不短缺？看你问谁了，不过如果你问足够多的人你会发现：存在短缺，不过吃香的只是高水平技能掌握者。其余的人找工作都存在困难。

行业危机。房价进入危机地带、信贷市场混乱……所以IT出现危机只是时间问题，到时受害的只能是IT工作者了。

工作越来越难。技术和工艺飞速发展，按理说IT工作者的工作应该越来越简单，实际并非如此。对IT工作者而言，这反而意味着更多的安全问题要解决、更过的用户需求……

IT职业光芒不再。如果说第一次互联网泡沫是IT工作者的第一担忧，被派出国第二，高水平技能掌握者的短缺是第三，工作以来越难。那么还有更严重的担忧，那就是很多IT工作者承认以前的职业光芒不再，他们也不愿意自己的子女走他们的职业路。