Sam

U.S.

former "old" IT worker

Students are researching careers and are finding out from people that they know in the industry the truth about this field. They are also hearing from students about to graduate about how rare actual job offers are.
With the current trend of constant cost
cutting, downsourcing and offshoring of anything IT related, as a potential
student looking at careers, why would anyone want to go into IT? Other careers
are more stable, with a higher likelyhood of making it to retirement. There are
too many actual examples of I.T. workers having their jobs churned. Upon finding
another job, they find that the pay offered is below a "living wage". For the older
worker, they eventually find out that they are "too old", if they get any response at all.