Here's the deal.  There are at every point in time one or two "hot" skills
    that are in high demand.  These pay extremely well.  But then things
    change, and a different skill becomes the hot one.

Yeah.  There are plenty of "warm" skills that will keep you gainfully
employed at a pretty decent salary.  I've been writing computer-networking
related software since the mid-to-late 70s, and it's only been "hot"
recently.  Sometimes it's hard to get entry-level positions in such areas,
though (sometimes it's hard to find entry level positions, period.)  When
an area becomes "hot", schools churn out so many grads at such a rate that
that becomes what recruiters are looking for.


    When I started working in computers in around 1980 I wanted to do
    software but no one would hire me unless I also could do analog and
    digital design because (as one prospective employer put it) "I think
    this software thing is just a FAD!"

When I tried to do a computer network for my college EE senior design
project, I was told that it was "too much a software project."  Hah!
(laughing last, as it were...)

BillW
cisco