Not a news flash: There are a lot of out-of-work IT professionals right now. It's part of a sad and broad social trend - increasingly, this is a great country in which to become wealthy, but a worse one in which to make a good living. If you're a staff-level wage earner, figure any increase in your standard of living over time is more likely to be the result of good investment planning than from salary increases Not a news flash: There are a lot of out-of-work IT professionals right now. It’s part of a sad and broad social trend – increasingly, this is a great country in which to become wealthy, but a worse one in which to make a good living.If you’re a staff-level wage earner, figure any increase in your standard of living over time is more likely to be the result of good investment planning than from salary increases. Especially in IT, wages aren’t increasing and aren’t likely to increase for professional positions due to the simple dynamics of supply and demand: With a population of more than a billion, India alone is adding an estimated zillion new programmers a year to the IT labor marketplace. And it’s hardly the only high-population Asian nation to enter the game.IT isn’t the career gold mine it used to be. The marketplace is now officially saturated. Which means you need to plan your career starting with one, simple question: What can you be so excellent at that regardless of marketplace saturation, you’ll be one of the ones who succeeds? – Bob ——– Technology Industry