Dear Bob ... I hear what you're saying about the two economies, but how does that help me? Maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way but, I need a smart person (that would be you) to help a not so smart person (that would be me) figure out where the opportunity in all this is. I want to be an optimistic person. Is the opportunity for me to move out of programming and into application modeling (I work with the cli Dear Bob …I hear what you’re saying about the two economies, but how does that help me?Maybe I’m looking at this the wrong way but, I need a smart person (that would be you) to help a not so smart person (that would be me) figure out where the opportunity in all this is. I want to be an optimistic person. Is the opportunity for me to move out of programming and into application modeling (I work with the client to build a 3-5 user version that then gets shipped to India to be made into a 300-500 user version)? Where do I go?– Searching for a pathDear Searching … Where’s the opportunity? It depends, of course, on what you want to do for a living. One of the best opportunities right now lies in the “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” arena: These really are global sourcing companies.They’re growing; join one of their U.S. subsidiaries.Whether your role is application modeling or more formal business analysis and design, it’s one place there’s some opportunity. The other is project management. A lot of companies that are sending work offshore still see the need to control the projects internally, for all the obvious reasons.There are, as you point out, always opportunities for individuals in a changing situation. From the perspective of the economy as a whole, though, the aggregate number of opportunities to make a living would appear to be shrinking.It just depends, I guess, on which end of the telescope you’re looking through. – Bob ——– Technology Industry