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I attended a seminar which listed the following 10 skill sets which will show relatively high demand for at least the next five years. Most municipalities offer some sort of training at either a reasonable cost or free. Now might be the time to look into these.

#1: Voice over IP
Many companies and consumers are already using VoIP for telephone services due to cost and convenience factors.​


#2: Unified communications
Along with the growing popularity of VoIP, the concept of unified communications — the convergence of different communications technologies, such as e-mail, voicemail, text messaging, and fax — looks to be the wave of the future.​


#3: Hybrid networks
The day of the all-Windows or all-UNIX network is already past, and networks are likely to grow more, rather than less hybridized in the future.​


#4: Wireless technology​

Wireless networking is still in its infancy in the enterprise.

#5: Remote user support
The trend is toward more employees working off-site: executives taking their laptops on the road, telecommuters working from home at least a few days per week, personnel in the field connecting back to the LAN, and so forth. The IT staff will need to be able to support these remote users while maintaining the security of the internal network.​


#6: Mobile user support
Cell phones, Blackberries, and other ultra-portable devices are becoming ubiquitous and will likely grow more sophisticated in the future.​


#7: Software as a service
Web 2.0, the next generation of the Internet, is all about SaaS, or Software as a Service. SaaS involves delivering applications over the Web, rather than installing those applications on individual users' machines.​


#8: Virtualization
Virtualization has been around for a while, but now, with Microsoft heavily investing in the technology with its Windows hypervisor (Viridian), which will run on Windows Server 2008, VMWare offering VMWare Server for free, and Red Hat and SuSE planning to include Xen hypervisor technology in the next versions of their server products, we can expect the concept of virtual machines to go to a whole new level in the next few years.​


#9: IPv6
Widespread adoption of the next generation of the Internet Protocol (IPv6) hasn't come about as quickly as originally predicted, in large part because technologies such as NAT prevented the depletion of available IP addresses from happening as soon as anticipated. However, with the number of hosts on the Internet growing steadily, the larger address space will eventually be critical to further expansion.​


#10: Security
Smart IT pros have been developing their security skills for the last several years, but the future will bring new security challenges and new security mechanisms.​


I hope this sparks some ideas which may be beneficial to one or more of you!​
 
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Another area where demand is outstripping supply is in the electric power industry. Line workers, engineers, technicians, etc. are all going to be needed as the US power grid goes through huge changes and upgrades to support electric vehicles, green energy sources, new types of load management, etc. I've seen a number of proposals lately that look great on paper, but depend on grid capacity and functionality which aren't there yet.
 
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Another area where demand is outstripping supply is in the electric power industry. Line workers, engineers, technicians, etc. are all going to be needed as the US power grid goes through huge changes and upgrades to support electric vehicles, green energy sources, new types of load management, etc. I've seen a number of proposals lately that look great on paper, but depend on grid capacity and functionality which aren't there yet.
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I did some electrical work once... I had curly hair for days... :rolleyes::biggrin:
 
Those are all very good jobs, and the nice thing as most of them are hands on and cannot be shipped out to india or the like.

Or you could just work for the guberment like me. Although I'm not so certain as I once was of job security. At least we aren't California and writing IOUs for bills due.
 
Or you could just work for the guberment like me. Although I'm not so certain as I once was of job security. At least we aren't California and writing IOUs for bills due.
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Lol, Ohio is right behind it. I may be out of my state job soon since they would rather layoff 10,000 employees then raise taxes and risk not getting re-elected.
 
Retired from IT in 2007 ...2 months before the market went into the tank. Just started looking at job postings and now find that 25 years of ITexperiance is almost as valued as a Commodore 64.
 
I work in IT for a big blue company. IT used to be great. That was until they discovered that TCP/IP packets made accessible billions of disadvantaged people from all over the world who could be trained in IT and would be willing to work remotely for a fraction of what US workers are paid.

The big challenge of the century is just how to train them all fast enough to replace all the highly paid US IT workers with cheap offshore replacements. If they could, they would move ALL of it right now.

I made good money off of IT. But the party is coming to an end soon. Looking for work over the next 50 years??? Make certain that the job requires LOCAL PRESENCE. Then you may have some security. You will have none in IT.

Sorry to break the IT bubble.
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Very informative Lou, as an electronics technician I have seen the repair trade go out the window, most people prefer to throw away and get a new one.
As for going wireless, I recognize that is the way things are going-BUT- I personally have GREAT reservation and concern about that, my pesonal belief based on years of working with electronics, is that there is too much radiation as it is, I dread mobile phones-I will use them sparingly as a very useful tool, but in my heart I know that there is too much powerful radiation too close to the head.
Meanwhile we will steam ahead and ignore truthful warnings, or pay some professional to say it is all ok, but like cigarettes in the early days, there was divided opinion as to the harm they caused, but, only because the truth was supressed. Amos
Sorry Lou, you pressed the correct button to get me going, Amos
 
CAD Draftsman are in very low demand around here. I've been looking for a new job since being laid off, due to lack of company sales, back in Feb. I've only found three or four posting since then. I need to be an engineer!
 
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