Job Market in Programming

I just recently started programming, and I've found I have a knack for it.

Being as I'm going into college, and chosing a major, I just thought I'd ask what the job market for programming was like.  I mean, are programmers in demand enough that I'll never be out of a job, or is finding a job difficult? Is it a good choice of major?  How much is the salary usually for a good C/C++ programmer?

CS guy here.  Beware the people telling you to get an IT/IS degree.  HR has the relatively dim idea that CS can apply to any part of the IT/IS spectrum (true, but same can be said of IT/IS degree holders).  On the other hand, CS will force you to do some thinking and learn concepts that IT/IS people may never learn, and you can see some real-world benefit from this (e.g. I understand how indexes are implemented in DB2 and can pick them effectively, but my 10+ year veteran coworker does not, although his reasoning skills relational-wise are sharp as hell).

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Serializable denotes that a class is safe to persist.  That's why it has no methods.  Back when it was created, Java did not have annotations.

The reason for its existence is simple; some things (e.g. system resources) cannot be persisted.  For example, a file handle, a network socket, etc.  Their state cannot be encoded and later decoded and still work just as before.

I'll tell the truth, I can't wait for CS 101 and Software Engineering 101 guys to clear out of /prog/.