Believe the Occupational Outlook Handbook?

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/2120238

I read something like this about the industry, and it seems to just leave me more confused. Differing views of "the industry is dead" or "no it isn't as long as you're good". Pointy-haired bosses and management shitting all over technical staff.

What do you think, /prog/? Is the CompSci field dead, or is it still good to go into? How "good" do you have to be, exactly? What fields are actually still "safe" from outsourcing, which might still be fun (or at least easy)?

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Who? The people at my company? The people who host our server? The people we sell to? Some of these people yes. But even after a few months there I haven't come into contact with anyone who was competent. That includes people who work for our competitors as well. From what I can tell, unless the person is writing compilers for Intel or something on that level they only know how to do repetitive tasks that involve zero thought. If they have to do anything else it takes them an ungodly amount of time to figure it out and even then it will be a shit solution.

I've seen CS senior projects on web sites. And they were worse than the ones I saw people make in high school. Granted it's not the ivy leagues but its not some tech/community college. These people are getting CS degrees. They don't know anything. The tech field is filled with incompetent people.

Main point: If the op is even remotely competent and enjoys tech jobs then CS is still a perfectly fine major.