The demand for IT professionals is extremely large currently but it may not last forever. The government, military and large corporations are spending a lot on IT right now. Why you might ask?

Well, the government is spending due to organizing its agencies to work better together. The military is spending on Net-Centric Warfare to protect the American People. Corporations are spending in order to comply with ridiculous over regulation due to the insanity of brain-dead bureaucrats in regulatory bodies.

In the future it is obvious that the pressure of the business community to alleviate some of the this over regulation will take place. The government will have to stop wasting Taxpayers monies some day, this over spending and spend thrift format cannot continue. The military will eventually achieve its objectives for net-centric warfare. As each of these interconnected objectives occur there will be a shifting of where the IT jobs are.

Replacing your high-paying IT job may not be as easy in the future as it would be today. In fact it might mean up rooting yourself and family and moving to another area if you wish to continue in your expertise in the IT field.

We will continue to see shifts in this area. And as the Washington DC area receives less money into their local economies due to government IT spending we will see another repeat of the Silicon Valley bubble burst and those in the industry need to understand of this potential future. Consider all this in 2006.