The path to success often lies in figuring out which way the wind is blowing and then turning directly into it.

Case in point: The current wisdom is that you would have to be a fool to study to be an engineer. The headlines have been flooded for years with news of layoffs in the tech sectors and the shipping of what few jobs were left overseas. More recently, the backlash against outsourcing has begun in the business press. It turns out that badly-managed outsourcing projects succeed even less that badly-managed inhouse ones do.

The other shoe of this public perception has begun to drop as well. A recent article at CNN Money CS Degrees Article describes how computer science is becoming less popular as a major for new college students. This bodes well for the few that buck this trend and go into technical fields, because they will find less competition for jobs when they do graduate.