Technology Sectors that are Hot or Heating Up Now?

unemployedCoder-in-retraining asks: "As a recently "leisured" programmer, I'm very interested in trying to turn misfortune into opportunity. This means using this career discontinuity to bone up on the latest-n-greatest in the hot sectors of the industry, to offer a better chance of a finding another great job. Of course, then one asks: 'What's Hot?' The Telco/Switching sector seems to have flatlined (Nortel and Lucent as examples). Cable and DSL access device and service development seems to be struggling. Wireless 3G networks seem to be having a hard time in North America. And yet, we here that a recovery is underway and that the technology sector as a whole is picking up again. So I ask you: 'Where?' In what sectors? What are the most important new technologies to learn to enhance employability? Somewhere, somebody is hiring or will be soon. What do I and other victims of the slowdown have to know to 'get back in the saddle' in the near future?"

Wrong Forum

[brad3378]

Sounds more like a thermodynamics problem

Try the Internet

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm hearing good things about the Web-net Intersites.

Re:Adult Industry

[PsiPsiStar]

And they are always the first ones to adopt new tech...

...especially if it vibrates.

Novely Websites, The Trend of the FUTURE....

[donnacha]

IsMyJobHotorNot.com

Re:long answer...short answer...

[ComaVN]

Look which /. subjects seem to get most attention. I consider these subjects "hot"

DON'T!!! before you know it, you'll be pouring hot grits into your widened asshole.
Oh he meant the articles... My bad.

My recommendations

[Anonymous Coward]

you should try to get a job that:

1. pays an awful lot
2. requires very little work
3. keeps you knee deep in pussy every day
4. bestows rock star status upon you
5. has a lot of perks (private jet, skybox, etc.)
6. 100% job security
7. three words: corporate blowjob girl
8. involves Linux

Take the advice of Dogbert:

[Jerf]

Ratbert: "I'm going to interview successful people and write a book of their tips. I'll start with you, Dobert."

Dogbert: "Set your alarm clock to go off every hour. Keep a big vat of 'Jell-O' by the bed. When the alarm clock goes of, stick your head in the 'Jell-O' and yell, 'Boy, I'm tired!'"

Ratbert: "Thanks!"

Dogbert (thinking): "Beware the advice of successful people; they do not seek company."

Seven Years of Highly Defective People, p. 137.

Copy protection

[jdh28]

Copy protection seems to be a growth industry at the moment.

john

One word, Benjamin...

[DEBEDb]

Plastics.

Opportunities...

[Anonymous Coward]

I heard the unemployment office was looking for bright talented software engineers to answer phones all day... seems they needed someone who spoke the same language as the guy at the other end of the phone.

Re:AI

[jesser]

Where I'm working (large financial institution) they're starting to look into AI as a means of predicting market movement and trends.

If your AI predicts that AI is the hot field for the next few years, do you trust it?

Re:pornography

[mickwd]

"No my friends, the money is in the back end"

No wonder they call it dirty money.

Best job security

[Tablizer]

My grandfather once told me:

"Be an undertaker, kid. No matter how bad things get, you will always have customers."

Re:pornography

[dubl-u]

But that episode didn't air until 1998. Clearly they stole it from here:

Step 1: Get market share
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!!

Which was the business plan of 92% of VC-funded internet companies starting in 1996.