As he posits some may conclude, it does just read like bitter sour grapes...yet I've been professionally programming since 1995. Is someone casting their own lot as the lot of the world?

http://www.theonion.com/articles/sociologist-considers-own-b...

By and large I think having demonstrated skills in software development (and truthfully this means less that you can point to years of experience -- which may be 1 year of experience 20 times, or 20 years of experience -- or pieces of paper and demand respect) is just enormously powerful right now. I am incredibly, enormously grateful for the position I am in, and that my aptitudes as a child happened to bring me into the fold of something that ended up being one of the few careers where you can write your own meal ticket.