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New Technology in the computer industry is expanding at a rate unimagined in other disciplines. What was considered the State-of-the-Art, 10 years has now been abandoned and has been replaced with more sophisticated solutions. The computers have impacted our society to such a level that whole professions have been decimated in but a few years.

We have to look no further than our postal service which, not long ago was a core distribution system for our business and personal communications and now just manages mail when the sender can not guarantee that their clients have fully embraced email. Typing pools, which were a major mini-factory of clerks where correspondence was generated, have been replaced by a single typist, a computer and a copy machine or maybe just email.

The participants in the deployment, of the new technology, have been equally impacted by this relentless progress. A spiral of continual re-training has left many of the implementers in a cycle of being in unmanageable high-demand with the appropraite cash flow one day and back to semi-retirement and re-training the next.

There are two course of action, support workers, in this market can take.

1. Is to pick a stable technology, master it, ride it growth as long as possible and prepare for the inevitable retirement and re-training.
2. Become good at a cluster of technologies always ready drop an under-performer and be able to quickly pickup a new rising star. This may all seem very risky and not a good career for those people looking for a semblance of stability.

They are of course, correct. On the other hand, for those that are quick, smart, have carefully researched the market and have been graced with a bit of luck, fortunes can be made.