[link|http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8280452/|Programming jobs losing luster in U.S.]
...As tens of thousands of engineering jobs migrate to developing countries, many new entrants into the U.S. work force see info tech jobs as monotonous, uncreative and easily farmed out \ufffd the equivalent of 1980s manufacturing jobs.
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U.S. graduates probably shouldn't think of computer programming or chemical engineering as long-term careers but it's "not all gloom and doom," said Albert C. Gray, executive director of the National Society of Professional Engineers.